HOUSTON NATIVE RAPHAEL General, 24, spends his workweek managing investment portfolios as a cash analyst at a finance company. But once he's home, the UHD grad spins beats in his bedroom, spitting highly personal melodic and wavy lyrics and developing his rap career under the name Saint Raphael.

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JaeRene was featured as a rising star in CityBook's 2020 Music Issue.

A GOFUNDME set up for the family of R&B singer Jaelyn "JaeRene" Chapman, who was killed in a wrong-way crash on the Westpark Tollway on April 7 after the car she was in was struck by an intoxicated driver, is close to reaching its goal of $35,000.

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Texas country artist Hayden Haddock performs at The Rustic Downtown

OPENING A NEW music venue is never easy, but add a pandemic into the mix, and it's damn near impossible. It's no small feat then that Shan Pasha, frontman of local punk outfit Ruiners, managed to open the doors and bay windows — an architectural godsend during a pandemic — of his new music venue and bar, Red Dwarf, in the Midtown space formerly home to Mongoose Vs. Cobra, in August of last year.

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