Daniel Caesar

Daniel Caesar's real name is Ashton Dumar Norwill Simmonds, and he was born on April 5, 1995, in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, though he was raised in Oshawa. He is of Bajan and Jamaican descent. He is the second eldest of four children to his mother Hollace Burnett-Simmonds and father Norwill Simmonds, a gospel singer who released his first album as a high school student in Jamaica. Caesar attended the Seventh-day Adventist Church and private school in Oshawa. Caesar grew up in church, singing before his father's congregation in Oshawa, and was raised listening to soul and gospel delivered through musicality and religion. At the age of 17, Caesar was kicked out of the house after a fight with his father on the weekend of his high school graduation; he was briefly homeless during this time. He crashed on friends' couches after late-night dishwashing shifts most nights, but at least once spent the night sleeping in Trinity Bellwoods Park when he had nowhere else to go. Caesar's stage name derives from a combination of the Roman dictator Julius Caesar and the biblical figure Daniel, and his music draws from his childhood experiences and integrates them with R&B and electronics, while his lyrics explore subjects of religion, philosophy and unrequited love. Caesar works in close collaboration with producers Matthew Burnett and Jordan Evans, with whom he co-founded his independent label, Golden Child Recordings. On March 19, 2021, Caesar appeared alongside Giveon on Justin Bieber's "Peaches" from Justice, and the track marked Caesar's first to top both the Canadian Hot 100 and the Billboard Hot 100. "Best Part" featuring H.E.R. won the Grammy for Best R&B Performance in 2019.

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