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Birth name | Rommel Donald |
Born | Birmingham, UK |
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Years active | 2015–present |
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Rommel Donald, known by his stage name ROMderful (formerly ROM) is a British producer, DJ, and multi-instrumentalist from Birmingham. He released his debut studio album, Press L to Continue, on Same Plate/Sony in April 2019.
Rommel Donald was born and grew up in Birmingham, England. [1] As a child, he learned how to make beats and play multiple instruments, including the guitar, bass guitar, violin, and drums. [2] He was also childhood friends with fellow artist and future collaborator, KayFaraway. [1] He drew inspiration from church music, early 2000s R&B, [2] and video game soundtracks. In his teenage years, he was a member of a death metal band. [1] He would later attend university while also working on his music. During his second semester of university in 2015, however, Donald opted to drop out and focus on music full time. [2]
Donald began producing music under the stage name ROM (or R.O.M.) in 2015. [2] In late 2015, he collaborated with DEFFIE on a remix of Pharrell's " Frontin'". [3] In early 2016, he released the track "I Just Want You To Know" which sampled the Snoop Dogg song, " Beautiful". [4] In March of that year, he released a 3-track EP as part of his record label Soulection's White Label series. That collection contained the song "You Love Em" featuring Emmavie. [2] [5] Later that year, he earned a placement on the remix album for GoldLink's And After That, We Didn't Talk, reworking the track, "Late Night". [6] He also remixed tracks from Raye ("I, U, Us") [3] and Linden Jay ("Lose Again" featuring Shola Ama). [7] In December 2016, ROM released a track called "Kiss and Tell" featuring the vocals of Naji. [8]
In 2017, he adopted his current stage name, ROMderful. He also released several new tracks including "Only One" (with Tendayi) [9] and "SoReal?" (with KayFaraway). [10] Additionally, he produced the Jean Deaux record, "Wikipedia", [11] and appeared on Kitsuné's Afterwork Vol 1 compilation album with the track "BeThere4Me" (featuring KayFaraway). [12] In 2018, ROMderful continued working with Jean Deaux, producing her song "Energy" which was the lead single off her EP, Krash. [13] That year, he was also signed to Same Plate Entertainment, a joint venture label with Sony Music. [14]
In March 2019, he released a collaborative EP, Hours After Midnight, with KayFaraway. [15] The following month, he released his debut studio album, Press L to Continue, [16] on Same Plate/Sony. [1] The album was preceded by the singles "Run Tings" (with Shakka and featuring Dounia) [17] and "1 Missed Call" (featuring Dean and Tabber). [18] The album also featured guest appearances from TOBi, Jay Prince, Devin Tracy, Wade, and KayFaraway. Vocals from ROMderful himself also appeared on the album. [1] Music videos for "Run Tings" [19] and "Tired of the Games" (featuring TOBi) premiered after the album's release. [20] ROMderful also produced the Duckwrth track "KING KING" released in May 2019 [21] and the Jean Deaux track, "Anytime" (featuring Kehlani) released in June 2019. [22]
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Press L to Continue |
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PLEASE RECONNECT CONTROLLER |
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Soulection White Label – 018 |
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Hours After Midnight (with KayFaraway) |
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ICE CREAM CLONES |
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UTOPIA (with Summer Soul) |
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ICE CREAM CLONES 2 |
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Title | Year | Album |
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"Only One" (feat. Tendayi) | 2017 | Non-album single |
"BeThere4Me" (feat. KayFaraway) | Afterwork Vol 1 | |
"Run Tings" (with Shakka and feat. Dounia) | 2019 | Press L to Continue |
"1 Missed Call" (feat. Dean and Tabber) |
Song | Year | Artist | Album | Role |
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" Frontin'" (remix with DEFFIE) [3] | 2015 | Pharrell (feat. Jay-Z) | In My Mind | Remixer |
"Late Night" (remix) [6] | 2016 | GoldLink (feat. Masego) | And After That, We Didn't Talk | Remixer |
"I, U, Us" (remix) [3] | Raye | Second | Remixer | |
"Lose Again" (remix) [7] | Linden Jay (feat. Shola Ama) | Non-album single | Remixer | |
"Wikipedia" [11] | 2017 | Jean Deaux | Non-album single | Producer |
"Magic" [23] | Rayana Jay | Morning After | Producer | |
"Energy" [13] | 2018 | Jean Deaux | Krash | Producer |
"Squeeze" [24] | Lou Phelps (feat. Jahkoy) | Non-album single | Producer | |
"Anytime" [22] | 2019 | Jean Deaux (feat. Kehlani) | Empathy | Producer |
"KING KING" [21] | Duckwrth | THE FALLING MAN | Producer | |
"Online" [25] | 2020 | SIRUP | cure | Producer |
"Overnight" [25] | SIRUP | cure | Producer | |
"Sunshine" [25] | SIRUP | cure | Producer |
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