Blake Lewis

Musician, Producer, Songwriter, Beat Boxer, Teaching Artist

Blake Lewis first came to national attention as one of the most unique contestants ever to compete on American Idol, and long before that, as a teenager, he was well-known as “Bshorty” in Seattle’s, hip-hop, a cappella and rave scenes. But with the release of his ambitious and completely independent fourth album, Wanderlust Unknown, Blake is taking things to a whole new level.

The follow-up to the critically acclaimed Audio Day Dream (which sold 350,000 copies and spawned the top 40 single “Break Anotha”) and Heartbreak on Vinyl (the title track of which went to #1 twice on Billboard’s dance charts), Wanderlust Unknown is “fun, jazzy, and light hearted. I’d call it ‘vibey,'” says Blake. “Across the album, I juxtapose so many different styles of music. It’s a super fun album, and there’s my pop feel that I can’t escape LOL. “

Using Blake’s own painstakingly handcrafted library of sampled mouth sounds (“beatboxing, sound effects, vocal scratching, the works”) as a foundation, Wanderlust Unknown runs the gamut from the almost Big Band sound of “Pot of Gold”, to the horn-laden funky-freshness of “Disco in Space,” from the sexy slow-jam “All Of The Above” to the poignant life-on-the-fringe cautionary tale “This Lonely Road” featuring Elliott Yamin.