SAINt JHN

When
Thursday, Apr. 24, 2025
8 p.m.
Cost: Cost Varies
Where
1332 W Burnside St
Portland, OR 97209

SAINt JHN specializes in slow jams that are lyrically lucid and sonically shadowy. The rapper/singer, songwriter, and producer was known behind the scenes for his work with the likes of Kiesza and Usher before he advanced with his first album, Collection One (2018). Ghetto Lenny's Love Songs (2019), his HITCO-supported second LP, capitalized on the Beyoncé collaboration "Brown Skin Girl" and cracked the Top 40 of the Billboard 200. A club remix of his early track "Roses" became a global hit shortly thereafter. That track later appeared on his Top 40 hit album While the World Was Burning in 2020. It was followed by collaborations like "Just for Me" with SZA (off Space Jam: A New Legacy), and numerous singles — "The Best Part of Life," "Circles," and "Poppin" among them — that took him into the mid-2020s.