Post Malone

Austin Richard Post (born July 4, 1995), known professionally as Post Malone, is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor. His music blends various genres including pop, hip-hop, trap, country, R&B, and rock. Austin Richard Post was born on July 4, 1995, in Syracuse, New York. He was raised by his father, Richard Post, and his stepmother, Jodie. His father had been a DJ in his youth and introduced Malone to many genres of music including hip-hop, country, and rock. When Malone was nine years old, he and his family moved to Grapevine, Texas, after his father became the manager of concessions for the Dallas Cowboys football team. According to Malone, his first foray into professional music began when he played guitar in a local metalcore band. His interest in the genre persisted past this endeavor as he also auditioned as a guitarist for the Texas-based metalcore group Crown the Empire in 2010, but was rejected after his guitar strings broke during the audition. He credited his initial interest in learning guitar to the video game series Guitar Hero. Malone has expressed his affinity for alternative rock music, and appeared for a DJ set at Emo Nite in Los Angeles, California, in June 2017, playing songs by My Chemical Romance at the event. He says soon afterwards he transitioned to softer rock as well as hip-hop, before beginning to experiment on FL Studio. As of 2019, Malone resided in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, in a multimillion-dollar 12,700-square-foot (1,180 m2) home. His former home in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley was burglarized on September 1, 2018. Malone was involved in a car crash on September 8, 2018.