Oliver Garcia, also known as Hotllywood, moved to New York City from the Dominican Republic at the age of 16. To help sustain his family, Oliver worked a variety of odd jobs all over New York but always came back to music in his free time. Oliver’s fiery personality and thick Dominican accent earned him the name Hotllywood. At the time where big names like Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon dominated the radio airwaves, 15 year old Hotllywood would listen to beats and instrumentals while writing music during his commutes to school and work.

Hotllywood’s pursuit of a musical career led him to Until Forever Free Records, an independent music collective based out of NYC focused on experience of inner city struggle. At the moment, his music and lyrics cater to a mature audience but is working to evolve his craft to cross all age, cultural, and social boundaries. Hotllywood views music as more than a creative expression; it is a vehicle to improve his quality of life. This approach includes Hotllywood’s exploration of therapeutic benefits of soundwaves. Hotllywood is currently featured on the song TIKTOK alongside labelmates Davinci and Nexiio and will be releasing a new project soon.

The musical career of Nexiio Kappa, also known as Edickson Dominguez, came at a pivotal moment in his teenage years. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York, Edickson has constantly shifted and overlapped between the worlds of English and Spanish music. From a young age Edickson channeled his passion for music through freestyle with friends. On August 1, 2018 Edickson was arrested by federal police in New York and was placed under house arrest shortly after. Though negative at the time, house arrest became a blessing in disguise that would force Nexiio into his musical destiny. With endless freetime and no distractions, Nexiio focused on his music and began to attend studio sessions with other local artists.

One of his first studio sessions in an NYC apartment, Nexiio recalls the overwhelming reaction from his peers praising his talent for the first time. It would be in this moment he recognized absolute and pure love in music. Currently involved with Until Forever Free Records, Nexiio is currently working on a variety of new projects releasing in the near future. Remaining genuine to the roots of drill, Nexiio’s music tells explicit stories of his experiences and of others to the deep background beats that are characteristic of drill music. Nexiio Kappa will be one of the names at the front wave of bridging latin drill music into the mainstream.

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