Fortunate Youth

From backyard BBQs in Southern California beach towns to its rise as one of the most popular reggaerock bands in the country, Fortunate Youth remains devoted to its roots and a simple mission: Spreadpeace, love, and unity with music. Its a mantra of sorts for the multi-faceted sextet from HermosaBeach, driving a relentless thirst for live performances and an ever-evolving cache of original materialdotted with influences of blues, ska, rock, world, soul, and punk. Now in 2021, with a fifth studio set,Good Times (Roll On), Fortunate Youth is hoping to rekindle the spirit of those halcyon days, grillin andchillin, and to reunite, once again, with their fans worldwide.It was first on SoCal Little League fields that the core of the group bonded as friends and brothers beforeforming the band as twenty-somethings in the summer of 2009. Out of the ashes of local favorites RudeBoy Roots and Irie State of Mind, Fortunate Youth emerged, graduating from house parties to prizedarea clubs; and sneaking underage band members into South Bay bars to play their ambitious sets. Theydeveloped an instantly magnetic repertoire around inspired nascent originals and covers of Sublime andBob Marley, and expanded their circle of fans with early runs in the Golden State and to neighboringArizona.They became devoted to performing live, ticking off countless miles in the van crisscrossing the U.S., andlogging two years of roadwork before recording their first album. They played to small but passionatecrowds, slept on floors, and earned particularly rabid responses in Florida and the cannabis-friendly skitowns of Colorado. And true to their egalitarian ethos of brotherhood, even swapped spots onstage,rotating instruments to best fit the performance. As their popularity increased, so did their schedule,with F.Y. supporting brethren such as Slightly Stoopid, Stick Figure, and SOJA on major tours as well ascontinuing to headline national treks of their own; totaling over 27 tours since their incept