Ruel

Ruel was born on October 29, 2002 in the town of Isleworth in the United Kingdom to a Dutch-born, New Zealand-raised father and a British mother. He spent his early childhood in Isleworth before relocating with his family to Sydney, Australia. He has two sisters one of whose name is Coco.

He became passionate about music at an early age and started playing the guitar when he was eight years old.

When Ruel was twelve he penned down his first song. During that time his father Ralph who operates a Sydney based ad agency was working with Melbourne DJ and artist-manager Nate Flagrant on a campaign. Ralph played a demo of Ruel performing on the song ‘Let It Go’ by James Bay to Flagrant.

Fascinated by performance of the 12 year old boy, Flagrant sent the demo to producer and artist Mark Landon who is more famous by his stage name M-Phazes.

After hearing the demo recording, the formerly Melbourne and presently Los Angeles, California, based producer was highly impressed by this unknown kid including his tonal quality and singing style. M-Phazes mentioned that he lost his mind hearing the voice of Ruel. From that time onwards M-Phazes and Flagrant has gradually trained the budding talent including in vocals, recording and song writing.

Ruel came up with his first single ‘Golden Years’ in collaboration with M-Phazes in April 2017. M-Phazes contributed as artist, writer and producer of the single that released through M-Phazes Productions Pty. Ltd. and garnered Ruel initial recognition.

His live radio debut performance happened in June 2017 when he performed on the single ‘Weathered’ by British singer and songwriter Jack Garratt on a weekly segment of the Australian radio station Triple J called ‘Like a Version’. With this he became the youngest performer ever to feature on the segment. Within 48 hours the video amassed around half a million video views gaining Ruel decent attention.