Iamtheliving is the stage name of Rian Peters, a British-Canadian R&B singer.Stuart Derdeyn, "New music: Rapid-fire raps meet smooth vintage soul with IAMTHELIVING’s and Teon Gibbs’ JNGL". Vancouver Sun, March 9, 2021. He is most noted for his 2019 EP In This Thing Called Life, for which he received a Juno Award nomination for Traditional R&B/Soul Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021.Holly Gordon, "The Weeknd, JP Saxe, Jessie Reyez and Justin Bieber lead 2021 Juno Award nominations". CBC Music, March 9, 2021.
Originally from Peckham, London, England, he is currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia.Alex Hudson, "Vancouver's Teon Gibbs and IAMTHELIVING Team Up for Celebratory Single 'Between the Groove'". Exclaim!, July 31, 2020. He was previously a member alongside Shallom Johnson and Chin Injeti of the short-lived project Suffer the Children, which released a few singles between 2017 and 2019 but has not completed a full-length album.Stuart Derdeyn, "Suffer the Children seek like-minded listeners". Vancouver Sun, August 16, 2017.
In 2020, Peters and Vancouver rapper Teon Gibbs released the singles "Puppa" and "Between the Groove", as previews to their collaborative EP JNGL (2021).
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