Peyton Announces Reach Out EP via Stones Throw Records

Houston based R&B singer/songwriter Peyton has announced today that her Reach Out EP is slated for release on September 13th via Stones Throw Records. Peyton will be performing new material from the EP live at the Satellite Bar, in support of her label-mate Jerry Paper. Recently, Peyton shared the track “laylo / crazy4u”, which will soon be getting the video treatment. In the song, Peyton toys with hiding her feelings at the start of a new relationship, playing off her first single “to spare”.

Growing up in Houston’s Third Ward, Peyton has always had a love for music. Some of her influences throughout the years include Amel Larrieux, Erykah Badu, The Neptunes/N.E.R.D., Prince and Kanye West, whom you can now hear sonically woven throughout her catalog. Her late grandmother Theola Booker was a formative inspiration of hers who not only composed and arranged music for renowned gospel musician Reverend James Cleveland, winning a Grammy nomination for her work behind the scenes, but also taught piano for decades at Peyton’s elementary school (and counted the young Beyoncé Knowles among her students).

At just 22 years old, Peyton is young but she has already started to make a name for herself in the music scene, collaborating with Steve Lacy from The Internet on her song, “Verbs” and opening for The Internet and SALES. In 2018 two of her songs, “Sweet Honey” and “Lifeline” were featured in episodes of HBO‘s Insecure, as well as on the soundtrack for the series.