Alex Warren

Alex Warren (born Alexander Warren Hughes, September 18, 2000, in Carlsbad, California) is an American singer-songwriter whose music draws almost entirely from the raw material of his own biography: childhood grief, homelessness, survival, and the unexpected luck of finding love.^[1]

His father died from kidney cancer when Warren was nine years old. The elder Warren had given him his first Fender guitar and introduced him to Coldplay, Linkin Park, and Train, formative influences whose melodic directness left a lasting imprint on his songwriting.^[1] Warren began making YouTube videos at age ten, part of an early drive to process the world through creative output. He started posting skateboarding content on Instagram in 2015 and steadily built a following across platforms.

His teenage years brought further hardship. His mother struggled with alcoholism, and at 18 he was effectively forced from the family home, spending a period of homelessness sleeping in friends' cars.^[1] During this time he met Kouvr Annon through Snapchat; she moved into the car with him. They married in June 2024 and have been a central subject of his music ever since.

Warren became a co-founding member of the Hype House, the Los Angeles TikTok creator collective, in November 2019, and starred in the Netflix reality series about the group when it premiered in January 2022.^[1] He signed to Atlantic Records in 2022 and shifted his focus to music, releasing early singles including 'One More I Love You' (written beginning at age 13, about his father's death) and 'Screaming Underwater.'

His commercial breakthrough came in early 2025 with 'Ordinary,' which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and reached number one in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.^[2] His debut album 'You'll Be Alright, Kid' followed in July 2025, featuring 21 tracks and collaborations with Jelly Roll and ROSE. By early 2026, Warren had earned a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist and performed at the Grammy Awards ceremony. His lead single for his forthcoming third album, 'Fever Dream,' released February 26, 2026, continued his trajectory as one of the defining new voices in contemporary pop.