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Rhye is an  Contemporary R&B musical project of Canadian singer Mike Milosh. He uses a rotating group of musicians to record and tour.

Rhye's sound is known to be androgynous. They have released three albums, Woman, Blood, Blood Remixed and two EPs, The Fall (Remixes), and Spirit. Woman was long-listed for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize.

Band formation
Milosh was born in Toronto, Canada,, the son of a professional violinist father, and teacher mother. He he studied classical cello, eventually joining his high school band.

Later, Milosh moved to Berlin, Germany to pursue a music career as a vocalist and a producer, and became an electronic musician. Using the professional name Milosh, he signed with the record label Plug Research and released two albums, You Make Me Feel (2004), and Meme (2006). He also contributed the track "Then It Happened" to the Ghostly International/Williams Street album Ghostly Swim, which was released in 2008.

Musical releases
Milosh met Danish instrumentalist Robin Hannibal in summer 2010, the latter a prior member of the Danish duo Quadron (with Coco Maja Hastrup Karshøj). Hannibal was living in his native Copenhagen, and contacted Milosh in Berlin about singing on a remix. The two musicians spent a week together in the studio recording three tracks for their first collaboration.

Milosh and Hannibal moved back to the United States, and formed Rhye. Soon, they signed to the Plug Research label and began releasing singles beginning in 2012. Their first two were "Open" and "The Fall", and they were released on the internet complete with videos before the release of the album, Woman, on March 4, 2013. Woman was recorded in bedroom sessions, and at the time of its release, the label provided no details on the two musicians on the album, which resulted in speculation about their sexuality and origins. Milosh's voice and the band's instrumentation are likened to those of British-Nigerian singer Sade and Everything but the Girl's Tracey Thorn.

"We just didn't want to be in the imagery of it because we wanted people to have their own experience with the songs," he told NPR at the time.

In June 2013, Woman was long-listed for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize. The following year Rhye toured the United States.

Hannibal left the band in 2017, and Rhye evolved into a music collective led by Milosh and focused around the associated live band.

In 2017, Rhye collaborated with Bonobo on a track called "Break Apart" from his album Migration. That June, the band released the split single featuring the songs "Please" and "Summer Days".

The second album from Rhye was called, Blood, and was released on February 2, 2018. It was largely written, produced, and performed by Milosh. Rhye, under the direction of Milosh, and without Hannibal prompted Rolling Stone to write: "the original template of warm, breathy vocal jazz, soft rock and quiet storm remains, and Rhye is mostly content to expand it slightly, allowing the arrangements to breathe and the musicians to add brightly colorful touches."

The cover art for Blood featured Milosh's naked girlfriend, Geneviève Medow Jenkins (a different woman from the one on the cover of Woman).

In summer 2018, Rhye began an international tour to promote the album Blood.

Rhye’s new EP Spirit, was released in May 2019. The recordings, which were completed following the tour, feature Rhye’s usual electronic and guitar style, with "meditative piano arrangements and ambient mood-setting". The inclusion of the piano was the result of Milosh receiving and using a baby grand piano that his girlfriend gave him.

On xxx, Rhye released a tracked called "Beautiful", which was inspired by an initiative called A Beautiful Weekend, in which the song was played on a 72-hour loop with a simultaneous video created by the musician in his home. The song's release came with A “Box of Beautiful” care package, composed of a candle, an embossed journal, a gypsum crystal, and other items useful in the self-isolation of the Covid-19 pandemic. Milosh also contributed to a Secular Sabbath his music as part of the series' ambient live-stream programming.

EPs

 * The Fall (Remixes) (2012)
 * Spirit (2019)

Singles

 * "Open" (2012)
 * "The Fall" (2012)
 * "Please" (2017)
 * "Summer Days" (2017)
 * "Taste" (2017)
 * "Hymn" (2018)
 * "Needed" (2019)
 * "Beautiful" (2020)