From his early roots as a social media fixture based in Australia, award-winning singer and actor Troye Sivan blossomed into an international star and LGBTQ icon with his stylish electronic dance-pop and fearless image. His debut album, 2015’s Blue Neighbourhood, introduced him to the pop mainstream, landing in the Billboard Top Ten with the singles “Wild” and “Youth.” His follow-up, 2018’s Bloom, featured his fourth Australian platinum hit, “My My My!” Sivan has also released a handful of EPs, including 2014’s TRYXE and 2015’s Wild, both of which reached number five on the Billboard 200. A fifth EP, In a Dream, arrived in 2020. Following his starring role in 2022’s Three Months, he heralded the arrival of his third album, 2023’s Something to Give Each Other, with the single “Rush.”
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1995, Sivan moved to Perth, Australia with his family when he was two years old. Home-schooled, Sivan began singing and acting at a young age, but his biggest break came when he appeared as a young Wolverine in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. A year later, he appeared in the South African film Spud. Starting in 2007, Sivan began making videos of himself singing, and uploaded them to various social media sites, eventually garnering over two million subscribers. Concurrent with his videos, he also released two independently produced EPs: 2007’s Dare to Dream and 2012’s June Haverly.
In 2013, he signed a recording contract with EMI Australia, and one year later released his third EP, TRXYE. The record hit the Top Ten in Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S. In 2015, Sivan returned with his fourth EP, WILD, which he described as an “opening installment” of the music he planned to issue in the subsequent months. WILD included a pair of feature appearances by New Zealand’s Broods and Australian rapper Tkay Maidza, and a trilogy of videos accompanied the EP.