Biography
The modern generation of young artists becomes popular incredibly quickly. The possibilities of the Internet and social networks play a major role. The novice artist Leil Zan in the shortest possible time has gained fans thanks to the publications of its compositions on the expanses of the global network.Childhood and youth
Lil Zan - American rapper. A young man was born on September 6, 1996 in the city of Redgetds, California. The real name of the artist - Diego Leonas. On the horoscope he is Virgo. The growth of the artist is 172 cm, and the weight is 60 kg.
The family could not boast of financial stability. Most of Childhood Diego spent, living with his parents in motels rooms. He was not configured to receive education, so in the 9th grade threw school at school and loose, sitting at home. Deciding that it was time to earn, the guy began to remove the streets and received additional income from the sale of narcotic drugs.
Lil not from among people who were fond of creativity from the young age. Diego became interested in the musical direction, planning to be realized as a photographer. He took part in the promotion of his buddies engaged in rap. The guy's studio led an accident.
At one of the concerts, Diego photocamera snatched directly from the hands. To make money on the purchase of new equipment, he decided to try to write down the track. The session in the studio at that time cost $ 20, and the camera is $ 1.2 thousand. Friends supported him, assessing the potential of the artist. They started to independently post the records for SoundCloud and YouTube services. So rapper got the first fans. His debut video in the network scored more than 42 million views.
Music
Speaking about idols, Diego argues that the work of Farrell Williams and groups worked in the direction of alternative rock influenced him. In his youth, he listened to the music of the teams of Arctic Monkeys and Queens of the Stone Age, finding in her inspiration.
Scenic pseudonym Lil Zan gained thanks to the fantasy of his friends. This is a derived from the name of the drug Ksanaks, which the young man was fond of earlier. Randomly invented the nickname in the party became the name under which the young man appears in public.
Career performer began in 2016. In the fall, a debut mixture called "GitGo" came out. It entered the solo compositions and tracks recorded together with Stephen Canon. Next year, Leil Zan released the Toothache disk. After some compositions from the album have gained success, Rapper decided to continue to engage in creativity.
A video clip came to the "Betrayed" track in the summer of 2017. This hit received platinum certification from RIAA. Realizing that the musical activity has perspectives and in this area can be realized, Diego collected his own team and gave him the name "Low Gang". His partners were encouraged, Arnold Dead and Steve Canon. The first speech of Rapper took place at the Roxy Theater in October of the same year.
In one of the 1998 interviews, the artist announced to journalists about the soon out of the album "Total Xanarchy". Over the record, he worked together with colleagues, Diplo and SWAE Lee artists and planted a tour of her support in advance. In April, the disk was presented. Tickets for all concerts of the tour sold out in a matter of hours.
Musical critics unflatterily responded about "Total Xanarchy", believing that there is no lyrics in the album, and the performing manner of the artist is unconvincing. The representative of "Sad Rap", as Diego journalists call, did not want to share his emotions with the audience. The Guardian Ben Ben Beaumont-Thomas newspaper spoke out in defense of the record, assuring that she sees "Gothic sound" in it, but commented on the presence of imitation to other performers.
In 2018, Lil Zan received a nomination for the MTV Music Awards Award in the "Breakthrough of the Year" category.
Personal life
The biography of the artist, as well as the fate of adolescents from disadvantaged families, is associated with prohibited substances. Rapper openly declares that from 18 years old used a narcotic drug called Ksanaks. He is addictive, so soon Diego has a dependence that his acquaintances supported. A young man often combined the drug intake with alcohol use.
Now the rapper claims that he managed to overcome the habit. In the fall of 2018, he forced fans to worry, being in the hospital. The fans thought that prohibited drugs became the reason for this, but the Contractor referred to the abuse of snacks. Diego plans to advocate anti-drug campaigns. He participates in the program of struggle with the use of Ksanaks, opiates and other prohibited substances.
The artist shook the tragic death of Miller's poppy, who died from an overdose. Deeply impressed with this event, Lil Zan was going to stop concert activities, but then changed priorities and expressed the desire to expand the circle of interests of the field of art.
The personal life of the artist since June 2018 was connected with the singer and actress Noah Cyrus. The couple recorded the song "Live or Die". The relationship of young people stopped in August because of a careless joke of a girl. She provoked jealousy Leela under the processed photo, which Diego took seriously. Later, the rapper claimed that the chosen was not true to him.
Lil Zan now
When you first look at the artist, attention attracts the presence of tattoos on his face and other parts of the body. A young man believes that the images should be applied to noticeable places, otherwise they make no sense. The first tattoo, made on his body, became a portrait of a canister, the character of the cartoon film "Ghostly Ghosts". One of the "styled" inscriptions is devoted to Mother Diego, Candy.
Young man uses social networks. About a million folloviers are signed on the personal account of Leela in "Instagram", and thousands of people are followed by a page in Facebook.
In 2018, tweets Diego with a negative statement about the work of Tupak Shakura called a scandal in the rap community, after which the artists called him out of the way. But the young man has rehabilitated, fulfilling the composition "California love" written by Raper.
The artist prefers a free style in clothes. Before lenses of the chambers of the paparazzi, he rarely appears without a hat. From brands of clothing prefers the BEANIES line. The fans pay attention to the external similarity of Lila Zana with the actor of the series "Shamelessnniki" Itan Katkoski.
Discography
- 2016 - "CitGo"
- 2017 - "Toothache"
- 2017 - "Xanarchy"
- 2018 - "Total Xanarchy"