[Gallant singing]
♪ Girl won't you sell me ♪
♪  Won't you sell that to me...♪
♪  Oh won't you sell me, babe...♪
Everyone calls me "Gallant"
And I am a singer and I write songs 
that I really like.
Through that process, it helps me learn
more about myself and move closer towards
the goal of becoming a better human.
The journey to get from, you know,
where I was maybe ten years ago was 
very difficult, very volatile.
It had me straying from my values.
It had me finding them again.
It had me questioning myself,
questioning others. I went through
a lot of transformations, I think.
JASON: Gallant was somebody who you
didn't look at and think immediately,
when he was at NYU, "Oh, that's a star."
He's somebody who grew into that 
through hard work,
through hustle and just simply through 
a kind of will to succeed and drive.
GALLANT: I approached in a way that didn't lend
itself to being shared at all.
When it was shared, you know, predictably, my friends would be like, "Oh, this is...this is awful"
Like just objectively bad.  And it was.
I remember some of his stuff.
The first song I heard was...was terrible.
It was horrible.
♪ Wish I may, wish I might...♪
♪ find a pretty girl in my crib tonight ♪
I think me getting better was just a result of me
constantly doing things in solitude. 
In terms of just, like, my voice,
I don't even know what method I would've been
following. Like, it just...I was just doing
it so often that certain things just end up
getting easier for me vocally, and I guess
that could looked at as, like, training in some
sort. But I still would never look at it that way.
♪ No, no, no, no, babe... ♪
♪ Falter on my oaths...♪
♪ Prove I'm more than skin and bones ♪
JASON: Gallant was an incredibly hard
worker. He was hungry. He was taking as many
music classes as he could get his hands on
and he wanted to meet as many people as possible
that could help him in his career and help
him move forward.
[singing to himself]
I tried moving to New York and
it was cool for a while, but I just realized
that this is not my default. I don't feel
like I'm learning anything about myself.
I don't feel like I'm growing and I feel like
I'm fighting to exist.
You know, you're surrounded by all these people who are great creatives
and have all this ambition, but their ambition
is all rooted in, like, "I'm going to be the
next whatever." Like, it's just so whack,
you know, but that was just the culture.
And you know, they didn't like me and
I didn't like them.
I remember, like, my last straw
was everything was just not going well and
I got, like, a McFlurry or something. And
I was, like, "Alright, you know, this is good,
this is going to be alright." [laughs]
I went down to the subway
and then the wind just, like, took all the
dirt and just, like, right into the McFlurry.
You know, that was...that was it. I think
that it was, you know, my will to really just
move and to, like, actually finalize the process
of moving from New York to L.A. and I was
actually back to what making music felt like
to me when I was first doing it.
WADE: I was working with Jake at
the time, on Krewella and ZHU,
and we got a call one night from David Dann
and he said,
"You guys have to hear this artist named Gallant...
He's incredible."
And Jake and I took a listen
and Jake was, like, "I'm going to go down
to the Bootleg to check it out. Do you want
to come?"
The second he opened his mouth,
it was one of the most beautiful things
I had ever heard.
[Gallant singing]
From that moment, from that first note, 
I made it my mission to make sure
that his voice was going to be heard by the
largest amount of people possible at all times.
[Gallant singing] 
♪ I'm pulling my weight in gold ♪
We released our first record
about a year ago. To think that
he would be booked for Coachella - meanwhile in
the set-time that he's in, it's going to be
just an absolutely, incredibly special moment.
Being at Coachella in the first place,
since I am just, like, super low-key,
I don't go to festivals,
so to be there around that energy was crazy.
And then I would just realize, like, wait a second
that's me and then that's Seal.
Okay, this is my hero and I'm just now
okay to stand next to him without shaking uncontrollably, but -
it was such a turning point for me because
I realized that I'm sharing the stage with
somebody who wants to be there that inspired
me, that had supported me and I'm so undeserving
of any of that.
♪ You pushed me farther ♪
WADE: There's so much happening.
He's gotten co-signed from Elton John, toured
with Sufjan Stevens, performing at Coachella
and having Seal join him. In his reactions,
he's very mellow, but I think inside it's like...
"Wow"
It feels very, very early to me for sure.
It feels like...the beginning
of starting to dive deeper into some other
subset of madness that I've never experienced before.
♪ Tell me something I can use ♪
♪ to catapult my value ♪
♪ Treat me like a Cardinal anointed in my vessel ♪
I do feel like I'm naturally moving towards
you know, some kind of evolution
that's gonna make me just a better human,
but I say it just cuz it's true, you know.
It really...that is all I'm thinking about
and that's all I've been thinking about for...ten, twelve years now.
♪ Tell me I'm a monument ♪
♪  to more than bone an tissue  ♪
