Los Angeles based singer, rapper, producer Dae Zhen is an artist from Fontana, California. The genre-bending artist first started making music seriously in 2011 out of his college dorm room, drawing inspiration from the likes of Amy Winehouse and [early] Kanye West. 
 Dae experienced some early success - being featured on the cover of NPR music, and playing numerous shows at the iconic House of Blues in LA - but he stopped making music in 2015 due to some misfortune in his personal life. 
 Dae forced his way back onto the scene in 2018 with his self-produced album, Fontana, employing his struggles with depression and self-destructive behavior as fuel for his music. Since then, Dae Zhen has been consistent with his releases having released 7 singles in 2019 and three tracks so far in 2020.