Z107.3  wants to take the time to give you a little more information about the artists that you hear all day, everyday on Bangor's #1 Hit Music Station.

This week we put the artist spotlight on Iann Dior.

REAL NAME: Michael Ian Olmo

BIRTHDAY: March 25, 1999

WHERE FROM:  Arecibo, Puerto Rico; Corpus Christi, Texas

MUSICAL CONNECTIONS: 24kGoldn, Lil Baby, PnB Rock, Trippie Redd, Gunna, Travis Barker, Bernard Jabs, Y2K, Machine Gun Kelly, Poorstacy, Internet Money,

TO THE POINT POINTS

  • Iann was born in Puerto Rico and moved to United States at a young age
  • The artist started creating music under a different name, Olmo
  • Iann changed his musical name from Olmo to Iann Diorr in 2019
  • Dior was discovered by music producers, Nick Mira and Taz Taylor.  They worked for the label Internet Money Records
  • Dior first started releasing music on SoundCloud
  • Dior's first big song which generated a ton of plays on SoundCloud was his song 'Emotions'
  • Another song released on Spotify was 'Gone Girl' which featured Trippie Redd and generated over 100 million plays on Spotify
  • Iann Dorr's got on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in the summer of 2020 with 24kGoldn's 'Mood' and has since peaked at #1 on the Hot 100 chart

All information obtained by Wikipedia

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