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Livingston’s music is the sound of reality and fiction colliding. The 22-year-old singer/songwriter and producer from Denton, Texas would spend much of his isolated youth honing in his passion for music to escape his anxiety. The sonic world he created pairs deeply personal, intimate, emotional lyrics and melodies alongside larger-than-life arrangements, production and musical layers. 

Having reclaimed his independence from a major record label one year ago, Livingston has been defining his world one song at a time, which has been building momentum exponentially across socials, streaming, and with true fan conversion. 2025 is off to a very exciting and impactful pace for Livingston, and isn’t slowing down any time soon.

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23-year-old Glasgow-based singer/songwriter recently featured on BBC Radio Scotland, STV, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday & The Sun.

"His prodigious talent is clear and unambiguous: an extraordinary voice that ranges from the crunch of steps on a pebbly British beach to a soaring heavenly and slightly whiskey-soaked angel’s falsetto. Kelly’s guitar playing, augmented by what sounds like an entire gospel choir, is a suitable restrained bedrock to his alt. bluesy sound" 
Arun Kendall, Backseat Mafia

"Overall it’s an impressive debut, which should pave the way to summer festival slots and provide a taste of the album scheduled for the end of the year"
Olaf Furniss & Derick MacKinnon, Scotland On Sunday/The Scotsman

"Hugh Kelly leaps out of the speakers with a tone that growls with the gravitas of life experience, reminiscent of Leonard Cohen or the late Joe Cocker" 
Flo, Angry Baby

"Credit is surely due for the roundedness that he brings so early in what is set to be an illustrious career"
Jamie MacDonald, 7ahead Music

"Hugh Kelly comes from Edinburgh and his style shifts between bluesy and soulful, and he possesses a vocal delivery reminiscent of Paulo Nutini and John Martyn" 
Ola Szmidt, Fresh On The Net

Once transmitted through speakers and into the airwaves, music belongs to the people. The audience ascribes meaning and significance to songs and ultimately absorbs them for life.

By the same token, SIX60 belong to listeners. The history-making award-winning New Zealand quintet—Matiu Walters [vocals, guitar], Marlon Gerbes [keyboard], Ji Fraser [lead guitar], Chris Mac [bass], and Eli Paewai [drums]—stir rock, reggae, funk, and pop together with a twist of kiwi roots music and Maori instrumentation. Invoking this spirit and Kiwi roots, their latest music and next evolution showcases traditional Maori instruments such as Pūtātara and Pūkāe (stone and long trumpets), Bone Kōauao (Bone Flute), and Karanga Weka (Stone Flute). “We want to take our Maori culture and put it into a mainstream radio world,” exclaims Matiu. “There are only a handful of people in the world who can play these instruments, and we felt getting them into a mainstream album could give them a chance to stay alive.”
Over a decade before breaking records and selling out stadiums back home or signing to Epic Records stateside, the boys then welcomed the world into their musical ecosystem and set a career precedent in 2008 while still students.

“At University of Otago, we shared a flat at 660 Castle Street in Dunedin, New Zealand,” recalls Matiu. “We originally didn’t name the band. Instead, our first college fans gave the band the name by calling us the ‘SIX60 Boys,’ which evolved into SIX60. We adopted this philosophy into our albums. The fans add the final touches and have naming rights over things we do. The songs aren’t done until the audience has them. So, the album doesn’t really have a spirit or a name until the crowd consumes it.”

As such, SIX60 engender a rare level of devotion from fans, bordering on downright phenomenal. The group’s 2011 full-length, SIX60 (I. The Gold Album), bowed at #1 on the charts in New Zealand and eventually went septuple-platinum. SIX60 (II. The Colours Album). saw them reclaim the top spot on the charts in 2015 and go quintuple-platinum. To date, New Zealand single sales exceed 1 million as global streams surpass 200 million and counting. At the 2018 NZ Music Awards, they garnered “Best Group” in addition to five other honors.

A year later, they made history. Performing their biggest show to date, they sold out Western Springs Stadium in New Zealand and became “the first New Zealand Act to Sell 50,000 Tickets to a Show at the Stadium” (They repeated the same feat for 2020!). The gig proved to be a major milestone both professionally and musically.

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