Chezile was homeless at the start of 2024, moving between motels and Airbnbs in Los Angeles, when 'Beanie' — a psych-pop single he'd released the year before — went properly viral on TikTok and took him from 0 to 1.6 million monthly listeners in under two months.
Alejandro Sanchez grew up around music anyway: his father and grandfather performed together in a mariachi band, and he'd taught himself drums by five and guitar by eleven.
He signed with Soka Talent Group that April, and singles like 'Wally' and 'Still in Love' have kept the momentum going since — a fast, genuinely dramatic reversal from sleeping in his car to 105 million streams within about a month.