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Steve Thomas Lacy-Moya (born May 23, 1998) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He gained recognition as the guitarist of the alternative R&B band the Internet, which he joined in 2015. His self-produced debut extended play, Steve Lacy's Demo (2017), was met with critical praise and became a sleeper hit. Lacy then guest performed alongside Frank Ocean on Tyler, the Creator's 2017 single "911 / Mr. Lonely", which received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). That year, he also co-wrote songs for artists including Solange Knowles, and Kendrick Lamar on his song "Pride".
His debut studio album, Apollo XXI (2019), earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album. That same year, he guest appeared on Vampire Weekend's single "Sunflower", as well as Calvin Harris' song "Live Without Your Love", which entered the UK Singles Chart. He signed with RCA Records to release his second studio album Gemini Rights (2022), which peaked within the top ten of the Billboard 200 chart and spawned the single "Bad Habit". The song peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100 after going viral on TikTok; it was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance, Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, while its parent album won Best Progressive R&B Album. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.
Steve Lacy's Demo was released on February 17, 2017, with Lacy once again creating most of the songs on his iPhone by producing the guitar and bass arrangements through it and singing his vocals directly into its built-in microphone. He also programmed the drum patterns in Ableton Live. That year, he also co-wrote and produced Ravyn Lenae's EP Crush, which was eventually released in February 2018. He reunited with the Internet to work on their album Hive Mind, which was released in July 2018. Lacy went on to produce for Solange Knowles, Kali Uchis on her debut album Isolation, Mac Miller on his album Swimming, and was featured on Dev Hynes' album Negro Swan.
In 2018, Lacy said that he had produced for rapper YG, and that he had begun using devices other than his phone to produce music. In March 2019, he was credited for producing on two tracks on Solange's album When I Get Home. He was also featured on the Vampire Weekend song "Sunflower" and appeared its video that same month. In April, he released the single "N Side" from his debut album Apollo XXI. He announced the release date of Apollo XXI to be on May 24, 2019. In the week of his album debut, he released two more singles, "Playground" and "Hate CD". The album was nominated for Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, Lacy's first Grammy nomination as a solo artist.
On December 4, 2020, Lacy released a compilation album of his early work titled The Lo-Fis. His single "Mercury" was released with a music video on June 16, 2022. The video featured on YouTube is about half as long as the version published on Spotify, which spans 4:58 minutes compared to the 2:30 minutes of the video. His second studio album, Gemini Rights, was released on July 15, 2022. The album spawned the single "Bad Habit", which became Lacy's first song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 after going viral on TikTok, where a snippet of the song was used as the soundtrack for over 400,000 videos on the platform. On November 5, 2022, he performed "Bad Habit" and "Helmet" on Saturday Night Live.
On January 31, 2023, AEG (Anschutz Entertainment Group) Presents announced that Lacy would be one of three headline acts at the inaugural .
On August 15, 2025, Steve Lacy returned with his first solo single in three years, "Nice Shoes". The song serves as the lead single for his upcoming third studio album titled Oh Yeah?.
| Favorite Male R&B Artist | ||||
| 2020 | Apollo XXI | |||
| 2023 | Record of the Year | "Bad Habit" | ||
| Song of the Year | ||||
| Best Pop Solo Performance | ||||
| Best Progressive R&B Album | Gemini Rights | |||
| TikTok Bop of the Year | "Bad Habit" | |||
| Best New R&B Artist | Himself | |||
| 2023 | Song of the Year | |||
| Song of the Year | "Bad Habit" | |||
| Video of the Year | ||||
| The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award | ||||
| 2023 | "Helmet" | |||
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