Joseph Somers-Morales, aka
SoMo, is a pop vocalist from Denison, Texas. He started performing at a very young age but spent most of his childhood away from music until his early twenties, when he received a piano from his mother. He recorded a cover of
Chris Brown's "Crawl" and, in November 2009, uploaded the clip to YouTube. Its popularity encouraged him to continue uploading covers, including a medley of songs from
Drake's
Take Care released the same day as the album. On September 11, 2012 -- his birthday -- he released
My Life, a mixtape featuring some of his first originals written with Cody Tarpley. The following year he signed to Republic, which remastered and re-released
My Life.
SoMo's self-titled debut album, the majority of which was produced by
Mick Schultz (
Jeremih), was released in April 2014 and debuted at number six on the Billboard 200.
My Life II, featuring an appearance from
Trey Songz on the single "Hide & Freak," followed in September 2015. Between May 2016 and January 2017,
SoMo released three tracks -- "Control," "First," and "Play" -- that were previews of his upcoming second studio album. That album, titled
The Answers, finally arrived in March 2017. A mere six months later,
SoMo released the mixtape, My Life III, via his own SoMo, LLC imprint. Throughout 2018, he remained prolific, releasing a series of singles that later appeared on his third proper solo album, A Beautiful November, released later that year. ~ Andy Kellman