Vince Aung By Sarina Bhutani With over a billion streams on Spotify, over a million followers on Instagram, and an already sold-out international tour on the horizon, Keshi has all the characteristics of a star. But as the 27-year-old settles into a late-night Zoom call, dressed casually in a red hoodie and complementary blue Yankees cap, he seems more like the boy next door than music’s next big thing. Even on the brink of a breakthrough, his demeanor is confident yet somehow gentle, much like his viral music. Before he was Keshi, he was Casey Luong, a son born to two Vietnamese immigrants in a suburb of Houston, Texas. That’s why, with his debut album Gabriel (out today, March 25), Keshi is living his own American dream. Recorded between Los Angeles and Houston over seven months, the 12-track record is what he describes as his “life’s greatest achievement.” Keith OshiroThough he grew up listening to All Time Low and Never Shout Never, the musical suggestions of the girls on whom he had crushes, it was a combination of puberty, his grandfather’s old guitar, and a Pandora station that stirred his musical awakenin… Click below to read the full story from MTV News
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