Alex Di Leo, originally from Fort Lauderdale Fl, got his start in music when his grandmother gifted him an acoustic guitar for his 10th birthday. After playing in local bands, during his high school years, he dedicated himself to refining his vision as a solo artist. Arriving in November 2016, his debut EP ‘So We Go’ landed Di Leo on the top 20 at more than 100 college radio stations across the country and also made him the first local artist to end up in rotation on Miami alternative radio station 104.3 FM The Shark. Over the coming years, he appeared at major festivals like Riptide, SunFest, supporting Barns Courtney, X Ambassadors, and then toured around the U.S. with the Pl ain White T’s and Knox Hamilton. Alex released his sophomore EP ‘Strange Open Land’ in 2018.
2019 was a nonstop whirlwind that radically altered his perspective as an artist. After moving to Nashville from his Southern Florida hometown, he found himself thrown into an endless cycle of eye-opening experiences, occasional bad choices, relationship struggles, and wild new adventures (including one massively life-changing skydiving trip). While touring around the country with artists like Max Frost and Cody Lovaas, Di Leo created a new batch of music that channels all that chaos and self-discovery into beautifully detailed yet hard-hitting pop songs, ultimately offering up his most powerful work to date with the releases of ‘Youth’ and ‘Homesick’ in 2020.
Now in 22’ and at work on his first album, Di Leo notes that all the upheaval of the past few years has brought on an intense period of personal growth. “I’m realizing now that it was important for me to go through everything that’s happened,” he points out. And as he’s gained a new level of self-understanding, Di Leo has begun following his instincts more boldly than ever—a move that profoundly impacted his artistry leading him to open for Milky Chance at BellyUp in Aspen in February and his recent singles, ‘Following Feelings’, ‘Better Place’, and ‘Call It a Night’.
Alex Di Leo’s newest release is ‘Snowing In July’.