I always wanted to do music and record, but I never had the confidence to do it.
“Everyone at Americas showed me a lot of support. “My high school was what crafted my interest in recording,” Khalid said. I’ve been singing since I could talk correctly.”īut still, it wasn’t until moving to El Paso that he became interested in recording and writing his own music. I was raised through music, and I’ve been interested in it since I was three. “In my home, we listened to music all the time. “I feel like growing up with my mom was the foundation of my (interest in music),” Khalid said.
Khalid said life as a military kid meant moving around quite a bit and never fully knowing his place. Wolfe had her own ambitions as an R&B singer back in the 1990s, but family and career opportunities led her to the Army.Īnd if it wasn’t for his mom's fateful assignment, Khalid said, he might have never found himself artistically or personally. First Class Linda Wolfe was stationed at Fort Bliss. Khalid’s love affair with the border town didn’t begin until just before his senior year, when his mother, Sgt. I don’t feel like I’d be making the music I’m making now if I hadn’t gone there.” “The love and the friendships I made were influential. “I didn’t feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso,” Khalid said in a phone interview from his tour bus, somewhere between shows in Atlanta and New Orleans. 9 on the Billboard album chart. The now mononymous Khalid’s single Location sits at No. The El Paso transplant’s debut album, American Teen, soared to No. It's still archived on the school district's YouTube page. Just before his name is called, he flashes his trademark smile and does a little dance for the camera broadcasting the graduation live. Khalid Robinson crosses the stage at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas, to receive his diploma from Americas High.
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