Khalid

CTL-E-5727 · Person · musician · 1998–present

STRONG EVIDENCE evidence grade — master store (canonical CSV)

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-03581 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-1439 + build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5727. Master record source: CTL intake 2026-10-17 — Soul Train missing-winner seeding from Phase C recovery notes; wins confirmed against the fetched per-year winners lists.

Khalid, born Khalid Donnel Robinson on 11 February 1998 at Fort Stewart, Georgia, is an American R&B singer raised largely in El Paso, Texas, after a military-family childhood that included Kentucky, New York and Heidelberg, Germany. Signed to Right Hand Music Group and RCA, he broke through with the 2016 single "Location" and the debut album American Teen (2017), later certified 4× platinum by the RIAA. Free Spirit (2019) debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and its single "Talk" peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100, his highest-charting lead song in the sources consulted. His catalogue runs through Suncity (2018), Sincere (2024) and After the Sun Goes Down (2025), with collaborations including Logic and Alessia Cara's "1-800-273-8255" and "Love Lies" with Normani. He has six Grammy nominations and no wins in the sources consulted.

The record

• Also known as: Khalid Donnel Robinson, Khalid Robinson
• Role(s): recording artist

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Khalid entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5727 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 200 (R&B Singers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American R&B figure. Vital status: LIVING — fourth album released 10 October 2025; touring reported in 2026. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Free Spirit debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (2019); American Teen certified 4× platinum (RIAA); six Grammy nominations, no wins — Wikipedia/CultureMap, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5727-khalid.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )

Relationships

• Soul Train Music Awards 2019 — honored by
  STRONG EVIDENCE

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Khalid (singer)" — born Khalid Donnel Robinson, 11 February 1998, Fort Stewart, Georgia; raised El Paso; RCA/Right Hand; American Teen 4× platinum; Free Spirit No. 1; "Talk" No. 3; six Grammy nominations — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_(singer) (build store)
• CultureMap Houston, Khalid tour coverage (2026) — It's Always Summer Somewhere Tour and six Grammy nominations; vital-status evidence — https://houston.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/khalid-tour-713-music-hall/ (primary source · build store)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Soul_Train_Music_Awards (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

Won Best R&B/Soul Male Artist at the Soul Train Music Awards 2019 — per the published Soul Train Music Awards winners lists (per-year lists fetched in full during recovery Phase C, 2026-10-17, and re-fetched at intake, 2026-10-17)

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