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Guendoline Rome Viray Gomez, better known by his stage name No Rome, is a London-based Filipino musician from San Francisco del Monte. He is best known for his 2021 single "Spinning", which featured Charli XCX and the 1975 and charted at No. 94 on the UK Singles Chart, though also cowrote the 1975's "TooTimeTooTimeTooTime", which charted at No. 26.

Life and career

Early life and releases

Guendoline Rome Viray Gomez grew up in a rough suburb of San Francisco del Monte. His father was a former DJ and his mother a church singer, while his younger sister Gabriel performed under the name Aunt Robert and his older brother Zeon under the name U-Pistol, short for Ulzzang Pistol. His first performances were as part of the band Rome and the Cats alongside his brother, who acted as his manager. He then adopted the stage name "No Rome", a reference to his detractors, and with Zeon and Ethan Namoch founded Young Liquid Gang in 2012, a collective of musicians, visual artists, photographers, managers, and graphic designers which ran until 2015.

In 2013, he released the double A-side single "Dance With Me" / "United We Are"", followed by the EP Fantasy, both on Number Line Records. In 2014, he released "Heaven", a song inspired by recent bereavements, and in 2015, he released "Know U" on Mermaid Avenue, about being ghosted by inopportune partners. He then released the EP Hurry Home & Rest on Number Line Records later that year. In January 2017, he released "Blue Jeans", a song about misinterpretation of his lyrics, and the following month he released "Seventeen" on Ryan Hemsworth's Secret Songs label, a song about a friend's failed romance; Wave Racer would cover the song in June 2021.

Later works and "Spinning"

Gomez then entered into correspondence with Samuel Burgess-Johnson and sent him his demos, who proceeded to share them with his flatmate Matty Healy, who invited him to London and signed him to his label Dirty Hit. In 2018, Healy and George Daniel produced Rome's third EP, RIP Indo Hisashi, which featured "Narcissist", a collaboration with the 1975, who later adapted it for their own "TooTimeTooTimeTooTime", which charted at No. 26 on the UK Singles Chart. Healy and Daniel also produced Gomez's fourth EP, Crying in the Prettiest Places, the following year. In January 2020, Gomez announced that he was working on Samantha's TV, a mixtape; following the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, he was trapped in the country, having visited with the intention of performing at that year's Wanderland Music and Arts Festival, causing the mixtape to be aborted. In 2021, he, Charli XCX and the 1975 released "Spinning", which charted at No. 94 on the UK Singles Chart; later that year, Daniel and BJ Burton coproduced Rome's album It's All Smiles.

In May 2023, Rome released "Brother", which was inspired by "Plantasia" by Mort Garson and Rachel McKibbens' "Letter From My Heart to My Brain", and in August 2023, he released "Deep Diving", a UK garage-inspired song also inspired by "Plantasia". On 8 September, he released the Kurisu-produced mixtape Blueboy Must Die, which had been delayed from 28 July 2023.

Discography

Studio albums

• It's All Smiles (2021)

Mixtapes

• Blueboy Must Die (2023)

Extended plays

• Fantasy (2013)
• Hurry Home & Rest (2015)
• RIP Indo Hisashi (2018)
• Crying in the Prettiest Places (2019)
• Some More Smiles (2022)

Singles

• "Dance with Me" / "United We Are" (2013)
• "Heaven" (2014)
• "Know U" (2015)
• "Seventeen" (2017)
• "Blue Jeans" (2017)
• "Do It Again" (2018)
• "Seventeen" (re-release, 2018)
• "Saint Laurent" (2018)
• "Cashmoney" (2019)
• "Pink" (2019)
• "Talk Nice" (2019)
• "Trust3000" (featuring Dijon) (2019)
• "Hurry Home" (featuring Beabadoobee and Jay Som) (2020)
• "1:45AM" (featuring Bearface) (2020)
• "Spinning" (with the 1975 and Charli XCX) (2021)
• "When She Comes Around" (2021)
• "I Want U" (2021)
• "Brother" (2023)
• "Deep Diving" (2023)