Lexa Gates
American singer-songwriter, rapper, and producer
About Lexa Gates
Born 2001. Lexa Gates is an American singer-songwriter, rapper and dJ producer.
Ivanna Alexandra Martinez (born ), known as Lexa Gates, is an American musician and rapper.
Early life At a young age, Gates lived with her father and sister in Puerto Rico. Her mother has previously written songs and sung in cafés as a hobby. Her mother saved up money from packing cigarettes in Puerto Rico to move back to the Queens borough of New York City, where Gates grew up. She began playing piano after watching her mother do so. and later began making music at the age of seventeen. She released I Am on January 16, 2026. In promotion for the album, she performed an immersive art installation at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in New York City in which she walked on a human-sized hamster wheel for 10 hours.
Personal life Gates has been sober from alcohol since her twenty-first birthday.
Discography Order of Events (2020) Delirium (2021) Hungry (2021) Universe Wrapped in Flesh (2022) Elite Vessel (2024) I Am (2026)
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Who is Lexa Gates?
American singer-songwriter, rapper, and producer
When was Lexa Gates born?
Lexa Gates was born on 8 April 2001 in Queens, Astoria.
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Lexa Gates is a singer-songwriter, rapper and dJ producer.
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Lexa Gates is American.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Lexa Gates. https://biography.guide/lexa-gates/
MLA: "Lexa Gates." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/lexa-gates/.
Chicago: "Lexa Gates." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/lexa-gates/.
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