User:Joseph Handz/sandbox

Joseph Anthony Elias (January 1st, 2003), known professionally as Joseph Handz is an American music artist from The Bronx, New York. Though he is up and coming many say he has the potential to be a top mainstream artist in the music industry within the coming years. He started gaining traction with his first project release Start Unknown Finish Unforgettable (2021), featuring popular tracks such as  One Spliff and Obsidian. Handz is currently an independent artist grossing his earnings through companies such as United Masters and DistroKid.

Career
Summer 2020: Baby Flows

Handz began his career summer of 2020 with the release of the popular tune Baby Flows thus giving him his first artist nickname Baby Flows. This is because the song imitated his favorite artist (Lil Baby) ability and talent of changing and mastering very distinct and energetic rhythmic flows.

October 2020: Addiction

He goes on to then release his second multi-platform song Addiction(October 9, 2020) featuring his good friend and music influence Ace. Weeks later taking to Instagram a snippet of at the time new song, Tell Nobody is released (October 27, 2020) grossing 12 thousand Instagram views the first day, forcing him to then release on Halloween of 2021.

November: For The Stars (His Personal Favorite Song)

1 month later his all-time favorite song For The Stars is released (November 27, 2021).

Beginning Signs Of Stardom: PG ft. It's Eli, Money Conversations The coming months after he receives his first 2 major career jumps with the release of PG (December 25, 2020) featuring his good friend and mixing engineer It’s Eli and his top 3 most streamed songs, Money Conversations (February 19, 2021).

Album Mode: Start Unknown Finish Unforgettable, 183rd Ent.

After the release of Money Conversations, with much buzz still going on, he sets off to go on a multi-month break where he dedicates his time strictly to his album. During these times he is releasing snippets causing his fan base and various supporters to become very impatient. Luckily they wait no more as he sets his album date to July 2, 2021. This is the first drop repping his co-founded label, 183rd Ent. A label made up by him and his friends. Upon the release, the album does a total of 20 thousand streams overall streaming platforms within the first 2 weeks. This results in being his 3rd career jump as his name still rises in his city. Just when the dust settles he takes to Instagram and releases a music video snippet to his number 1 song One Spliff (August 18, 2021) creating more talks of the potential he has of being big in the industry. He then releases the video days later on August 20, 2021.

Early Life
Joseph Elias was born in Fort Riley, Kansas not far from his home on a military base. His father was in the army, this was the reason for living in Kansas. When Joseph was 2 years old the family was then moved to Upstate, New York due to his father's stationing again. Before turning 3 years old his parents split and thus leading Joseph and his mother to migrate to The Bronx. At first staying with their family in the South Bronx, around 7 years old he and his mother moved to East Gunhill Rd where he would grow up. Joseph like many kids loved sports and was a very talented swimmer, so talented he participated in the Junior Olympics 3 times and also swam for the new york traveling team where we would compete in places such as North Carolina, Puerto Rico, The Dominican Republic, etc. Joseph was a good student up until high school where he would begin to flunk in grades and relations with teachers. This lead to him dropping out of his junior year and fulfilling his goals in music.

Discography
Albums:

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 * [https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/josephhandz/start-unknown-finish-unforgettable Start Unknown Finish Unforgettable

Collaborations:


 * Time V Love (with Its Eli) (Coming Soon)
 * Voice Of The Heartless (with Stew HBK)