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Jam with Grammy-winning pop phenom Finneas at House of Blues

24-year-old Finneas made a name for himself writing and producing for his younger sister, Billie Eilish.

Finneas. Photo by Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images

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What can’t Finneas do?

The producer, songwriter, engineer, actor, and singer from Los Angeles appears to juggle his many hats nearly seamlessly.

At 24 years old, Finneas O’Connell has already been nominated for 9 Grammys (and won 8 of them) for his work writing and producing his pop superstar younger sister, Billie Eilish.

And he’s slated soon to take the stage for his own debut album, “Optimist,” out Oct. 15.

As of September, Finneas has released two singles off the forthcoming release: the thunder and rain ballad of on-again, off-again relationships “A Concert Six Months From Now,” and, “The 90s,” a bass-heavy, vocal rich nostalgic ache for a past long gone

“Sometimes I think about the 90s / I know that everyone romanticized it,” Finneas sings in the first verse. “But you could sign me up / For a world without the internet / I hate how easy they can find me / Just by looking up my mom’s address.”

Speaking to Apple Music, Finneas explained the dichotomy of the ‘90s that’s now come into view — a time of modern society when the internet didn’t dominate everything, Yahoo News reports.

“I think there was an air of optimism that is maybe not as present today in 2021,” he said. “And I think it’s always important to be optimistic, but I think there was this hopeful, future-is-bright in the ‘90s. And I think we’re right now in that period of time where there’s a lot of scientists shaking their head.”

In “A Concert Six Months From Now,” Finneas pines for a relationship that ran it’s course a few times but never really died out.

“If I could see the future, I never would believe her,” he moans. “Falling in and out of love and falling in again / We were never any good at being friends.”

If there is anything definitive about the future as it stands, there’s this: It’s clearly bright for Finneas.