Luke Armstrong was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, and is the son of American academics and missionaries. He grew up speaking English and Arabic, exploring questions regarding his own identity—sexual, religious, and political—from a very young age. Armstrong has strung these ideas together and processed them through his music.
Coming off the success of his most recent single, “Back Back,” Armstrong brings us “Little Wins” which is a response to Israel’s intense bombings of Beirut in 2024. “I was stuck in LA traffic, talking on the phone with a friend in Lebanon,” says Armstrong.
“Every time a bomb hit, his door would shake. How do you make sense of it? Me here. Him there.”
This was also happening the same time that the wildfires broke out in California. With “Little Wins,” he ties together small moments of survival that feel universal along with the historic tragedy happening in the Middle East: “I’m stuck in the noise / But I’m calling the boys / Is it even a life / If you never arrive / at the little wins?”
Co-written with Julian Cruz (Dominic Fike), standout track “Little Wins” is out now along with his debut EP, Boys Don’t Cry, via Virgin Music-backed label Paid Vacation.
