Naomi Wild

A portrait of Naomi Wild, promoting merch for ATNCTE.

**India Rain Quateman** (born 29 July 1995) known professionally as **Naomi Wild**, is an American vocalist and musician based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. She is best known for her guest vocals on Odesza's *"Higher Ground"*, and being featured on Machine Gun Kelly's notable single *"Glass House"*, from the album *Hotel Diablo*.

## Career

She attended Santa Barbara City College for 3 years. During this time, she began songwriting and reaching out to other musicians, and producers on SoundCloud, offering them recorded vocals. It caught the attention of producer, Tim Legend, who featured her vocals for his song, titled *"Hope"*. Following the success of the song, she was called by Roc Nation, to record a demo for Rihanna, in which she wrote two verses but they did not use them.

She would begin to work on music fulltime and dropped out of college, and started songwriting and recording demos. She would then send electronic duo, ODESZA, an a cappella recording of a song that she wrote, in which they responded and put a finalised version of the song with her featured vocals (now titled *"Higher Ground"*), on their third studio album. She then released songs like *"Lessons"* and *"Howlin'"* online, and they would respectively garner over thousands of plays.

From early 2019, she was heavily involved on Machine Gun Kelly's *Hotel Diablo* album. She co-wrote the album's third single, *"I Think I'm OKAY"*, her vocals were sampled for *"Death in My Pocket"* (which were uncredited) and as well as being the guest featured artist on the album's fourth single, *"Glass House"*. She performed three songs with Machine Gun Kelly, in October 2020, at the Roxy Theatre, including *"Waste Love"*, in which she sung Madison Love's part. She revealed that she is working on material for her debut upcoming project, in which she tweeted "I've waited 3 years to say this || THE ALBUM HAS A NAME".

## Trivia

* She was born in Los Angeles in July 1995, to parents Bill Quateman and Tammy Hensen Grady.
* Bill Quateman was signed to RCA Records, where he was a singer and songwriter.
* Tammy Grady was an actress, and was in Playboy's *"The Girls of Rock 'n Roll"*, and her grandmother, Beverly Harris, was the lead singer in The Platters.
* She has an older brother named Dylan, and an older sister.
* She attended a liberal arts school, where she learned to play various instruments such as the violin and saxophone, she then switched schools and attended Beverly Hills High School.
* She snuck into a Coachella Festival when she was 18 years old and saw ODESZA playing a DJ set and fell in love with alternative dance music.
* She attended Santa Barbara City College for 3 years, where she studied psychology and philosophy.

## References

1. ↑ NAOMI WILD (@naomiwild) on Twitter — "OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE is live. Shop on my Instagram or at http://atncte.com" Posted 1 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Atwood Magazine — "Howlin' for Higher Ground: A Conversation with Naomi Wild - Atwood Magazine". Published 5 June 2018. Written by Alex Killian. Retrieved 9 September 2022. Archived
3. ↑ Nylon — "How Naomi Wild Learned The Value Of Being Scared". Published 23 April 2018. Written by Hayden Manders. Retrieved 9 September 2022. Archived