Appleby

Appleby is the primary alias of Justin LaRoy Burns, a Chicago-based singer and songwriter who specializes in relaxed and sensitive ballads that defy easy genre classification. As a youngster, Burns was deeply focused on tennis but ultimately gravitated toward music after he experienced burnout at the age of 17. Within a span of only a few months in 2011, he started to record songs, and under the name Van Go released a five-track mixtape entitled City of Change. A couple years later, he switched tacks, adopted his mother's birth name, and gained traction with SoundCloud uploads...