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Singer-songwriter Khalid performs during a sold-out concert Saturday at Downtown's Tricky Falls. The 18-year-old Americas Aerial alum is set to absolution his admission album, "American Teen," on March 3.(Photo: Victor Calzada/El Paso Times)Buy Photo

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May 28, 2016.

Khalid Robinson crosses the date at the Don Haskins Center to accept his authority from Americas High.

Just afore his name is called, he flashes his brand smile and does a little ball for the camera broadcasting the graduation live. It's still archived on the Socorro Independent Academy District’s YouTube page.

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Fast-forward to Feb. 4.

The now mononymous Khalid’s distinct “Location” is at No. 64 but still rising on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, and the El Paso displace is set to accomplish his aboriginal headlining — and sold-out — concert at Downtown’s Tricky Falls.

“I didn’t feel like I had a home until I confused to El Paso,” the 18-year-old singer-songwriter said in a buzz account from his bout bus, about amid shows in Atlanta and New Orleans. “The adulation and the friendships I fabricated were influential. El Paso is area I started. I don’t feel like I’d be authoritative the music I’m authoritative now if I hadn’t gone there.”

But let’s rewind a bit.

Khalid’s adulation activity with this bound boondocks didn’t activate until aloof afore his chief year, aback his mother, Sgt. 1st Class Linda Wolfe was stationed at Fort Bliss.

Khalid counts his mother as his better agreeable influence, alongside an all-embracing mix of singer-songwriters, from R&B’s Frank Ocean to indie-rock and folk music artists such as Grizzly Bear and James Blake. And baptize in a little bit of R&B from his mom’s era, TLC, Brandy and Usher, to name a few.

Wolfe had her own ambitions as an R&B accompanist aback in the 1990s, but ancestors and career opportunities led her to the Army. Her articulate adeptness led her to admirers for a Aggressive Occupational Specialty at the U.S. Army Academy of Music. Wolfe has articulate in assorted Army ensembles, including the U.S. Army Europe Band & Chorus and currently with the 1st Armored Division Band at Fort Bliss.

And if it wasn’t for that acute assignment, Khalid said, he might have never begin himself artistically or personally.

Born in Fort Stewart, Ga., Khalid said activity as a aggressive kid meant affective about absolutely a bit and never absolutely alive his place.

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“We lived in North Carolina; I was in Fort Campbell, Ky.; New York; Heidelberg, Germany,” Khalid said.

He became absorbed in music and acting at a adolescent age.

“I feel like growing up with my mom was the foundation of my (interest in music),” Khalid said. “In my home, we listened to music all the time. I was aloft through music and I’ve been absorbed in it aback I was three. I’ve been singing aback I could allocution correctly.”

But still, it wasn’t until affective to El Paso that he became absorbed in recording and autograph his own music.

“My aerial academy was what crafted my absorption in recording,” Khalid said. “Everyone at Americas showed me a lot of support. I consistently capital to do music and record, but I never had the aplomb to do it. I was absolutely nervous.”

Then, about a year ago, alive with new accompany from El Paso, Khalid began to acquisition himself and recorded the songs “Saved” and “Stuck On You,” and uploaded them to his Soundcloud page.

“That’s aback I was like, ‘This is what I appetite to do,’ ” Khalid said.

By spring, and with “prom appropriate about the corner,” Khalid said he was acquisitive to get a new song out.

With his chief year advancing to a close, Khalid uploaded the song “Location” on Soundcloud.

“I anticipate the aboriginal song I heard was ‘Stuck on you,’ ” said Tunji Balogun, carnality admiral of A&R for RCA Records. “A acquaintance of abundance beatific it to me and I was addled by how complete the lyrics were. He was abandoned 17 at the time. He became an artisan I was watching.”

Balogun said with anniversary song Khalid aggregate in the afterward months, his absorption became added than piqued.

“When he put out ‘Location,’ I thought, ‘Oh, my God, this kid knows how to accomplish a hit,’ in accession to actuality a accomplished diva and actuality advanced of his age. On ‘Location,’ the stars aligned.”

Khalid's single, "Location," is currently No. 60 on Billboard's Hot 100 blueprint and is a Top 10 R&B hit. (Photo: Courtesy of Renzo Photo/RCA Records)

He wasn’t alone.

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Soon afterwards it was released, absoluteness TV brilliant and archetypal Kylie Jenner acquaint a video of herself and accompany alert to the song on Snapchat.

“I can’t accept Kylie Jenner is alert to my song ‘Location’ on her Snapchat story,” Khalid tweeted on May 27. Then on May 28, “I woke up from my aerial academy graduation and @KylieJenner is alert to my song ‘Location’ for the 2nd day in a row.”

The song, with its addictive burden and lyrics that burrow into adulation in the smartphone era, has now been streamed added than 12.5 actor times on Soundcloud.

Balogun about gushes about Khalid’s aptitude and his adeptness to address songs with lyrics that affix with millennials while still maintaining a archetypal R&B and neo-soul feel that is accustomed and affable to earlier listeners.

“I anticipate it’s absolutely aloof a around-the-clock record,” Balogun said. “The adorableness of that song speaks to the adorableness of Khalid as an artist. It’s archetypal but active at the aforementioned time. He’s got this classic, soulful vocal, but he’s singing about avant-garde account about love.”

Balogun has been in the music industry for added than 10 years and formed with the brand of Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q and one of 2016’s better R&B blemish stars, Bryson Tiller.

Balogun is allegedly aflame about the actuality that the blow of the apple will get to apprehend what he hears in Khalid’s music aback his admission album, “American Teen,” drops on March 3.

“He wrote every song on this anthology and came up with all the concepts; he’s an original,” Balogun said. “He’s a once-every-20-years affectionate of artist; I absolutely accept that. I’ve formed with a lot of artists, but no one this accomplished at 18 years old. His absolute is whatever his dreams are. … I accept we accept all the capacity for a allegorical artist.”

Now fast-forward to January.

Khalid is on his aboriginal bout and has already fabricated sold-out stops in Detroit, New York and several added cities.

“We were afraid to put him out on the road, but he stepped up to the challenge. He stepped up and absolutely delivered. I see growth,” Balogun said.

On Jan. 21, aback “Location” had aloof absurd Billboard’s R&B Top 10, about 200 admirers lined up alfresco the Washington, D.C., area Songbyrd. Some scavenged for an added ticket.

Inside the dimly lit basement venue, Khalid opened his set with a pre-recorded monologue, absorption on his 18-year journey. The aforementioned account can be heard in a afresh appear minidocumentary for The Fader. The admirers was engaged, bound in and anybody in the army seemed to apperceive the lyrics to every song.

A few abbreviate weeks afterwards and Khalid was aback in El Paso, accessible for his big hometown show.

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The band to access Tricky Falls flowed down El Paso Street, wrapped around the bend at San Antonio Avenue and continued another block bottomward Santa Fe Street.

Khalid’s adopted hometown admirers were every bit as enthusiastic, if not more-so, than those in D.C. And the absolutely bigger venue’s admirers about drowned out Khalid’s own vocals on every song — abnormally aback he performed “Location.”

Khalid said he began alive on the song during a cruise to Atlanta, area he formed with producers Syk Sense and Tunji Ige on the song’s instrumental.

“It was a continued flat session,” Khalid said. “I about quit.”

Feeling the charge for some home cooking, Khalid alternate to El Paso’s Beacon Hill Studios to abide working.

“I had my accompany and my mom (at the studio) and I wrote it all there,” Khalid said. “It’s crazy to see a song I about didn’t almanac is accomplishing cool well. It’s appropriate because I recorded it about accompany and family. I wouldn’t accept gotten as aggressive as I was if they weren’t there.”

Khalid’s “Location” bout will blanket up on Valentine’s Day in Sacramento, Calif., afterwards several added sold-out shows.

Then comes the anthology release. Then the approaching is in Khalid’s hands.

But, he said, he’ll booty with him the apprehensive and advanced attitude of his heart’s best admired area — El Paso — as able-bodied as the admonition of his hero: his mom.

“To consistently break ashore and never balloon area you came from — and booty affliction of your voice,” Khalid said, no agnosticism aflame that big smile he shared before bridge the stage at the Don Haskins Center and showed afresh abounding times at Tricky Falls about nine months later.

Dave Acosta may be accomplished at 546-6138; dacosta@elpasotimes.com; @Chuy_Vuitton on Twitter.

Former El Paso Times anchorman Kristopher Rivera contributed to this story.

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