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Chloe Bailey

CTL-E-5736 · Person · musician · 1998–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07004 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5736.

Chloe Bailey, born Chloe Elizabeth Bailey on 1 July 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American singer and actress who records solo as Chlöe. With her younger sister Halle she formed the duo Chloe x Halle, whose viral YouTube covers of Beyoncé songs led to a signing with Beyoncé's Parkwood label; Bailey produced or co-produced most of the duo's material. Their albums The Kids Are Alright (2018) and Ungodly Hour (2020) were both Grammy-nominated, and the duo holds five Grammy nominations since 2018. Bailey acted as Jazz Forster in Grown-ish before launching solo with "Have Mercy" (2021), the album In Pieces (31 March 2023) and Trouble in Paradise (9 August 2024). She was reported performing at the Essence Festival finale on 6 July 2026.

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Chloe Bailey, born Chloe Elizabeth Bailey on 1 July 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American singer and actress who records solo as Chlöe. With her younger sister Halle she formed the duo Chloe x Halle, whose viral YouTube covers of Beyoncé songs led to a signing with Beyoncé's Parkwood label; Bailey produced or co-produced most of the duo's material.

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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 Chloe Bailey entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5736 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 210 (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 — second solo album released August 2024; Essence Festival performance reported July 2026. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Chloe x Halle hold five Grammy nominations since 2018 (duo statistic, attributed to the duo); Ungodly Hour debuted at No. 16 on the Billboard 200 (2020) — AllMusic/Wikipedia, 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-5736-chloe-bailey.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 )

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