Before being called “the coolest man in music” (The Line of Best Fit), Paul Castelluzzo was a teenager surfing the beaches of San Diego and playing bars with local jazz greats like Curtis Taylor, until Rodney Jerkins brought him to Los Angeles to perform on tracks for Britney Spears and Justin Bieber. In between driving for Lyft and serving as the music director for a Russian Pentecostal church to make ends meet, he was enlisted for Romeo Santos’ album, Golden, but soon returned home to begin his next chapter as Hether. Since then, his self-taught guitar style, songwriting talents and profound production palette have led to him working with everyone from Clairo, Dominic Fike, Remi Wolf and The Maraas to Paul McCartney, Anderson .Paak, Benny Blanco, Kali Uchis, Kenny Beats, Mac Miller, Rick Ross, Vince Staples and more who continue to discover Hether. Having already amassed millions of streams and hundreds of thousands of fans, landing music in HBO shows and scoring films, Holy Water marks both the culmination of everything Castelluzzo has experienced and accomplished, and an expansive new evolution of a project that has shaped the present and predicted the future, but remains entirely his own. Citing overlooked legends like Barney Kessel and Andrew Hill as longtime inspirations, Hether’s “Stupid Love” and “Monica” follow the recently-released “Falling For The Feeling,” each enveloping heart-wrenching emotions in an arrangement of deceptively gentle and cosmic guitar leads, pleading confessions and unpredictable symphonic ornamentations, driven forward by unshakable grooves of drums and bass. On the heels of playing Lollapalooza and Osheaga as part of Dominic Fike’s band, Hether will soon detail the live debut of Holy Water, with much more to come.
