The Kid Laroi

The Kid Laroi, born Charlton Howard in New South Wales, Australia, strikes me as a talent who outran his own age. Still barely in his twenties, he climbed global charts by blurring the line between rap and melodic pop, pairing raw momentum with a voice that carries real ache. Signing with an American label as a teenager and landing on Billboard's 21 Under 21 list signaled that this was substance, not just hype. What I find compelling is the geography of it: an Australian artist redrawing the map of contemporary music from the southern hemisphere. I read him as a new-generation standard-bearer whose ceiling still feels far away.

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Name (English)

The Kid Laroi

Name (Japanese)

ザ・キッド・ラロイ

Reading

ざ・きっど・らろい

Born

August 17, 2003 (age 23)

Origin

Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia

Occupation

rapper / singer / songwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Goat

Awards & achievements

• 2021 Billboard 21 Under 21

• Official sitehttps://www.tkl.world/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/thekidlaroi/
• Xhttps://x.com/thekidlaroi
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Kid%20Laroi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82890761

Tags

• New South Wales
• rapper
• singer
• songwriter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.