Moses Sumney is an American singer-songwriter based in Asheville, North Carolina. His self-recorded EP, Mid-City Island, was released in 2014. He released another five-song EP in 2016, titled Lamentations. His first full-length album, Aromanticism, was released in September 2017. His second studio album, Græ, was released in 2020. Sumney has performed as an opening act for Dirty Projectors, Junip, and Sufjan Stevens.
Sumney was born in San Bernardino, California to Ghanaian parents. He moved with his family back to Ghana at the age of 10. Sumney described his childhood as "Americanized" by this age and had difficulty adjusting to the culture of Ghana. His family returned to Southern California when Sumney was 16, settling in Riverside, California...
