Ari Lennox

Biography

Ari Lennox is the stage name of Courtney Shanade Salter, an American R&B singer-songwriter born in Washington, D.C. in 1991. After independent mixtapes and EPs, she signed to *J. Cole*'s #Dreamville Records# in 2015 as the label's first female artist. Her debut album 'Shea Butter Baby' (2019) and its follow-up 'Age/Sex/Location' (2022), home to the hit single 'Pressure', made her one of the leading voices in contemporary soul and R&B, and a third album, 'Vacancy', arrived in 2026.