Valley Boy

BIOGRAPHY

For better or for worse, Valley Boy (James Alan Ghaleb Amaradio) wants to talk about children of divorce.

Born in the San Fernando Valley, from where he takes his name, and deeply inspired by Frank Ocean’s journey from songwriter to artist, Valley Boy spent the beginning of his career lending writing and production skills to household names including Sabrina Carpenter, Troye Sivan, Dua Lipa, Joji, Chezile and others before beginning to release music of his own. A project born from a real need to perform and to share stories often too personal to be sung by other artists, Valley Boy’s music is his outlet for creative carte blanche.

He’s since toured the US and EU in support of Jeremy Zucker and Del Water Gap, has been co-signed by SZA (a fan of his song “Aloha” from his first EP), and in 2024 Valley Boy teamed up with his wife Delacey for the collab-album HONEYMOONERS, a record written and recorded while on their honeymoon in Paris.

And what comes after the honeymoon?

This year, Valley Boy will release a debut album all his own titled Children Of Divorce. As a child of divorced parents himself, he shares that the concept album, “contains true stories from real kids who grew up and some who didn’t.” Weaving together stirring vignettes from his childhood and of the people who made it up, Valley Boy agonizes over each detail to bring these “real kids” to life with personal morsels that feel like the kinds of things that can only be uncovered through years of therapy and self-discovery. The upcoming album has jagged edges, but just like in life, the feathery moments in between make it all the more worth the journey.