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1. DAVID GUETTA
He has performed at music festivals such as Coachella, Electric Daisy Carnival, Ultra Music Festival, Tomorrowland, and Creamfields.
In 2014 he headlined the 1st edition of Ultra South Africa making this his first major festival. In the same year he became the youngest DJ to headline 2014 Ultra Music Festival at the age of 17.
He was a resident DJ at Spain’s Hï Ibiza (2017) and Ushuaïa Ibiza (2016 and 2018). He founded the label Stmpd Rcrds in 2016, months after leaving Spinnin’ Records and before signing with Sony Music.
Martin Garrix is well-known for his style of electronic music most especially his skill in keyboard, this has made him to be a very good music producer over recent years and he’s still yet to make some more interesting music for his fans.
For the 2020 King’s Day celebrations, Garrix played a set from the rooftop of A’Dam tower in Amsterdam in place of the usual festival’s cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
4.THE CHAINSMOKERS
The Chainsmokers are an American electronic DJ and production duo consisting of Alexander “Alex” Pall and Andrew “Drew” Taggart.
They started out by releasing remixes of songs by indie artists. The EDM–pop duo achieved a breakthrough with their 2014 song “#Selfie“,
which became a top twenty single in several countries. They have won a Grammy award, two American Music Awards,
seven Billboard Music Awards and nine iHeartRadio Music Awards. According to Forbes 2019 list of highest paid celebrities, the Chainsmokers were the highest paid DJs, dethroning Calvin Harris after six years.
Their debut EP, Bouquet, was released in October 2015 and featured the single “Roses” which reached the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100. “Don’t Let Me Down”, featuring American singer Daya,
became their first top-five single on the Billboard chart and won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording at the 59th awards ceremony. Their single “Closer“, featuring American singer-songwriter Halsey,
became their first number-one single on the Billboard chart. The duo’s second EP, Collage, was released in November 2016. Their debut studio album, Memories…Do Not Open, was released in April 2017 and topped the US Billboard 200 chart. Their second album, Sick Boy, was released in December 2018.
The Chainsmokers are special, since they engage in a very rare form of musical production called electronic duo…they’ve always being people’s favourite.
5.KYGO
Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll (born 11 September 1991), better known by his stage name Kygo (Norwegian: [ˈkỳːɡuː]), is a Singaporean-born Norwegian DJ, songwriter, and record producer.
He garnered international attention with his December 2013 remix of the track “I See Fire” by Ed Sheeran and his December 2014 single “Firestone“. In late 2015, he became the fastest artist to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify, and by June 2016, he had reached 2 billion streams on Spotify.
Kygo has since released several singles, such as “Stole the Show“, “Here for You” and “Stay” in 2015, “It Ain’t Me” in 2017 and a 2019 remix of “Higher Love” performed by Whitney Houston, all of which have debuted on several international charts. His debut album, Cloud Nine, was released on 13 May 2016.
Kygo became the first house music producer to perform at an Olympics closing ceremony on 21 August 2016 at the 2016 Rio Olympics. In March 2018, Billboard ranked Kygo 3rd on its 2018 ranking of dance musicians titled Billboard Dance 100. In 2018, he was ranked 32 on DJ Mag‘s top 100 DJs of the world, and in October 2019 he was ranked 52.
Kygo’s stage name is derived from the first 2 letters of his first and last names, and he got the idea for the name after a school computer system automatically generated the word “Kygo” as his login username.
On 23 March 2020, Kygo announced via his social media that he had completed his third album titled Golden Hour. He then released the single “Like It Is“, with Zara Larsson and Tyga, on 27 March 2020.
On 2 April 2020, Kygo released “I’ll Wait” with vocals by Sasha Sloan. The next day, a music video was released starring real-life American couple Rob Gronkowski and Camille Kostek containing personal footage of their life together. On 16 April 2020, Kygo collaborated with Moroccan-English singer Zak Abel on a track titled “Freedom“.
On 11 May 2020, Kygo officially announced the track list for the Golden Hour album. On 15 May 2020, he released another track, with OneRepublic, titled “Lose Somebody”, along with the pre-order for the album, which was released on 29 May 2020.
6.DIPLO
Thomas Wesley Pentz (born November 10, 1978),[2] known professionally as Diplo, is an American DJ, songwriter, and record producer based in Los Angeles, California.
He is the co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project Major Lazer, a member of the supergroup LSD with Sia and Labrinth, a member of electronic duo Jack Ü with producer and DJ Skrillex, and a member of Silk City with Mark Ronson.
He founded and manages record company Mad Decent, as well as co-founding the non-profit organization Heaps Decent. Among other jobs, he has worked as an English teacher in Japan and a school teacher in Philadelphia. His 2013 EP, Revolution, debuted at number 68 on the US Billboard 200. The EP’s title track was later featured in a commercial for Hyundai and is featured on the WWE 2K16 soundtrack.
During his rise to fame, Diplo worked with British musician M.I.A., an artist who is credited with giving him exposure in his early career. Later, he and fellow M.I.A. producer Switch created a Jamaican dancehall project and cartoon series titled Major Lazer.
Since then, Diplo has worked on production and mixtape projects with many other pop artists, such as Gwen Stefani, Die Antwoord, Britney Spears, Madonna, Shakira, Beyoncé, Ellie Goulding, No Doubt, Justin Bieber, Usher, Snoop Dogg, Trippie Redd, Chris Brown, CL, G-Dragon, Bad Bunny, MØ and Poppy. His alias, short for Diplodocus, derives from his childhood fascination with dinosaurs.
Alan Olav Walker (born 24 August 1997) is an English-born Norwegian DJ and record producer. In 2015, Walker received international acclaim after releasing the single “Faded“, which received platinum certifications in 14 countries. In 2019, he was ranked 27th on DJ Mag‘s Top 100 DJs list of 2019.
He released his debut studio album, Different World, in 2018.Walker was originally known as “DJ Walkzz” or “Walkzz” when he was starting out. He ended up using his real name, Alan Walker, as his artist name after signing up with a record label. He designed his logo in 2013, a symbol consisting of intertwined letters “A” and “W” which are the initials of his name.
He uses a hoodie and face mask when he performs on stage. When asked why he uses a mask during an interview by NRK, he stated that “It is to keep a low profile while maintaining the mental image they have given me. I think it’s pretty cool.
A little twist that makes people ask themselves questions about who really is the person behind Alan Walker.” On an episode of his Unmasked series, he stated that “The mask is more of a sign and a symbol of unity and being alike each other, rather than me being different.”
8.ILLENIUM
Nicholas D. Miller, known professionally as Illenium, is an American musician, DJ, and record producer. He has released three studio albums with his most recent, Ascend, being released in August 2019 on Astralwerks.
The album was Illenium’s first to top the BillboardDance/Electronic Albums chart and also reached his highest peak on the Billboard 200 at number 14. Several of his songs have also appeared on the BillboardHot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, including two singles in 2019 that peaked at number 3: “Good Things Fall Apart” with Jon Bellion and “Takeaway” with The Chainsmokers (featuring Lennon Stella).
Illenium has also worked on numerous notable remixes, including those for The Chainsmokers’ “Don’t Let Me Down” and Flume‘s “Say It“, the latter of which won the award for “Remix of the Year” at the inaugural Electronic Music Awards in 2017. He was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 2020 Music list.
Nicholas D. Miller was born in Chicago, United States but grew up in San Francisco. In 2008, Miller began making electronic music. In the summer of 2012, he saw Bassnectar perform at Red Rocks Amphitheatre and decided to focus on music more earnestly after that.
That year, he also suffered a heroin overdose, a fact he shared with his fans in 2018. The experience was the inspiration for his 2018 song, “Take You Down”. In 2013, Miller moved to Denver, where he continues to reside. From 2013–2014, he was enrolled in the Music & Entertainment Industry Studies (MEIS) Department at the University of Colorado Denver.
His music emphasis was Recording Arts and he attended classes for two years. He made lots of connections in the Denver music scene while taking courses in music business, performance, and recording arts. During this period he completed his first EP. He also coached lacrosse and delivered sushi to support himself.
9.SKRILLEX
Sonny John Moore (born January 15, 1988), known professionally as Skrillex, is an American record producer, DJ, musician, singer and songwriter. Growing up in Northeast Los Angeles and in Northern California, he joined the American post-hardcore band From First to Last as the lead singer in 2004, and recorded two studio albums with the band (Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count, 2004, and Heroine, 2006) before leaving to pursue a solo career in 2007.
He began his first tour as a solo artist in late 2007. After recruiting a new band lineup, Moore joined the Alternative Press Tour to support bands such as All Time Low and The Rocket Summer, and appeared on the cover of Alternative Press’ annual “100 Bands You Need to Know” issue.
After releasing the Gypsyhook EP in 2009, Moore was scheduled to record his debut studio album, Bells, with producer Noah Shain. He ceased production of the album, however, and began performing under the name Skrillex, distributing the My Name Is Skrillex EP for free download on his official MySpace page.
Subsequently, he released the Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP in late–2010 and More Monsters and Sprites EP in mid–2011, both of which have since become moderate commercial successes. On November 30, 2011, he received five Grammy Award nominations at the 54th Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist and won three: “Best Dance/Electronica Album”, “Best Dance Recording”, and “Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical”. On December 5, 2011, the BBC announced that he had been nominated for their Sound of 2012 poll.
On December 12, 2011, he was also named MTV‘s Electronic Dance Music Artist of the Year. Skrillex has won eight Grammy Awards and holds the world record for most Grammys won by an electronic dance music artist. Skrillex has collaborated with Diplo and Boys Noize to form the groups of Jack Ü and Dog Blood respectively.
It was announced on Moore’s 29th birthday, he reunited with From First to Last and released a single named “Make War”. In 2017, Skrillex produced and mixed 8, the eighth studio album by rock band Incubus. In July 2017, Skrillex released another single featuring debuting solo artist Poo Bear.
10.DASH BERLIN
Dash Berlin is a Dutch electronic music trio started in 2007 in The Hague by Eelke Kalberg and Sebastiaan Molijn. The frontman of the group is Jeffrey Sutorius, the seventh most popular DJ in the world according to DJ Mag in 2012; Kalberg and Molijn are record producers. Kalberg and Molijn left the group in 2019.
Sutorius initially started playing drums influenced by his late father who was a drummer in a jazz band, before discovering electronic music. He worked at BPM Dance and Mid-Town Records specializing in vinyl, with both stores becoming meeting places for many established Dutch DJs. Molijn and Kalberg, who were deejaying as Pronti and Kalmani at the time, have credited Sutorius as a vital source of inspiration for some of their biggest records during that time.
Kalberg and Molijn have been contributing to the international dance scene for over twenty years, with award-winning and platinum-selling hits for dance acts such as Alice Deejay, Vengaboys, Candee Jay, Pronti and Kalmani and Solid Sessions.
Their track “Better Off Alone” was one of the first trance records that became big in the U.S. and was later sampled by French superstar DJ David Guetta in his song “Play Hard” and one of America’s biggest rappers Wiz Khalifa in his breakthrough record “Say Yeah“.
They also had worked together with DJ Sander Kleinenberg on classic tracks like “This Is Miami” and “The Fruit” and remixes for major artists such as Justin Timberlake (‘Rock Your Body’ Remix winning the award for ‘Best Remix’ at the Dance Star USA Awards), Janet Jackson, BT, Usher, N.E.R.D., Lenny Kravitz, Junkie XL, Röyksopp, Mylo and Annie Lennox.[4]
On 18 June 2018, Sutorius announced his split from Dash Berlin while severing ties with Kalberg and Molijn, citing mismanagement and career neglect issues. Beginning October 2018, Sutorius has been producing and performing under his own name, while Dash Berlin continued as a duo. Sutorius later rejoined on 21 June 2019 while Kalberg and Molijn retired from Dash Berlin to pursue their own musical projects.
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