Justin Hicks

NEW ALBUM - "Man Of Style"

Worldwide release - April 24th, 2026
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There’s a quiet daring in the way Justin Hicks approaches a song. With a voice that folds vulnerability into velvet and lyrics that hover between the personal and the mythic, Hicks isn’t just making music—he’s building worlds. He initiates meditations on becoming:  prismatic, genre-defying portraits of a Black man moving through an America that often misunderstands itself.

Justin Hicks sings to communicate — to relate, to support, to discover, to pray, to love, and to imagine.

Singing, for Hicks, is how one practices all of this essential human labor. With tenderness Hicks’ music invites us to listen and learn, and with his album Man Of Style Hicks opens a new field of intimate, sonic research.

Originally from the Midwest, Justin carries the sound of open spaces in his work - fields and back porches, church basements and cracked city sidewalks. But rather than leaning into nostalgia, he invites the listener into something stranger and more beautiful: a soundscape where gospel meets art-song, where folk harmonies break into avant-garde textures, and where stories unfold like secrets told in confidence. There is clarity here, and also abstraction—Hicks isn’t interested in resolving the tension. He invites you to live inside it.

Justin’s world moves with a kind of narrative intimacy, drawing on the storytelling traditions of artists like Marvin Gaye, Roberta Flack, James Taylor, and Jeff Buckley — artists who blurred the line between confession and performance. And yet, his approach feels fully his own.

His lyrics don’t always land in tidy conclusions. Instead, they hang in the air like unanswered questions: soft, surreal, and emotionally resonant.
There’s pain, yes—but also wit, warmth, and a deep sense of play.
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“I grew up in a college town in with very religious parents who were atypically progressive.  Dad was a pastor with aspirations of being a visual artist, and Mom was an educator who also sang in a folk and gospel trio.  They were both somewhat frustrated artists with limited time and opportunities to share what they did, so art ended up happening at home or close to.  Especially music.  Self-expression was encouraged, even required in some cases.  I try to archive my lineage - honoring it in what I make, how I sing, how I write because it was taught to me that music has a crucial role in bending the arc even if in a low key way.  I think there is a limit to what songs can truly do, but I still think it’s worth trying to make them, to make things that a lot of people feel the need to hear want to listen to.” - Justin Hicks