Rat Boy

Jordan Cardy, known by his stage name Rat Boy, is an English musician from Chelmsford, Essex. Cardy was born in Chelmsford, England in 1996. He studied at Chelmer Valley High School in Chelmsford and went on to study art at Colchester Institute. He began writing songs in his spare time, releasing songs on SoundCloud under the name “Rat Boy”, a name given to him by his school friends who claimed he looked like a rat. After college, Cardy was hired and subsequently fired from Wetherspoons, which provided inspiration for his first release on SoundCloud, The Mixtape.