Adeem the Artist

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Adeem the Artist
Birth nameAdem Bingham
Born1988 (age 33–34)
Locust, North Carolina
OriginKnoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
GenresCountry
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter
InstrumentsVocals, guitar
Years active2002-present
LabelsIndependent

Adeem the Artist (born Adem Bingham) is an American country music singer. In 2021, they released the album Cast-Iron Pansexual.

Musical career[]

Adeem the Artist was born Adem Bingham in 1988.[1] They were born in Locust, North Carolina but when they were 12 years old, their family moved to Syracuse, New York.[2][1] When Adeem was in their 20s, they began performing on cruise ships.[3] They later moved to Knoxville, Tennessee with the intent of being a pastor, but later abandoned this plan and began recording music. In 2016, they performed tribute shows for John Prine and Joni Mitchell in Knoxville.[1]

In 2021, after releasing several independent albums on Bandcamp,[4] Adeem released the album Cast-Iron Pansexual. Adeem largely funded the album through Patreon and wrote most of its songs in 2020. They premiered its tracks on the website Audio Femme that March.[2]

Rolling Stone editors Jon Freeman and Joseph Hudak selected the title track of Cast Iron Pansexual as a "pick of the week" after the album's release, stating that the song "stakes out their place as a born Southerner armed with a radical outlook and a brain that won’t just ease up".[5] American Songwriter described Adeem as having a "scruffy timbre". The editors of this site also selected "I Wish You Would've Been a Cowboy", a response to Toby Keith's 1993 hit "Should've Been a Cowboy".[6] Adeem co-wrote the song, which is critical of Keith's patriotism, with Palestinian-American poet Summer Awad. Steve Wildsmith of The Daily Times wrote that the album had a "rich currency of exploration, past-life condemnation and present-day illumination."[3] Following the success of this album, they began touring with American Aquarium in 2021.[3]

Personal life[]

Adeem the Artist is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.[3][2] They are also pansexual and married to their wife Hannah. Adeem told The Daily Times in 2021 that some of the themes of Cast Iron Pansexual deal with their own gender and sexual identity issues, particularly since they grew up in a Christian household in the Southern United States.[3][2]

Discography[]

Albums[]

  • The Living Room Tapes (2011)
  • armour. (2012)
  • [syracuse.] (2013)
  • Kyle Adem is Dead (2016)
  • Live Recordings (2017)
  • Forgotten Songs & American Dreams (2019)
  • Cast Iron Pansexual (2021)

EPs[]

  • Beautiful Dreamer (2014)
  • The Owl (2017)
  • The Flamingo (2017)

Singles[]

  • "Sidewalk" (2015)
  • "5th Avenue Homicide" (2017)
  • "The Last Summer" (2017)
  • "Scruffy Little Christmas" (2017)
  • "Pandemic Days" (2020)
  • "Ashes in Flight" (2020)
  • "Tiger Prince of Knoxville" (2020)
  • "Asheville Blues" (2021)
  • "Merry Christmas, Urgent Care" (2021)
  • "I Wish You Would've Been a Cowboy" (2021)[7]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Adeem the Artist finds a new direction". Knoxville News Sentinel. November 16, 2016. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Jason Scott (March 2, 2021). "PREMIERE: Adeem the Artist Reclaims Identity With Cast Iron Pansexual LP". Audio Femme. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e "SHEDDING THE TRAPPINGS OF EXPECTATION: On 'Cast-Iron Pansexual,' Adeem the Artist undertakes an intensely personal journey". The Daily Times. May 26, 2021. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  4. ^ "Adeem the Artist". Bandcamp. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  5. ^ "RS Country Music Picks for the Week of March 15th". Rolling Stone Country. March 15, 2021. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  6. ^ "10 LGBTQ+ Artists You Should Know". American Songwriter. 17 June 2021. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  7. ^ "Exclusive: Adeem the Artist's Toby Keith Rebuke • Country Queer". 15 January 2021.

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