Midnight Son

Midnight Son is an alternative R&B artist, singer, songwriter, and producer from Anchorage, Alaska, creating soulful, sensual, and introspective music from a place rarely associated with the genre. Formerly known as Ed Washington, he began releasing music independently in 2015, developing a sound defined by lush harmonies, expressive vocals, and unconventional production. His music explores the contradictions of being human: love and desire, pleasure and guilt, vulnerability and self-preservation. A classically trained vocalist with a BA in Music from the University of Alaska Anchorage, Midnight Son writes, produces, records, and engineers his own music. His credits include collaborations with Medium Build on “Good At Being Lonely,” “Rabbit,” and “Especially Me,” and co-writing Quinn Christopherson’s “Evelene.” His work has earned three Alaska Hip Hop & R&B Awards, an Alaska Legislative Citation, and a 2025 Rasmuson Individual Artist Award. His earlier albums, Stoicism and Hedonism, laid the foundation for Cynicism, completing a trilogy that bridges his two artistic identities. The name changed, but the story never started over. Alaska loves R&B too.