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Adrian Younge

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Biography

Adrian Younge was born on May 7, 1978, in Fontana, California. He earned a Juris Doctor degree and worked as a lawyer, law professor, and for MTV's legal department. In the late 1990s, he played bass and keyboards before experimenting with analog recordings, leading to his project Venice Dawn. His breakthrough came in 2009 with the Black Dynamite soundtrack. He later released Something About April (2011), Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics (2013), and Twelve Reasons to Die with Ghostface Killah. In 2017, he co-founded Jazz Is Dead. His 2021 album The American Negro and podcast Invisible Blackness explored systemic racism.
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