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Kalan Dewan Moore Jr. (born May 6, 2006), known professionally as KBands or KalanBands is an American recording artist from Grand Junction, Colorado. He began his career in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and after steadily building a profile for several years, would be signed to RCA Records and Kemosabe Records under a joint-deal in early 2023.

Early Life
Kalan Moore was born to a Jamaican father, Kalan Moore Sr., and a Trinidadin mother, Rachel Moore (née Brathwaite) in Spanish Town, Jamaica. He has two older brothers, Adande and Tristan and three older sisters, Moraine, Alissa and Solange. Due to his father's employment in the Air Force, Moore would often move around the nation as a young child, before his family would settle in Denver, Colorado, after his father's retirement.

Moore, being of Jamaican roots, often listened to the likes of ska and dancehall before being introduced to hip hop and R&B through his father. His siblings would introduce him to artists such as Kanye West, Ashanti, Lil Wayne and Wiz Khalifa, among others. He stated in an interview that during his upbringing "you either was Tyga or Taylor Gang (Wiz Khalifa)". Moore was the latter.

He would move to Grand Junction, Colorado when he was 17 and he would graduate from Fruita Monument High School. Martin has spoken on his fathers passing stating “My dad being gone is probably one of the largest if not the largest reason I do this shit. I don’t know if he would approve or if he’d be proud but I know he’d be happy to see my pursuing what I love. That’s why I’m still here.” Martin originally sought after a career in the NFL up until his sophomore year where he started to take music more seriously.

2020-21: Career Beginnings
KBands began his music career in 2020 claiming that it was a coping mechanism for his father's death. In an interview, he revealed that "make up" by Poorstacy was the driving force that inspired him to pursue a music career. He also claims he found inspiration in listening to Young Thug, Lil Uzi Vert, The Weeknd, ASAP Rocky and older Future albums and Playboi Carti and Pi'erre Bourne collaborations.

He would record the first of his tracks in Audacity and would begin posting to SoundCloud where he released his first song titled Lonely Road in August 2020. The song would later be taken down soon after. Throughout 2021, under another different alias, KBands would release singles often, even finding small amounts of success with single Rozay which would reach 25,000 plays on Soundcloud within the span of a month. Martin would later take the song down citing "I made it in a bad place; and with the way the numbers were climbing. I just knew that shit wasn't genuine. I had to take it down, as much as it hurt to do so". He has stated that 2021 was the worst year of his life on several occasions, losing his best friend Dexter Richardson (known as Kari) and doing a brief stint in jail on a Class-1 misdemeanor.