On 10 August 2017, Khalil was a guest on Posh Isolation's Copenhagen Report. Khalil has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 11 episodes and was first played on 10 August 2017.

Khalil is the new project of Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild, best known for his pop endeavours in the synth quartet When Saints Go Machine, as well as his acoustic duo Cancer, Khalil is his strongest vision to date. The collaborative platform for Vonsild's searing angelic/alien vocals is produced with Simon Formann, better know as Yen Towers and formerly of Lower, along with Villas Klint. Their first LP, The Water We Drink, was released in 2017 on Posh Isolation.