Powfu

Who is Powfu?

Isaiah Faber, known professionally as Powfu, is a Canadian musician, rapper, singer, songwriter and the son of Dave Faber from the band Faber Drive. He amassed popularity following the release of his first charting single, "Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)", which peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot 100. In February 2020 he released the song "Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)", which features a sample of Filipino-British singer Beabadoobee's debut single "Coffee." The single has received over 890 million streams on Spotify as of February 2021 and peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 after amassing popularity through the video-sharing app TikTok, where over four million videos using the song have been posted. Upon rereleasing the single commercially a year after, Powfu signed with Columbia Records in the US, in conjunction with Robots + Humans in the UK. The song appears on the EP Poems of the Past, which was released on May 29, 2020. In November 2020, he released the EP some boring love stories, pt. 5, concluding his 'some boring love stories' saga started on SoundCloud.