The L.A.-based musician behind the viral hit 'Million Dollar Baby' on TikTok, new stardom and his debut album, 'Coyote.'
When Tommy Richman moved to Los Angeles in 2022 — moved back here, that is, after an unsuccessful earlier attempt led to a retreat to his mom’s basement in Woodbridge, Va. — he lived in a grubby hostel in Little Tokyo that cost him $26 a night. “Bro, it was bad,” the singer says now. “There was a guy a few rooms down from me who had a hammer, and when you’d walk by, he’d hammer the door just to scare people.
“That’s what you get?” Richman asks with a laugh at the hostel. “I mean, it is a little grimy. ‘Dirtbag Justin Timberlake,’” he repeats, rolling the words around his mind. “That’s funny as s—, bro.” It’s quite a contrast with the career Richman once envisioned as a student at New York’s Manhattan School of Music, where he studied opera after high school and where he’s pretty sure he ranked among the “the top, like, three tenors my age.
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