Steven Jermey Sinanan (born September 11, 2003), known professionally as Horizon Beats, is an American former electronic music producer and beatmaker from Queens, New York. He established the project that became Horizon Beats in 2020, initially producing hip-hop instrumentals and type beats under the name Horizon Sound before adopting the Horizon Beats name on June 1, 2020. His work later shifted toward electronic music, particularly melodic and progressive house, with his later productions characterized by atmospheric arrangements, emotional songwriting, and a cinematic approach to progressive house.

Sinanan remained the primary creative and operational figure behind Horizon Beats throughout its existence. After several years centered primarily on beat production, the project underwent a broader transition into electronic music in 2025, during which Recardo Ramkishun joined and became a creative collaborator. Sinanan's final period of releases included Don’t Cry For Me, Until You Wake, and Come Find Me Again, the latter of which was released on September 20, 2026 , as the project's final song. 

Horizon Beats officially retired on October 1, 2026 , concluding a career that began with the creation of Horizon Sound on March 13, 2020. During its 2020–2026 history, the project developed from an independent beat-making channel into an electronic music project primarily associated with Sinanan's cinematic approach to melodic progressive house. Following its retirement, its music and history continued to be documented through its official website, online archives, music databases, and , concluding a career that began with the creation of Horizon Sound on March 13, 2020. During its 2020–2026 history, the project developed from an independent beat-making channel into an electronic music project primarily associated with Sinanan's cinematic approach to melodic progressive house. Following its retirement, its music and history continued to be documented through its official website, online archives, music databases, and media platforms.

Early Life

Steven Jermey Sinanan was born on September 11, 2003, in Queens, New York. He developed an interest in music during childhood and began playing piano at approximately 12 or 13 years old. During his early high school years, he continued playing piano and participated in two school talent shows at approximately ages 14 and 15. Sinanan did not receive formal training in music production and later described himself as largely self-taught, learning production techniques through online tutorials and experimentation.

By 2018 and 2019, Sinanan had begun experimenting with music production while attending high school in New York. His earliest work was created primarily using loop-based software and BandLab, where he relied heavily on pre-existing loops, samples, and one-shots while learning how to arrange and construct tracks. These early recordings included experiments with pop and electronic music, although Sinanan had not yet developed a consistent musical direction or production style. As he became more involved with production, he gradually moved beyond these early experiments and learned more of the technical aspects of creating music independently. An existing YouTube channel that he had created during childhood for videos including vlogs, animations, gaming content, and Lego-related videos would later be repurposed for his music.

In March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted schools and everyday life in New York City, Sinanan began spending more time at In March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted schools and everyday life in New York City, Sinanan began spending more time at and decided to pursue beat production more seriously. On March 13 , he repurposed his existing YouTube channel as Horizon Sound, initially intending to use music production as a way of earning additional money to help his parents with household expenses. His musical direction increasingly shifted toward hip-hop instrumentals and type beats, beginning the period that would define the project's early identity. Working primarily with free resources at the beginning, he reinvested money earned through the project into production software, equipment, and services used to distribute and sell his beats. BandLab was eventually replaced by FL Studio as his primary digital audio workstation, which remained his principal production software throughout the remainder of his music career. He also experimented briefly with Logic Pro, though it did not become part of his regular production workflow.

2020 — formation

Following the creation of Horizon Sound on March 13, 2020, Steven Sinanan began regularly uploading hip-hop instrumentals and type beats to YouTube while continuing to develop his production skills. Although Sinanan had experimented with several forms of music before 2020, Horizon Sound represented his first sustained attempt to build a music project around regular releases and commercial beat production. During its first several months, he became increasingly interested in turning beatmaking into a source of income, despite initially having little experience with selling or marketing music. Through a mutual friend, Sinanan had previously become acquainted with Rayan, who became interested in the project after discovering the beats Sinanan had begun uploading. Rayan subsequently encouraged him to begin commercially selling his instrumentals and contributed ideas for marketing beats toward particular artists and audiences.

Rayan became involved with the project around late May 2020 through an informal partnership in which he received a share of revenue generated through their work together. On June 1 , during a discussion about the project's identity, Rayan questioned why a channel centered specifically on producing and selling beats continued to use the name Horizon Sound. The conversation resulted in the project being renamed Horizon Beats, establishing the name Sinanan would continue using for the remainder of his music career. Throughout the summer of 2020, the project experienced its strongest period of commercial activity to that point as Sinanan increased his output and began marketing instrumentals more deliberately. The income generated during this period allowed him to continue expanding the production tools and services used to operate Horizon Beats.

The project's early commercial momentum began declining during the latter months of 2020. From approximately September through December, beat sales decreased while the costs associated with maintaining the project increasingly exceeded its revenue. Rayan ultimately left Horizon Beats around November after concluding that the project was no longer financially sustainable, ending his involvement after several months. Sinanan continued independently following Rayan's departure, but the decline in sales continued through the end of the year. By January 2021, the commercially active phase that had defined Horizon Beats during its first year had largely ended, beginning a substantially quieter period for the project.

2021-2024 — Quiet Years

Following the decline of Horizon Beats' original commercial beat operation, Steven Sinanan substantially reduced his musical output beginning in 2021. Whereas the project had previously produced and uploaded multiple beats per week during portions of 2020, its output fell to approximately two to four releases per year during the following four years. Sinanan closed the project's beat store and other commercial operations in early 2021 and stopped actively selling instrumentals, with subsequent releases generally being made available without charge. 

Music became an increasingly intermittent activity as Sinanan divided his attention between education, employment, military service, and other personal commitments. Although Horizon Beats remained in use as his musical identity, the project entered an extended period of limited activity rather than formally ending.

The reduced output also became a period of continued experimentation in Sinanan's production. During 2021 and 2022, he continued creating type beats while experimenting with vocal chops and production techniques outside the project's earlier formula. By 2023 and 2024, his work had become increasingly influenced by cinematic arrangements, incorporating instruments and textures including piano, strings, violin, and cello. These productions remained relatively small releases distributed primarily through YouTube, but the techniques Sinanan developed during this period later became an important foundation for the cinematic elements of his electronic music. Recardo Ramkishun, a longtime friend of Sinanan's from high school, also occasionally listened to and provided informal feedback on Sinanan's productions during portions of this period, although he was not yet formally a member of Horizon Beats.

In late 2024, Sinanan began reconsidering the project's musical direction and experimenting more deliberately with complete vocal-based original songs. This experimentation produced five related tracks that became known retrospectively as Psycho. Originally uploaded individually through YouTube rather than formally released or commercially distributed as an EP, the collection marked Sinanan's first substantial attempt at constructing complete original songs around generated vocals. The process required him to develop techniques for processing, cleaning, arranging, and mixing vocals, an area in which he previously had little experience, and demonstrated that he could produce vocal-centered music rather than remaining primarily an instrumental beatmaker.

The experience became an important precursor to Horizon Beats' subsequent transition into electronic music. After completing the Psycho material, Sinanan approached Ramkishun about experimenting more extensively with electronic dance music. Rather than continuing to shape his work primarily around the existing beat market, Sinanan decided to pursue music based more directly on his own creative interests. Drawing initially from tropical house, he began developing Don't Give Up on Love in late 2024 alongside several other electronic tracks. The song was completed as the first release of Horizon Beats' new electronic direction and released on January 2, 2025.

2025 — Electronic Era

Horizon Beats began its broader transition from beat production to electronic music in January 2025 with the release of Don't Give Up on Love on January 2. Developed over approximately four weeks beginning in late 2024, the song drew heavily from tropical house and applied the vocal-production techniques Steven Sinanan had begun developing through the Psycho material to a new electronic direction. Several additional songs were developed alongside Don't Give Up on Love, initially as part of the same period of experimentation. Recardo Ramkishun, a longtime friend of Sinanan's, participated by listening to works in progress and providing feedback. The unexpectedly strong response to Don't Give Up on Love, which received thousands of views during its early release period, encouraged Sinanan to continue developing the material as a five-track EP. Timeless Love, I'll Be There for You, and In Love with You followed in rapid succession, while the fifth track, Hold On Me, marked substantially greater creative involvement from Ramkishun, who contributed to its hook, chorus, and lyrics. His involvement with the song marked the beginning of his formal creative role within Horizon Beats.

The project's output accelerated rapidly during the opening months of 2025. Sinanan released Avicii, a tribute to one of his principal musical influences, shortly after the first EP. The song became Horizon Beats' most successful release to that point and represented one of the project's earliest significant increases in viewership. It was followed on January 19 by the Stars Will Align EP, which continued the tropical and melodic electronic direction established earlier that month. Valentine's Gone Wild followed in February, while How Will We Know, released in March, displayed a particularly strong tropicalhouse influence. The increased audience brought Horizon Beats substantially more views and subscribers than it had experienced during its original 2020 beat-making period, but the pace also exposed problems with Sinanan's production process. Songs were frequently being conceived, produced, mixed, and released in rapid succession without a consistent production schedule, while Sinanan and Ramkishun were simultaneously developing their approaches to songwriting and vocal production.

On May 13 , Horizon Beats released Chasing Paradise, continuing the electronic direction of the project's earlier releases. Although the project maintained a larger audience than it had during its beat-making years, Sinanan and Ramkishun found the performance of individual releases increasingly unpredictable. Some songs attracted considerably larger audiences than others despite being produced and promoted through similar methods. Following Chasing Paradise, Sinanan established a more structured release cycle centered on the twentieth day of each month, allowing more time for production, artwork, videos, and promotion. Subsequent releases included Runaway, This Summer, and Summer Rewind, with This Summer becoming one of the strongerperforming releases of the period. Experiments , Horizon Beats released Chasing Paradise, continuing the electronic direction of the project's earlier releases. Although the project maintained a larger audience than it had during its beat-making years, Sinanan and Ramkishun found the performance of individual releases increasingly unpredictable. Some songs attracted considerably larger audiences than others despite being produced and promoted through similar methods. Following Chasing Paradise, Sinanan established a more structured release cycle centered on the twentieth day of each month, allowing more time for production, artwork, videos, and promotion. Subsequent releases included Runaway, This Summer, and Summer Rewind, with This Summer becoming one of the strongerperforming releases of the period. Experiments electronic production were also attempted but were discontinued after receiving comparatively limited attention.

A more significant stylistic change began during the final months of the year. On October 17 , Sinanan released New Me, an experimental track that combined vocal chops with the cinematic instrumentation and arrangement techniques he had developed during the project's quieter 20212024 period. Although its style differed from the progressive house Horizon Beats would later become associated with, the track represented an early form of what Sinanan described as cinematic house. Its reception encouraged Sinanan and Ramkishun to continue developing the approach. Light Me Up, released on November 20 , further expanded the cinematic direction and became another of the project's stronger-performing releases, while additional , further expanded the cinematic direction and became another of the project's stronger-performing releases, while additional recalling the earlier tropical-house style received comparatively less attention.

The stylistic transition culminated with Falling Snow, released in December 2025. Developed over several weeks beginning in November, the track went through multiple revisions as Sinanan experimented with creating a larger, more progressive-house-oriented drop while retaining the cinematic qualities of the preceding releases. Falling Snow ultimately became Horizon Beats' most successful release of the year, surpassing 20,000 views and substantially exceeding the audience reached by its previous releases. The song became the clearest precursor to the project's later sound, bringing together many of the structural, atmospheric, and production ideas Sinanan subsequently developed into his cinematic approach to progressive house.

Despite the project's growth, the pace of production throughout 2025 left Sinanan increasingly exhausted. In addition to producing and mixing the music, he was responsible for much of Horizon Beats' artwork, videos, release preparation, and promotion. At the time, the project operated primarily through its YouTube channel and commercial streaming services and had not yet developed the website, archival infrastructure, and broader online presence established during the following year. After completing Falling Snow, Sinanan stepped away from Horizon Beats because of creative burnout and initially had no plans to resume producing music, bringing the project's first full year as an electronic act to an abrupt conclusion.

2026 — final era

Following his departure from Horizon Beats at the end of 2025, Steven Sinanan initially did not intend to return to music. His decision to step away coincided with preparations for an overseas military deployment, which created uncertainty over whether he would have sufficient time to continue producing regularly. Despite the hiatus, Sinanan continued working intermittently on music between January and March 2026, developing two tracks, Come Back Over and Stay Right Here. Both represented stylistic departures from the project's late-2025 material and drew from electronic production associated with the mid-2010s. During this period, Recardo Ramkishun repeatedly encouraged Sinanan to resume Horizon Beats. After determining that he would have sufficient time to continue producing while overseas, Sinanan agreed to return, formally resuming the project in April with the release of Come Back Over.

The return also marked a significant change in how Sinanan approached Horizon Beats outside of music production. After previously allowing the project's commercial distribution to lapse, he observed that much of its visibility across search engines had disappeared alongside its streaming presence. Seeking to establish a more durable public record of the project, Sinanan began expanding Horizon Beats beyond its YouTube channel and streaming profiles. Come Back Over attracted more than 3,000 views during its initial release period and became the subject of the project's first external music coverage, beginning with an article from Electrowow and followed by additional coverage from other publications. Stay Right Here, released the following month, received approximately 9,000 views during its early run. encouraged Sinanan and Ramkishun to begin work on another EP while Sinanan continued expanding the project's online presence.

On June 20 , Horizon Beats released the fivetrack EP Can't Forget. Despite the momentum of the preceding singles, the EP received substantially less attention during its initial release period. Sinanan later regarded the project as an important production experiment: while he had become more capable of constructing larger and more energetic electronic drops, he believed the EP had sacrificed much of the emotional songwriting and storytelling that had characterized his stronger earlier material. During the same period, Sinanan began developing a more extensive digital infrastructure around Horizon Beats, including an official website, organized archival material, music-database entries, expanded metadata, lyric documentation through Genius, and a regularly updated blog. The effort was intended to create a more permanent historical and searchable record of the project rather than leaving its online identity dependent primarily on commercial streaming services.

The response to Can't Forget prompted Sinanan and Ramkishun to reconsider the project's musical direction. Their next single, Don't Cry For Me, released on July 20, combined the cinematic and emotional qualities Sinanan had developed through tracks such as Falling Snow with the larger progressive-house drops he had experimented with on Can't Forget. The resulting combination became the foundation of Horizon Beats' final production style. Although the song was not the project's most successful release by view count, it became one of its most widely covered releases, receiving attention from numerous independent music publications, including EARMILK. The external coverage, combined with Sinanan's expanding archival and metadata work, substantially increased Horizon Beats' visibility across web searches and provided a larger network of references to the project than had existed during its earlier years.

Sinanan and Ramkishun continued developing the style with Until You Wake, released on August 20. The project's final recordings increasingly emphasized sparse and atmospheric verses, emotional songwriting, cinematic instrumentation, and melodic progressive-house drops, consolidating elements that had developed separately throughout Sinanan's earlier work. This approach represented the culmination of techniques first explored through the cinematic type beats of New Me, Light Me Up, and Falling Snow in 2025, and combined with the larger and more energetic electronic production explored during 2026. Sinanan ultimately described the resulting style as cinematic progressive house.

Although Horizon Beats had returned to regular activity, Sinanan did not view the comeback as the beginning of an indefinite continuation of the project. By the time of the return, he had already begun considering its eventual retirement, initially contemplating continuing into early 2027. During the latter part of 2026, however, Sinanan decided to bring the project to a conclusion sooner as he prepared to redirect more of his time toward education and a professional career outside music. He also sought to give Horizon Beats a defined ending rather than allowing it to return to the prolonged inactivity that had characterized much of 2021–2024. Sinanan and Ramkishun subsequently completed Come Find Me Again, which was released on September 20 as the final Horizon Beats song. The track continued the cinematic progressive-house approach of the preceding releases and concluded the project's final three-song run of Don't Cry For Me, Until You Wake, and Come Find Me Again.

Retirement and preservation

Steven Sinanan had begun considering the eventual retirement of Horizon Beats by the time he returned to the project in April 2026. Although the return initiated one of the project's most active periods, Sinanan did not view it as the beginning of an indefinite continuation. He and Recardo Ramkishun had previously discussed the possibility that Horizon Beats would eventually conclude, and Sinanan initially considered continuing through January 2027, which would have extended the project into a seventh calendar year. During the summer of 2026, he consequently began organizing and preserving material associated with Horizon Beats in preparation for its eventual closure, even though a definitive retirement date had not yet been selected.

By early September, Sinanan decided to bring the project to an end sooner than originally planned. With college, professional training, and preparations for a career outside music increasingly competing for his time, he concluded that maintaining Horizon Beats alongside those commitments would require more attention than he was willing to continue devoting to the project. Ramkishun initially disagreed with the decision and had hoped Horizon Beats would continue following its successful return, while Sinanan maintained that the return had never changed his intention to eventually retire. October 1, 2026 , was subsequently selected as the project's official retirement date.

Sinanan wanted the final period of Horizon Beats to conclude with music he considered representative of the project's strongest work. Don't Cry For Me, Until You Wake, and Come Find Me Again consequently became its final three releases, with Come Find Me Again released on September 20 as the final Horizon Beats song. Rather than allowing the project to enter another indefinite hiatus, Sinanan intended the retirement to provide Horizon Beats with a definitive conclusion. The decision was not prompted by a collapse in its audience or creative output; it came during a period in which Horizon Beats had developed its most clearly defined production style and significantly expanded its presence beyond its original YouTube channel. Sinanan instead viewed retirement as an opportunity to conclude the project on his own terms while redirecting his time toward education and a professional career outside music.

Preservation became an increasingly significant part of Sinanan's work during the project's final months. Beginning in June 2026, he expanded the documentation of Horizon Beats through its official website, an organized digital archive, music and lyric databases, release metadata, blog posts, and external music coverage. The archival work documented the project's discography and development independently of its availability through commercial streaming platforms, addressing Sinanan's earlier experience of seeing much of Horizon Beats' search visibility disappear after distribution was discontinued. By the time of retirement, the project's online presence had become considerably broader than the YouTube channel and streaming profiles through which it had primarily operated during earlier periods.

Horizon Beats officially retired on October 1, 2026 , concluding a project that had begun as Horizon Sound on March 13, 2020, and adopted the Horizon Beats name on June 1 of that year. Sinanan regarded the retirement as a permanent conclusion rather than another period of inactivity, intending for the project to remain preserved as a completed body of work with a defined beginning, development, and ending. Its official website, archives, remaining media, database records, and published coverage were maintained as a historical record of Horizon Beats after active music production ceased.

Musical style and influences

Horizon Beats' musical style changed substantially throughout its existence. Although Steven Sinanan's earliest experiments with music production included pop and electronic recordings, Horizon Beats initially developed primarily through hip-hop instrumentals and type beats before incorporating vocal chops, cinematic instrumentation, tropical house, and eventually melodic progressive house. During the project's electronic period, Sinanan's principal influences included Avicii, Martin Garrix, and Kygo, with Avicii and Garrix becoming particularly significant to his later work. Kygo's tropical-house production was an important influence during Horizon Beats' transition into electronic music in early 2025, while the project's subsequent releases increasingly moved toward progressive house.

Sinanan cited Avicii as a major influence on his approach to songwriting and storytelling, particularly through songs such as Hey Brother, The Nights, and Wake Me Up. Rather than treating vocals primarily as an accompaniment to electronic production, Sinanan increasingly structured Horizon Beats songs around a central narrative or emotional idea. Martin Garrix became a significant influence on Sinanan's approach to progressive-house drops, particularly the use of dense, layered production to create large melodic climaxes. Sinanan incorporated aspects of both approaches into his later work, combining narrative-focused songwriting with expansive melodic drops rather than attempting to reproduce either artist's style directly.

Cinematic and classical music also became important influences on Sinanan's production. Having played piano from a young age and developed an interest in classical music, he became particularly interested in the ability of sparse arrangements to create a greater perceived sense of scale. This approach became increasingly prominent in his cinematic type beats during 2023 and 2024, where piano, strings, and orchestral textures could create expansive arrangements despite relatively few instruments being present. Sinanan later carried these techniques into Horizon Beats' electronic music, using ambience, reverberation, stereo depth, and negative space to make comparatively minimal arrangements feel substantially larger.

This approach developed into what Sinanan described as cinematic progressive house. Rather than maintaining maximum density throughout a track, his later productions frequently used sparse verses and vocal sections while manipulating the perceived distance, depth, and scale of individual elements as the arrangement progressed. Expansive reverberation and atmospheric instrumentation could create a distant or dreamlike character, while reducing that space produced a tighter and more immediate sound without necessarily introducing additional instrumentation. These sections were then contrasted with substantially denser melodic progressive-house drops, allowing the perceived scale of a track to change through depth and arrangement as much as through the addition of further layers.Elements of this style developed gradually throughout Horizon Beats' later catalog. The cinematic experiments of 2023 and 2024 provided an early foundation, while New Me, Light Me Up, and Falling Snow developed the approach further during 2025. Sinanan nevertheless considered the drops of these recordings smaller than the sound he ultimately sought to achieve. During 2026, the Can't Forget EP explored substantially larger and more energetic electronic drops but, in Sinanan's view, sacrificed some of the emotional songwriting and cinematic qualities of his earlier work. Don't Cry For Me subsequently combined those approaches, pairing the emotional and cinematic qualities developed through the earlier material with the larger progressive-house production explored on Can't Forget. Until You Wake and Come Find Me Again continued this approach, Elements of this style developed gradually throughout Horizon Beats' later catalog. The cinematic experiments of 2023 and 2024 provided an early foundation, while New Me, Light Me Up, and Falling Snow developed the approach further during 2025. Sinanan nevertheless considered the drops of these recordings smaller than the sound he ultimately sought to achieve. During 2026, the Can't Forget EP explored substantially larger and more energetic electronic drops but, in Sinanan's view, sacrificed some of the emotional songwriting and cinematic qualities of his earlier work. Don't Cry For Me subsequently combined those approaches, pairing the emotional and cinematic qualities developed through the earlier material with the larger progressive-house production explored on Can't Forget. Until You Wake and Come Find Me Again continued this approach, collectively represented the most developed form of Horizon Beats' cinematic progressivehouse style.

Legacy and retrospective

In retrospect, Steven Sinanan regarded the development of a distinct musical identity as one of Horizon Beats' most significant accomplishments. Although his earliest production experiments predated Horizon Beats, the project's own sound changed considerably alongside his development as a producer, progressing from type beats and hip-hop instrumentals through tropical house, cinematic experimentation, and melodic progressive house. By the project's final period, Sinanan believed that Horizon Beats had developed a production approach of its own through cinematic progressive house. Establishing that identity allowed him to work within a familiar musical framework while continuing to alter its melodies, arrangements, stories, and emotional character between individual releases.

Sinanan also viewed Horizon Beats as closely connected to his own personal and creative development. The project's transition into electronic music provided him with a creative outlet during a difficult period of his life, with the deliberately uplifting character of his earliest EDM productions initially serving as a way of improving his own outlook. As Horizon Beats developed, Sinanan became increasingly involved not only in music production but also in songwriting, vocal production, visual presentation, promotion, web development, metadata, and archival work. He later viewed the decision to retire the project as partly reflecting that progression: music had served an important purpose during a particular period of his life, but he no longer believed Horizon Beats needed to remain at the center of his future.

The project's independent development remained particularly important to Sinanan. Horizon Beats began in 2020 using free production tools and an existing childhood YouTube channel before gradually developing into a project with original releases, commercial distribution, external music coverage, an official website, and a documented online archive. Milestones such as the reception of Falling Snow and the wider publication coverage surrounding later releases represented achievements that Sinanan had not anticipated when he established Horizon Sound as a teenager. Rather than measuring the project's through commercial success or wider influence on electronic music, he regarded its existence and development from 2020 to 2026 as an accomplishment in itself

The preservation work undertaken during 2026 reflected Sinanan's desire for that history to remain accessible after Horizon Beats ceased operating. Its archive documented a project that changed considerably between its beginnings as Horizon Sound in 2020 and its final electronic releases in 2026, including periods of commercial activity, prolonged inactivity, experimentation, reinvention, and eventual retirement. Sinanan did not characterize Horizon Beats as a major influence on electronic music, but instead viewed its history as evidence of what could be created independently through sustained experimentation and persistence.A recurring phrase used by Sinanan during the project's later period summarized the idea he associated with Horizon Beats: “Keep dreaming, keep creating, keep being an artist.” For Sinanan, the project's legacy was ultimately personal rather than defined by its scale. Horizon Beats served as a record that he had created something of his own, developed it over time, established an identity for it, and ultimately chosen how its story would end.