List of famous male disc jockeys, listed by their level of prominence with photos when available. This greatest male disc jockeys list contains the most prominent and top males known for being disc jockeys. There are thousand of males working as disc jockeys in the world, but this list highlights only the most notable ones. Historic disc jockeys have worked hard to become the best that they can be, so if you're a male aspiring to be a disc jockey then the people below should give you inspiration.
These people, like Ill Digitz and Frazer Smith include images when available.
While this isn't a list of all male disc jockeys, it does answer the questions "Who are the most famous male disc jockeys?" and "Who are the best male disc jockeys?"- Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston (11 July 1940 ā 6 March 2005), known professionally as Tommy Vance, was an English radio broadcaster, born in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. He was one of the first music broadcasters in the United Kingdom to champion hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans. The Friday Rock Show that he hosted gave new bands airtime for their music and fans an opportunity to hear it. His radio show was a factor in the rise of the new wave of British heavy metal. He used a personal tag-line of "TV on the radio". His voice was heard by millions around the world announcing the Wembley Stadium acts at Live Aid in 1985.
- Birthplace: Oxford, England
- Don Letts is a director, actor, writer, and producer who is known for directing "Dancehall Queen," "One Love," and "Punk: Attitude."
- Birthplace: London, England, UK
- Sander Ketelaars (born 28 February 1979), better known by his stage name Sander van Doorn, is a Dutch electro house DJ and record producer from Eindhoven. Sander van Doorn began his recording career in 2004, releasing numerous tech-trance hits on Oxygen Recordings. Sander van Doorn's musical style has ranged from tech-house and progressive house during the mid-2000s to more vocal-driven electro-house and EDM throughout the 2010s. Despite being more known for DJ'ing, since 2006, he's been a regular presence on DJMag's Top 100 DJ surveys. Among his most notable remixes are Armin van Buuren's "Control Freak," Tiƫsto's "Dance4Life," Yello's "Oh Yeah," Sia's "The Girl You Lost to Cocaine," and Lady Gaga's "Marry the Night."
- Birthplace: Eindhoven, Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Birthplace: Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Theodore "Ted" RamĆ³n Stryker (born Gary RamĆ³n Sandorf) known on-air as simply "Stryker", is an American radio personality and disc jockey.
- Birthplace: Los Angeles, USA, California
- Clifford Joseph Price, MBE (born 19 September 1965), better known by his stage name Goldie, is an English musician, DJ, visual artist and actor from Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. Initially gaining exposure for his work as a graffiti artist, Goldie became well known for his pioneering role in the 1990s UK jungle, drum and bass and breakbeat hardcore scene. He released a variety of singles under the pseudonym Rufige Kru and co-founded the label Metalheadz. He would later release several albums under his own name, including the 1995 album Timeless, which entered the UK charts at number 7. Goldie's acting credits include the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, Guy Ritchie's Snatch (2000) and the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He has also appeared in a number of celebrity reality television shows, including Celebrity Big Brother 2 (UK), Strictly Come Dancing, Come Dine with Me and Maestro.
- Birthplace: United Kingdom, Walsall
- Rudolf Alexander (Ruud) de Wild (born 24 April 1969, Hilversum) is a Dutch radio host. He is also a former DJ, VJ and was one of the faces of the now-defunct television network Talpa. On 6 May 2002, when he worked for radio station 3FM, he interviewed Pim Fortuyn. After the interview De Wild and Fortuyn stepped outside where De Wild witnessed the assassination of Fortuyn. In 2004 De Wild started his show Ruuddewild.nl on Radio 538. He got a timeslot between 16.00 and 19.00. At that time he also worked for the television channel Talpa of John de Mol. He presented Big Brother 5 together with Bridget Maasland.
- Birthplace: Hilversum, Netherlands
- Sir Roger James Gale (born 20 August 1943) is a British Conservative politician. He was first elected in 1983 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Thanet in Kent.
- Birthplace: Poole, England
- Damian Higgins, better known by his stage name Dieselboy, is an American drum and bass DJ, producer,from Brooklyn. Since December 2013 he has been performing his sets on four CDJ's.Dieselboy is the founder of the Human Imprint music label in 2002, and co-founder of its sublabel SubHuman : Human Imprint (dubstep, electro) which launched in September 2010. In February 2012, Higgins co-founded Planet Human as the umbrella label for Human Imprint and SubHuman. Dieselboy was the first American to be voted into the UK-based Drum & Bass Arena Top 10 DJs 2004 online poll. His 2002 album projectHuman reached the top 10 of the Billboard Dance/Electronic chart.Higgins has also written about food for FirstWeFeast.com in 2012. He was selected as a presenter for the 7th Annual StarChefs.com International Chefs Congress (ICC) held September 30 to October 2, 2012, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.
- Birthplace: Tarpon Springs, Florida
- Kenny Robinson is a stand-up comic, actor, and occasional DJ. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he moved to Toronto in 1983 to pursue a career as a comedian.
- Birthplace: Winnipeg, Canada
- Rex Miller Spangberg (April 25, 1939 ā May 21, 2004) was an American novelist. He wrote a series of novels detailing the investigations of Jack Eichord, a fictional homicide detective who specialized in tracking down serial killers. Slob, the first novel in the series, introduced the character of Daniel Bunkowski, a half-ton killing-machine. In 1987, Miller was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for writing Slob. Miller resurrected Daniel Bunkowski for three novels, Chaingang, Savant, and Butcher, that take place outside of the continuity of the Eichord series. Miller also wrote Profane Men, a novel set during the Vietnam War, in addition to the limited-edition novel St. Louis Blues. Miller was also a popular disc jockey in the 1960s, and was considered an expert in the field of juvenile-related collectibles, particularly old time radio premiums. Miller died in Sikeston, Missouri, on May 21, 2004 at the age of 65.
- Birthplace: Sikeston, Missouri
- Anders TrentemĆøller (Danish: [anÉs ĖtĖ¢ŹantÉĖmĆøĖĖlÉ]; born 16 October 1972) is a Danish indie/electronic music composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Birthplace: Vordingborg, Denmark
- Jeff Mills (born June 18, 1963, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American DJ, record producer and composer. Thanks to his technical abilities as a DJ, Mills became known as The Wizard in the early to mid 1980s. In the late 1980s Mills founded the techno collective Underground Resistance with fellow Detroit techno producers 'Mad' Mike Banks and Robert Hood but left the group to pursue a career as a solo artist in the early 90s. Mills founded Axis Records in 1992. The label is based in Chicago, Illinois and is responsible for the release of much of his solo work. Mills has received international recognition for his work both as a DJ and producer. Mills was also featured in Man From Tomorrow, a documentary about techno music that he produced along with French filmmaker Jacqueline Caux. He continued working in film, releasing Life to Death and Back, a film he shot in the Egyptian wing of the Louvre Museum where he also had a four-month residency. In 2017 the French Minister of Culture Jack Lang awarded Mills the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his services to the arts.
- Birthplace: Michigan, USA, Detroit
- Steve Aoki brought his musical talents to a variety of films over the course of his Hollywood career. He also acted in various movies at the time, including the Kevin Kerslake musical "Electric Daisy Carnival Experience" (2012). Aoki contributed music to the horror feature "Piranha 3-D" (2010) with Elisabeth Shue. In the 2010s, Aoki's music continued to appear on the silver screen, including in films like the Jonah Hill hit comedy sequel "22 Jump Street" (2014), the Ryan Guzman drama sequel "Step Up All In" (2014) and "The Expendables 3" (2014) with Sylvester Stallone. His work was also in the Vin Diesel blockbuster action film "Furious 7" (2015). Aoki's music was most recently featured in the Amy Schumer smash hit romantic comedy "Trainwreck" (2015), "Sundown" (2015), "Why Him?" (2016), "Smurfs: The Lost Village" (2017), "Men in Black: International" (2019) and "Hustlers" (2019).
- Birthplace: Miami, Florida, USA
- DJ Logic (born 1972 as Jason Kibler) is an American turntablist active primarily in nu-jazz/acid jazz and with jam bands. Kibler was born and raised in The Bronx. An early interest in hip hop led to his using the turntables, practicing often. Kibler was also interested in funk and jazz music, and began collaborating with various musicians. His own recordings are perhaps best described as contemporary soul jazz with a strong hip hop feel. Kibler tours often with his own group, Project Logic, and has recorded or performed with Vernon Reid, moe., John Mayer, Medeski Martin & Wood, Bob Belden, Jack Johnson, Chris Whitley, Uri Caine, Christian McBride and others. On April 6, 2006, Kibler sat in with Bob Weir's Ratdog, adding his style to the famous Grateful Dead song combo "China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider". He is a founding member of The John Popper Project. On August 15, 2009, Kibler sat in with O.A.R. at Madison Square Garden, adding his style to their latest single "This Town". His mentor was Vernon Reid, and the twosome recorded and toured occasionally as the Yohimbe Brothers with various guests. Kibler has appeared on studio and live performances with Reid's solo projects, and Reid also did a guest solo on one track from Kibler's original band, Eye and I, which also featured D.K. Dyson and Melvin Gibbs, the latter of which has played on all of the DJ Logic solo releases as well.
- Birthplace: New York City, USA, New York
- Ralph Emery was an American actor and producer who appeared in "Pop! Goes the Country," and "Country Gold."
- Birthplace: McEwen, Tennessee, USA
- Chris Douglas (born 4 August 1974), known primarily for his work as O.S.T., is an electronic musician from San Francisco, California. He is noted for helping develop the style of music that came to be known as IDM.
- Ross Katz (born May 19, 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film producer, screenwriter and film director. Prior to becoming a producer, Katz was a commercial rock DJ on 94 WYSP FM in Philadelphia. He got his start in movies working as a grip on Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, then interned at Good Machine eventually becoming Ted Hope's assistant. It was Hope who encouraged Katz to try his hand at producing. His first effort was Jim Fall's Trick. The film was one of the early independents to explore homosexual cinema treated as romantic comedy. Next he co-executive produced, along with Ted Hope & Anne Carey, an HBO television mini-series of MoisĆ©s Kaufman's play The Laramie Project. The mini-series version of The Laramie Project was adapted by Kaufman and members of New York's Tectonic Theater Project who went to Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of Matthew Shepard. The piece is based on more than 200 interviews they conducted while there. It follows and in some cases re-enacts the chronology of Shepherd's visit to a local bar, his kidnap and beating, the discovery of him tied to a fence, the vigil at the hospital, his death and funeral, and the trial of his homophobic killers. The mini-series mixes real news reports with actors portraying friends, family, cops, killers, and other Laramie residents in their own words. It concludes with a Laramie staging of "Angels in America" a year after Shephard's death. Katz went on to co-produce two Academy Award Best Picture nominees; Todd Field's In the Bedroom and Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation. In 2009 Katz returned to HBO for another real-life story Taking Chance. This was his directorial debut and was praised by television critics for its "reverence and sensitivity" to the men in uniform. Based on a true story, the brief film ā it runs less than 90 minutes ā follows the journey of a fallen U.S. Marine, 19-year-old Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps, as his body makes its way across the country accompanied by a Marine escort, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl (Kevin Bacon). Strobl wrote about the experience in 2004 and his journal entry has been e-mailed and posted online, where it gained an avid following (read it at ChancePhelps.org). He was nominated for an Emmy and co-won the WGA Award (TV) in Long Form adaptation at the Writers Guild of America Awards 2009 with Michael Strobl.Katz has had three films in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (producers branch) in 2005.
- Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Sung Si-kyung (Korean: ģ±ģź²½; born April 17, 1979) is a South Korean singer and television host. He debuted in 2001 and has released seven studio albums in Korean and two studio albums in Japanese. He has also hosted and appeared on numerous South Korean variety television shows including 2 Days & 1 Night, Witch Hunt, and Non-Summit.
- Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea
- Fin Greenall, known professionally as Fink, is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and DJ born in Cornwall and currently based in Berlin and London. From 1997ā2003 he focused on electronic music and DJ'd internationally, releasing in 2000 his debut album Fresh Produce on Ninja Tune. Since the 2006 release of his album Biscuits for Breakfast, the name Fink has also referred to the recording and touring trio fronted by Greenall himself, completed by Guy Whittaker (bass) and Tim Thornton (drums). Most recently he has written in collaboration with John Legend, Banks, Ximena Sarinana and Professor Green. With Amy Winehouse he co-wrote the song "Half Time", which appears on Winehouse's posthumous collection Lioness: Hidden Treasures. In 2012 Fink collaborated and performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, resulting in the live album Fink Meets The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Fink is signed to his own label, R'COUP'D Records, a subsidiary of Ninja Tune, on which he has released his latest albums.
- Birthplace: Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Ali Fitzgerald Moore (born February 25, 1978), better known by his stage name Big Ali and formerly Breakingz and Grimer, is an American hip hop recording artist, DJ and composer born in Queens, New York. He has been based in Paris, France since 2001. He is signed to Up Music, a Warner Music label.
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
DJ Megatron
Dec. at 32 (1978-2011)Corey McGriff (August 11, 1978 ā March 27, 2011), better known as DJ Megatron, was a DJ, record producer, rapper, radio and television personality.- Birthplace: New York City, USA, New York
- Since 1994 Stef Lopazz, also known as LOPAZZ, has been part of the Heidelberg based HD800 team; he also runs the multimedia label 800achtspur, and is renowned as a film composer and Mix-Mastering-Engineer, having written, produced and engineered many internationally acclaimed records and films. In 2001, he had success with Redagain P when they remixed the Miami Vice & Magnum, P.I. themes; then, in 2003, Lopazz's self-titled EP was released by Output Recordings, followed by the singles 'Blood' (including a Tiefschwarz remix) and his first bona fide club hit āI Need Yaā (later re-licensed by French fashion label Colette). Its success led to Lopazz remixing Germany's biggest pop act Xavier Nadoo, while techno legend Sven VƤth snapped up āI Need Yaā for his Sound of the Fourth Season mix CD. Stefan's relationship with Berlin-based Get Physical Music began when he was commissioned to remix Chelonis R. Jones' 'I Don't Know'. The label went on to issue Lopazz's own vocal track āMigracionā, which was subsequently remixed by Chilean producers Luciano and Ricardo Villalobos. Releases for Pokerflat, Cocoon and Compost Black Label followed, along with remixes and productions for the likes of Isolee, DJ T, M.A.N.D.Y., Matthew Dear and Imagination.
- Birthplace: Germany
- Erick Morillo (born 26 March 1971) is a Colombian-American DJ, music producer and record label owner. Having produced under a number of pseudonyms, including Ministers De la Funk, The Dronez, RAW, Smooth Touch, RBM, Deep Soul, Club Ultimate and Li'l Mo Ying Yang, Morillo is best known for his international work in house music, in particular for the label Strictly Rhythm, and the 1993 hit "I Like to Move It", which he produced under the pseudonym Reel 2 Real, and which was featured in commercials, movies and ringtones. His label Subliminal Records has produced the #1 Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit "Fun" by Da Mob, and won the Muzik magazine "Remixer of the Year" award in 1999. Subliminal also brought attention to artists like Eddie Thoneick, Carl Kennedy and DJ DLG. He is a three-time winner of DJ Awards "Best House DJ" in 1998, 2001 and 2003 and a three-time winner of "Best International DJ" in 2002, 2006 and 2009 receiving a total of 15 nominations in all from 1998-2010.
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- DJ Hidden is an electronic music producer and DJ from Goes, Netherlands. His solo work consists of (Experimental) Drum & Bass, IDM and Crossbreed. He is one-half of Industrial Hardcore/Crossbreed duo, The Outside Agency, alongside Eye-D.
- Pascal Kleiman (born 19 April 1968) is a French DJ based in Valencia, Spain, who also produces music as 'DJ RamBam'.
- Birthplace: Toulouse, France
- Antoine Carraby (born December 11, 1967), better known by his stage name DJ Yella, is an American rapper, DJ, record producer and film director from Compton, California. He was a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru along with Dr. Dre. He later joined the pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A (originally composed of Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Arabian Prince, and Eazy-E).
- Birthplace: Compton, USA, California
Brian McGuire
Age: 50Brian McGuire is an actor who appeared in "9 Full Moons," and "Love & Air Sex."- Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
- B-Projekt born (Gurmeet Arora), 9 January 1984) is an Indian record producer and DJ. Formerly known as DJ Bunty, he started his career in the year 2000 by deejaying in night clubs in the Mumbai area and formed his own nightclub management company ā Plan B Entertainment. He continued to deejay at night clubs in Mumbai gaining popularity as "Dj Bunty", Bunty being his household name. Today B is an owner of a nightclub in Mumbai called "Tryst". B-Projekt began his musical career studying music production at the London School of Sound. After a few years of performing in Mumbai & London, he went on to produce his debut album. B-Projekt was signed by Universal Music Group in August 2009 for the release of his debut album Blindfolded. B-Projekt is one of the few DJ's from Mumbai to produce a crossover Punjabi album, collaborating with British Punjabi vocalist Juggy D from the Rishi Rich Project B-Projekt launched his debut album Blindfolded in Mumbai, Delhi, Chandigarh & London. His single "Ni Soniye" feat. Juggy D & Raja Wilco was nominated in the Ptc music awards 2010.
- Michael Robert Henrion Posner ( POHZ-nÉr; born February 12, 1988) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and record producer. Posner released his debut album, 31 Minutes to Takeoff, on August 10, 2010. The album includes the US Billboard Hot 100 top 10 single "Cooler than Me" as well as the top 20 single "Please Don't Go". In 2016 he released his second album, At Night, Alone. A remix of his 2015 single "I Took a Pill in Ibiza" from the album peaked in the top 10 on the charts in 27 countries around the world, including hitting number one in many and the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. He has written songs for a great number of fellow artists. In March 2017, he released his first book of poetry, Tear Drops & Balloons. Posner is also a member of the alternative hip-hop and R&B duo Mansionz with Matthew Musto (aka blackbear). From April 15, 2019, Mike Posner is currently taking a national walk from New Jersey to California. He will most likely reach California a year after he started. However, upon getting bitten by a rattlesnake in August 2019, Posnerās walk was put on pause.
- Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Matthew Dear (born April 4, 1979) is an American music producer, DJ and electronic avant-pop artist.
- Birthplace: Kingsville, Texas
- Gabriel Diggs is an international DJ, music producer, and radio host. He is also the younger brother of actor Taye Diggs
- Birthplace: USA, New York, Rochester
- Byron Otto Thomas (born March 20, 1969), better known by his stage name Mannie Fresh, is an American rapper, record producer and DJ who is best known for his work with Cash Money Records from 1993 to 2005 and one half of the hip hop duo Big Tymers. He produced all or most of the songs on 17 multi-platinum, platinum or gold albums for Cash Money from 1998 to 2004 before leaving the label. Mannie Fresh is currently signed to both Def Jam South and his own division company, Chubby Boy Records.
- Birthplace: USA, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Fred Everything (born FrƩdƩric Blais in Hull, Quebec) is a French-Canadian electronic musician and DJ, best known for his work in the deep house music genre.
- Birthplace: Hull, Gatineau, Canada
- James Sontag (born 18 September 1974), better known as Tiga, is a Canadian musician, DJ and record producer of electronic dance music. He has released three albums, Sexor, Ciao!, and No Fantasy Required. Sexor won the 2007 Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year. Tiga released a selection of compilations in the early 2000s, featuring mixes such as American Gigolo, DJ-Kicks: Tiga and, Mixed Emotions, which put him on the map as one of "the world's best mixers". His compilation mix, Tiga Non-Stop, was released in November 2012, and premiered Tiga's latest single "Plush". The mix also features tracks from artists such as Kindness, Duke Dumont and Blawan.
- Birthplace: Montreal, Canada
- Richard Kylea Cowie Jr, (born 19 January 1979 in London), better known by his stage name Wiley and in his early career Wiley Kat, is a British MC, rapper and record producer from Bow, East London. He is regarded as a key figure in the creation of grime music and often labelled the "Godfather of Grime". Wiley first tasted success as a member of UK garage crew Pay As U Go, with whom he had a top 40 hit, "Champagne Dance" in 2001. In the early 2000s, he independently released a series of highly influential eskibeat instrumentals on white label vinyl, most notably the first in the series "Eskimo" and rose to fame as a grime MC both for his solo work and for material released with his crew Roll Deep. Wiley has continued to make grime music while also releasing mainstream singles, such as the UK Singles Chart top 10 hits "Wearing My Rolex", "Never Be Your Woman" and his UK number-one "Heatwave". In March 2016, Wiley announced that he would be releasing an eleventh album, titled Godfather. The album was released on 13 January 2017 and entered at number 9 on the UK Albums Chart, becoming Wiley's highest-charting album of his career. On 16 February 2017, Wiley won an "Outstanding Contribution to Music" award by NME for the album. Wiley is considered a pioneer in the British underground music scene with a prolific work rate and a versatile music artist with many crossover hits. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to Music.
- Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
- Marc Steven Bell (born July 15, 1952), known professionally as Marky Ramone, is an American musician. He was the drummer of the punk rock band the Ramones, from May 1978 until February 1983, and August 1987 until August 1996. He has also played in other notable bands, Dust, Estus, Richard Hell and the Voidoids and Misfits. In 2015 Marky released his autobiography Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone.He lives in Brooklyn Heights with his wife, Marion Flynn.
- Birthplace: New York City, USA, New York
- Frazer Smith, also known as Frazier Smith, (born January 17, 1955) is an American radio personality, actor and stand-up comedian.
- Birthplace: Michigan, USA, Detroit
- Gary McCann, known professionally as Caspa (born 30 May 1982) , is a dubstep music producer from West London.
- Luke Slater (born 12 June 1968, Reading, Berkshire) is an English electronic musician, DJ and record producer, who has concentrated on techno since the beginning of the 1990s. He achieved break through commercial success with his tracks "Love" (1997) and "All Exhale" (1999). As well as releasing many tracks and albums under his own name, Slater has recorded and performed under a number of aliases, the best known being Planetary Assault Systems, L.B. Dub Corp and LSD.
- Birthplace: Reading, United Kingdom
- David Robert "Dave" Berry (born 14 September 1978 in Lewisham, London) is a British TV and radio presenter. Berry presented The Capital Breakfast Show alongside George Shelley and Lilah Parsons. It was announced in February 2017 that he would be joining Absolute Radio from 2 October 2017 to host a new weekday show.
- Birthplace: London, England
- Qusai Kheder (Arabic: ŁŲµŁ Ų®Ų¶Ų±ā, born 1978), known by the stage names Qusai and Qusai aka Don Legend the Kamelion, is a Saudi Arabian hip hop artist, singer/songwriter, record producer, rapper, television personality and DJ. He is the first professional Saudi hip hop artist.In addition to his music career, Qusai has appeared on television as the co-host of Hip Hop Na on MTV Arabia with hip-hop producer Fredwreck, and as a co-host, with Raya Abirached, on MBC4's Arabs Got Talent.
- Birthplace: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Lucas MacFadden (born October 4, 1972), better known as Cut Chemist, is an American DJ and record producer. He is a former member of Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli. He has collaborated with DJ Shadow on a number of projects. He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in 1997.
- Birthplace: USA, New York
- Daniel "Danny" Tenaglia (born March 7, 1961) is a New York-based DJ and Grammy-nominated record producer. He is also a 3 time International Dance Music Award winner, 3 time DJ Awards winner and 2 time Muzik Awards recipient.
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Damien Beebe, known professionally as DJ Day is a DJ, producer and musician from Palm Springs, California. He formed the Innernational Crew with DJ Rip One in 1995, and had subsequent appearances with Innernational on Return of the DJ III & Laid in Full. He has worked with Stones Throw recording artist Aloe Blacc and Clutchy Hopkins, as well as remixes for Quantic, Alice Russell, People Under The Stairs and more. He has shared the stage with artists from Amy Winehouse to Eminem in a career spanning the last decade and a half, as well as frequently touring the continents of Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Australia as both a solo artist and representative of Red Bull Music Academy and a regular guest of the world-famous Do Over. He has released various singles as a solo artist, most notably "Four Hills" which was nominated for "Track of the Year" by Gilles Peterson's Worldwide show on BBC Radio 1 and used by DC Shoes for their PJ Ladd ad campaign. He currently hosts a weekly Thursday night party at The Ace Hotel Palm Springs.
- Birthplace: Palm Springs, California
- James Hyman (born 18 April 1970) is a DJ, Radio & TV presenter, Music Supervisor and founder of The Hyman Archive. Hyman put aside his place at University of Manchester to work at MTV Europe in the Press office, despite his parents' misgivings (partly because of his father's glimpse of the music industry through his cousin Brian Epstein).
- Adrian Visby is an American musician, singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from New York City. Adrian started playing guitar at the age of 10 and developed a unique style under the influence of John Zorn, New Order, Marc Ribot, Nine Inch Nails, Martin Gore and Public Image Limited. His approach to production was defined by the creative schemes of Alan Moulder, Tony Visconti, Richard H. Kirk, Flood and Arto Lindsay. His Heavenade concept album under Sex Ant Toys has been classified as a blueprint vessel for the post-punk revival movement under his generation.
- Birthplace: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Orhan Terzi (born 28 June 1964), better known by his stage name DJ Quicksilver, is a German-Turkish DJ and music producer. His stage name derives from his days taking part in DJ contests, where a mercury column would gauge audience reaction.
- Birthplace: Turkey
- Aldrin Davis (born August 2, 1969), professionally known as DJ Toomp, is an American record producer, songwriter, and DJ. DJ Toomp received his start in 1985, with Atlanta MC Raheem the Dream, producing Raheemās self-titled record when he was only 16 years old. In the late 1980s, he was MC Shy-D's DJ and toured with him and the 2 Live Crew, as they performed at various venues across the country with other hip hop acts such as N.W.A. and Ice-T. After MC Shy-D left Luke Records, Toomp went on to DJ for JT Money and the Poison Clan. When the 2 Live Crew broke up he worked on an album with former group member Brother Marquis, called Indecent Exposure, under the moniker 2 Nazty; the cover billed him as a member of the Poison Clan. In 2006, Toomp partnered with hip hop veteran Bernard Parks, Jr., to launch NZone Entertainment, their very own record label.DJ Toomp began to gain greater recognition by working with southern rapper T.I., who also hails from Atlanta, Georgia. They first worked together on T.I.'s 2001 debut I'm Serious, since then the two built a friendship and a work relationship, with him becoming T.I.'s main producer. Toomp was heavily involved in T.I.'s first four albums; together they brought trap music into the mainstream. Toomp then received critical acclaim in 2006, for producing T.I.'s hit single "What You Know", which peaked at #3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, The song earned both Toomp and T.I. their first Grammy Award. In 2007, DJ Toomp was recruited by American rapper and fellow record producer Kanye West, to contribute production on his third album Graduation. Toomp, alongside West, co-produced the singles "Can't Tell Me Nothing" and "Good Life", as well as the album's outro "Big Brother", an ode to West's brotherly friendship with fellow American rapper Jay-Z.
- Peter Alan Waterman, OBE (born 15 January 1947) is an English record producer, songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast. As a member of the Stock Aitken Waterman songwriting team, he wrote and produced many hit singles. He is the owner of significant collections of both historic and commercial railway locomotives and rolling stock.
- Birthplace: United Kingdom
- George Taylor Morris (May 10, 1947 ā August 1, 2009) was an American disc jockey and radio personality who grew up with and on the radio. Initially working on AM radio, then switching to the FM radio format, Morris' career evolved to where he became a "founding father of satellite radio at Sirius XM", according to the station. After working at a number of radio stations, he received media attention in the late 1990s when he popularized the "Dark Side of the Rainbow" phenomenon, in which the 1973 Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon is said to be synchronized with the images in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Morris was the morning host of the Deep Tracks classic rock channel on XM Satellite Radio and was a host on its interview show XM Artist Confidential.
- Birthplace: King City, California
- Curtis Fisher better known by his stage name Grandmaster Caz, is an American rapper, songwriter and DJ. He currently works as a celebrity tour guide for Hush Hip Hop Tours, a hip-hop cultural sightseeing tour company in New York City, and is a Board member of The Universal Federation for the Preservation of Hip Hop Culture.
- Birthplace: New York City, USA, New York
- Scott Ialacci, professionally known as DJ Skribble (born October 10, 1968) is an American DJ, producer, remixer, radio personality and actor.
- Birthplace: Long Island, New York
- Jonas Erik Altberg (Swedish pronunciation: [Ā²juĖnas Ā²eĖrÉŖk Ā²altbƦrj]; born 22 December 1984 in Halmstad), better known by his stage name Basshunter (also stylised as BassHunter), is a Swedish singer, record producer and DJ. He began producing music under the stage name "Basshunter" in 2001. He recorded six studio albums: The Bassmachine (2004), LOL (2006), The Old Shit (2006), Now You're Gone ā The Album (2008), Bass Generation (2009) and Calling Time (2013). In addition to his own music, he has written and produced for a large number of artists. He also took part in the seventh series of Celebrity Big Brother, the Swedish FĆ„ngarna pĆ„ fortet and the British Weakest Link in 2010. He won awards such as the European Border Breakers Award, the Grammi award for Best Ringtone of the Year in 2006, and the World Music Award. He was also nominated for the BT Digital Music Awards, MTV Europe Music Awards, and Rockbjƶrnen. According to 2014 Extensive Music label figures, more than six million Basshunter records have been sold.
- Birthplace: Halmstad, Sweden
DJ Cobra
Age: 44Andrew Bagg, better known by his stage name DJ Cobra, is an open format deejay.- Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
- Jacques Braunstein (August 30, 1931 ā November 27, 2009) was a Venezuelan musician, economist, publicist and disc jockey. A native of Bucharest, Romania, Braunstein studied violin at age six and later, at age thirteen, took up the double bass. Raised in a Jewish home, he moved to Brazil with his family before settling in Caracas, Venezuela in the early 1950s, becoming a Venezuelan citizen in 1955. Fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, he studied at the Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned two post-graduate degrees in economics and chemical industry. In his new home Braunstein, along with his father, founded the firm Braunstein Asociados, an advertising agency which lasted for more than five decades. Besides this, he was an avid jazz collector and a true connoisseur of the bridge whist game, but found time to teach marketing techniques at universities throughout Venezuela. Nevertheless, he was recognized as an international ambassador for jazz and its promotion as an art form.[1] Since arriving to Venezuela, Braunstein became an active participant in the local jazz community for most of his life, as founder of his radio show Idioma del Jazz in 1955 and the Caracas Jazz Club in 1956. On August 12 of this year, he promoted the first official jazz concert in Venezuela at Caracas National Theater inviting the clarinetist and saxophonist John LaPorta, who was backed by several jazz bands during his stay in Caracas, while a selection of the repertoire performed at the concert was released under the title South American Brothers by Fantasy Records.[2] Since then, Braunstein gained quite a reputation over the years for coming up by organizing concerts with notables jazz groups led by Nat Adderley, Monty Alexander, Jeff Berlin, Eddie Bert, Randy Brecker, Louis Armstrong, Gary Burton, Charlie Byrd, Chick Corea, Paco de LucĆa, Paquito D'Rivera, Bill Evans, Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, Winton Marsalis, Woody Herman, Barney Kessel, Tito Puente, Miroslav VitouÅ” and Paul Winter, among others. For many years, Braunstein also worked as a foreign correspondent for magazines as Billboard, Down Beat and Paris Match. He also was honored by the U. S. Embassy in Venezuela on the 50th anniversary of his weekly jazz radio show, in virtue of his public profile, his love of jazz, and his becoming an ambassador of good will for the radio listeners during more than 2500 continuous editions from 1955 through 2005.[3] As Braunstein said in his own words, Paz y Jazz, he devoted a significant part of his life to studying comparative jazz styles and techniques, motivating his audiences at Idioma del Jazz, which lasted 54 years, until a few days before his death in Caracas, at the age of 78, after suffering a heart failure.
- Birthplace: Bucharest, Romania
- Axel Christofer Hedfors (born 18 December 1977), better known by his stage name Axwell, is a Swedish DJ, record producer, remixer and owner of Axtone Records. He is a member of Swedish House Mafia along with Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello. He is a two time DJ Awards winner and in 2013 he was placed 19th on the DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ Poll. He remains the 3rd most DJ-supported producer in the world for two consecutive years on 1001Tracklists Top 101 Producers Rankings.
- Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
- Alexander Ridha (born 22 August 1982), better known by his stage name Boys Noize, is a German electronic music producer and DJ. It is similar to the name of Ridha's label, Boysnoize Records, which he established in 2005. Ridha has remixed a number of other artist's work, including Snoop Dogg and Depeche Mode.
- Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
- Jordan Young, known professionally as DJ Swivel, is a Grammy Award winning Canadian music producer, mixer, audio engineer, and DJ. He is a prominent audio engineer best known for working with BeyoncƩ as her personal recording engineer. He has also worked with Jay-Z, Kanye West, Fabolous, and Jay Sean among others. He is endorsed by Harman Pro Audio and actively endorses their Lexicon branded products. His mother is Christine Bentley, former noon & 6:00 p.m. news anchor for the Toronto television station CFTO. This fact was mentioned by CFTO anchor desk reporter Andria Case during an installment of the CFTO news at noon. In 2013 he won a Grammy award for his work on Beyonce's song "Love On Top", which won for best traditional R&B performance.
- Scott Monroe Sterling (April 28, 1962 ā August 27, 1987), known by the stage name DJ Scott La Rock, was an American hip hop disc jockey (DJ) and music producer from the Bronx borough of New York City. He is notable as a founding member of the East Coast hip hop group Boogie Down Productions.
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Paul Edward Huston, (born April 2, 1967) better known by his stage name Prince Paul, is an American disc jockey, record producer and recording artist from Amityville, New York. Paul began his career as a DJ for Stetsasonic. Since then he has worked on albums by Boogie Down Productions, MC Lyte, Big Daddy Kane and 3rd Bass, among others. Major recognition for Prince Paul came when he produced De La Soul's debut album 3 Feet High and Rising (1989), in which he pioneered new approaches to hip hop production, mixing and sampling, as well as by adding comedy sketches. His first solo album, Psychoanalysis: What Is It?, came out in 1997, followed by a second album, A Prince Among Thieves, in 1999.
- Birthplace: USA, New York, Amityville
- Roberto Concina (3 November 1969 ā 9 May 2017), known professionally as Robert Miles, was an Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ. His 1995 composition "Children" sold more than 350,000 copies and topped the charts in many countries.
- Birthplace: Fleurier, Switzerland
- Bob Collins (February 28, 1942 ā February 8, 2000) was a morning DJ on WGN-720AM radio in Chicago. His show was the top-rated morning show for WGN and kept the station at the top of the ratings. His show featured various conversation as well as some music. He also made occasional appearances on WGN-TV, hosting specials such as the Auto Show.
- Antoine Konrad (born 23 June 1975 in Sissach, Basel-Landschaft), better known as DJ Antoine, is a Swiss House DJ, record producer and lifestyle entrepreneur from Basel, Switzerland. He has a number of successful single and album releases in Western Europe, in particular Switzerland, Germany and France.
- Birthplace: Sissach, Switzerland
- UroÅ” Umek (Slovene pronunciation: [ĖĆŗĖrÉŹ ĖĆŗĖmÉk]; born May 16, 1976), better known as DJ Umek or simply Umek, is a Slovenian dance music composer and DJ. Musically active since 1993, he is the owner of several techno record labels. In 1999 he founded Consumer Recreation and Recycled Loops, the former of which he co-runs with Valentino Kanzyani. Recycled Loops formed the sublabel Earresistible Musick in 2001, and in 2007 Umek founded the large techno label 1605. In 2010 he won Best Techno Artist at the Beatport Music Awards, and in 2013 he was named Best Techno DJ at the EMPO Awards. In 2013, he won Best Techno Track at the International Dance Music Awards, and the following year he won Best Techno/Tech House Artist. He has released singles and remixes on Spinnin' Records and Ultra Records. Since 2015 UMEK switched back to darker techno style and is now releasing mostly on his own imprint 1605.
- Birthplace: Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Albert James "Alan" Freed (December 15, 1921 ā January 20, 1965) was an American disc jockey. He became internationally known for promoting the mix of blues, country, rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll. His career was destroyed by the payola scandal that hit the broadcasting industry in the early 1960s.
- Birthplace: USA, Windber, Pennsylvania
- Marinus Bernardus de Goeij, known as Benno de Goeij (Dutch pronunciation: [ĖbÉnoĖ dÉ ĖÉ£uiĢÆ]; born on 19 March 1975) is a Dutch record producer. He is best known for his participation in Rank 1 with Piet Bervoets, Kamaya Painters with TiĆ«sto and Gaia with Armin van Buuren. Since 2008 de Goeij has been known as the co-producer behind the Dutch trance acts Armin van Buuren and Jochen Miller.
- Birthplace: Oud-Beijerland, Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Mr. DJ (born David Sheats) is a Grammy Award-winning American hip-hop record producer and DJ from Atlanta, Georgia. He and OutKast members Big Boi and AndrƩ 3000 make up the record production company Earthtone III.
- Sven VƤth (born 26 October 1964) is a German DJ/producer and three time DJ Awards winner whose career in electronic music spans well over 30 years. The single āElectrica Salsaā with OFF launched his career in 1986. Lovingly referred to as āPapa Svenā by his fans, Sven VƤth has made his mark in the music community by being one of Germanyās āpop starsā in the nineties, running two famous night clubs in Germany, and starting his own company Cocoon, which encompasses a booking agency, record label, and a branch for events. He is recognized for cultivating the underground electronic music scene not just in Germany but in Ibiza as well, with his own night at Amnesia for eighteen years and after-parties at creative locations around the island. Sven VƤth is a major proponent of vinyl, using only two decks and a mixer for his extensive DJ sets, his longest set having been 30 hours.
- Birthplace: Frankfurt, Germany
- Nicolas Jean-Pierre Dresti (born 5 March 1975), better known by his stage name Space Cowboy, is a French-British singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer. Born in France and raised in England, Dresti first recorded in 1992 under the name of Vibes, and recorded two tracks. He then changed his stage name to Nicky Fabulous and produced a four track extended play, Pussy Galore in 1995. He has recorded under various pseudonyms including: DJ Supreme, Kings of Rhythm, Loop Da Loop, and DJ Chrome. In 2002, Dresti changed his stage name to Space Cowboy and did a cover of Prince's song, "I Would Die 4 U." In 2003, Space Cowboy debuted his first studio album Across the Sky. On 22 June 2005, he released his second full-length album Big City Nights and his third album, Digital Rock, the next year. Digital Rock Star, a re-release of Digital Rock, debuted as his fourth studio album on 20 October 2009.
- Birthplace: Paris, France
- Timothy William Westwood (born 3 October 1957) is an English DJ and presenter of radio and television. He is often referred to by other DJs and artists appearing on his shows simply as Westwood. He presented the MTV UK show Pimp My Ride UK. In 2013, Westwood left BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra after nearly twenty years and returned to Capital Radio.
- Birthplace: Lowestoft, England
- Sebastian Carmine Ingrosso (born 20 April 1983) is a Swedish DJ, actor and record producer. He is also a member of the electronic music supergroup Swedish House Mafia, together with friends Axwell and Steve Angello.
- Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
- Ronald Rummell Coleman (born August 19, 1973), better known for his stage name OG Ron C, is an American record producer, radio personality, DJ, and entertainment and management company executive, who currently signed to OVO Sound and is also an on-air DJ for KQBT 93.7 The Beat. He is the owner of the Houston-based urban music online radio station ChopNotSlop Radio, former DJ of Southern rappers Chamillionaire and Slim Thug. Along with Michael 5000 Watts, he co-founded Swishahouse Records and helped jump-start the careers of Slim Thug, Chamillionaire, Paul Wall and Mike Jones. The leader and founder of The Chopstars, he was the first Houston DJ to receive his own day (Sept 4) when he got a proclamation from Mayor Sylvester Turner. He is most known for his F-Action (Fuck Action) Series Mixtape which features R&B songs Chopped and Screwed and to date has over 4,200 mixtapes and albums, both at regular speed and chopped and screwed speed. He has sold over 22,000,000 mixtapes and albums to date. He also is the founder of Chopnotslop Radio a 24-hour "Screwed" Radio station dedicated to DJ Screw.
- Birthplace: Houston, Texas
- James Scheffer (born June 8, 1970), professionally known as Jim Jonsin, is an American record producer, songwriter, businessman and DJ from South Florida. Jonsin has collaborated with numerous artists, including BeyoncƩ, Kelly Rowland, Usher, Lil Wayne, Kid Cudi, Eminem, Yelawolf, Nelly, T.I., Danity Kane and Jamie Foxx, among others. Jonsin won a Grammy in 2009, for Best Rap Song for Lil Wayne's "Lollipop". That year he was also nominated for his production on T.I.'s "Whatever You Like", which also garnered a nomination for Best Rap Song.Jonsin has contributed production to albums including BeyoncƩ's I Am... Sasha Fierce (2010 Best Contemporary R&B album), Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III (2008 Best Rap Album), Usher's Raymond v. Raymond (2011 Best Contemporary R&B album), and Usher's "There Goes My Baby" (2011 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance), and Eminem's Recovery (2011 Best Rap Album and Album of the Year).In 2006, Jonsin launched Rebel Rock Entertainment, his own record label imprint and subsequently signed a then unknown musician by the name of B.o.B. Jonsin then partnered with Atlantic Records, and later Grand Hustle, in a joint venture deal to work on B.o.B.'s debut album, The Adventures of Bobby Ray (2010). The album, which was executive produced by Jonsin and T.I., debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200.He also signed the production duo, Finatik and Zac, and Danny Morris to his production company, Rebel Rock Productions. In addition to his ventures in music, Jonsin has recently entered into the field of professional racing by forming his own motorsports team, Rebel Rock Racing. Jonsin will be driving a Porsche 911 in the upcoming Grand-am Road Racing series with co-driver D.J. Randall.
- Birthplace: New York City, USA, New York
- Brano JakuboviÄ is a disc jockey, keyboardist, percussionist and record producer.
- Marco "Benny" Benassi (born 13 July 1967) is an Italian DJ, record producer and remixer. He is best known for his 2002 summer club hit "Satisfaction.āHe started his career as DJ along with his cousin Alessandro "Alle" Benassi, forming the electronica duo Benassi Bros. The following year, the debut album of the Benassi Bros., Pumphonia, was released. Their track "Illusion" became very popular in the American club scene, finally peaking at number 4 on Hot Dance Club Play. In 2008, his remix of Public Enemy's Bring the Noise won the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording at the 50th Grammy Awards.
- Birthplace: Milan, Italy
- Zach Sciacca, better known as DJ Z-Trip, is an American DJ and producer. He is a pioneer of the mashup movement.He was the 2009 recipient of the "America's Best DJ Award". As a producer he has worked with artists across different genres including LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Kasabian and Dan the Automator. As of 2012, he has also been featured as LL Cool J's touring DJ. He collaborated with Talib Kweli on the mixtape Attack the Block. In 2012, Z-Trip launched a new mixer with Rane and Serato called the 62-Z.
- Birthplace: Phoenix, Arizona
- Vincente de Teba Kƶlterhoff (born October 18, 1978), better known as Frauenarzt (German for gynaecologist, literally "The Women's Doctor"), is a German rapper from Berlin-Tempelhof, also known as "DJ Kologe," "MC Digital F,", "Arzt," "Gynniko," or "GĆ¼nther." Frauenarzt was well known for his sexually explicit, Miami bass style music. Since 2008 he began to produce Ghetto Tech songs, together with Manny Marc as duo Die Atzen. In 2009, the duo got their breakthrough with the hit single "Das geht ab," following that with "Disco Pogo". In 2014, he published the albums R.A.P (as DJ Monoton K & MC Digital F - DJ Korx and Frauenarzt) and Tanga Tanga 3, attaching to his two earlier released albums Tanga Tanga (2000) and Tanga Tanga 2003. The same year, he announced his new solo album for the year 2015.
- Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
- Antony Kenneth Blackburn (born 29 January 1943) is an English disc jockey. He first achieved fame broadcasting on the pirate stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s, before joining the BBC. He was the first disc jockey to broadcast on BBC Radio 1 at its launch at the end of September 1967, and has had several stints working for the corporation. He has also worked for Capital Gold and Classic Gold Digital, and currently BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Berkshire, and KMFM West Kent and has had a singing career, the latter of which he often reminds his listeners.
- Birthplace: Guildford, England
- Hip Hop musician living in Los Angeles.
- Birthplace: California
- Ingo Kunzi (born 7 November 1966) is a German trance producer and DJ, best known for his work under Ayla and DJ Tandu. The Ayla name was inspired by the name of a girl in the recording studio during his first Ayla recording. Kunzi is also related to other projects including Elastique Culture, Tarot and Intrance.
- Towa Tei (ćć¤ć»ćć¦ćÆļ¼é ę±åļ¼, Tei TÅwa, born Dong-hwa Chung; September 7, 1965) is an artist, record producer and DJ born in Yokohama, Japan. Towa debuted as a member of Deee-Lite, from the US label Elektra Records in 1990 and shot to fame via their international hit single, "Groove Is In the Heart". He made his solo debut with the album Future Listening! in 1994. He has since relocated back from New York to rural Nagano prefecture in Japan.His concept party, "Hotel H", started in 2009 as a social spot for music industry people in Tokyo.
- Birthplace: Yokohama, Japan
- Bogdan IrkĆ¼k a.k.a. BULGARI (ŠŠ¾Š³Š“Š°Š½ ŠŃŠŗŃŠŗ Š°.Šŗ.Š°. ŠŠ£ŠŠŠŠ Š) is a Bulgarian musician/producer/DJ. He has previously performed under the name BULGARI.
- Birthplace: Sofia, Bulgaria
- Randy Katana (born Randy Joubert on 14 March 1965 in Saint Martin (Netherlands Antilles)) is a popular Tribal-Tech-Trance DJ. He is also known as Phantom, Noski, Katana, and DJ Randy. He is a prominent producer, and a pioneer of the Tribal-Tech-Trance genre, hitting hard on the trance club scene with a track called Play it Loud. It was followed up with many remixes, including the appropriately named Play it Louder. His previous tracks, One solid wave" and "In Silence, were also huge successes, being played by DJs such as Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren, Tiƫsto, and were also featuring on many CD compilations.
- Birthplace: Saint Martin (Island)
- DJ Tonka (born June 24, 1973 in Mainz, West Germany; real name Thomas-RenƩ Gerlach), is a German electronic music artist. He is also known as Tonka, Chip Tunes, and Thomastic.
- Birthplace: Mainz, Germany
Kevin Greening
Dec. at 44 (1962-2007)Kevin Greening (30 December 1962 ā 29 December 2007) was a British radio presenter, who co-hosted The Radio 1 Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 1 with Zoe Ball from October 1997 to September 1998.- Birthplace: Kent, England
- Bradley John McIntosh (born 8 August 1981), also known as City Boy, is an English-Jamaican singer, rapper, record producer and former actor. He was a member of the pop group S Club where he enjoyed five years of hit singles, arena tours and awards. 2008-2015 he was member of spin-off group S Club 3.
- Birthplace: England, London
- Martin Laurent Picandet (French pronunciation: ā[maŹtÉĢ lÉŹÉĢ pikÉĢde]; born 22 September 1976), better known by his stage name Martin Solveig (French: [maŹtÉĢ sÉlvÉÉ”]), is a French DJ, singer-songwriter and record producer. He hosts a weekly radio show called C'est La Vie on radio stations worldwide, including Radio FG in his homeland. Born in Paris, he has been active since 1994. Solveig manages his own label called Mixture Stereophonic and was ranked number 29 in the 2011 DJ Mag Top 100 DJs. He has collaborated with David Guetta, Jax Jones (under their alias Europa), Laidback Luke, Dragonette, Kele of Bloc Party and Madonna.
- Birthplace: Paris, France
- Dominik Eulberg, born in 1978 in Westerwald, Germany is an electronic music artist and disc jockey who has released numerous singles as well as full-length albums on labels such as Cocoon Recordings and Traum Schallplatten. He occasionally works as a park ranger in German National parks, an occupation he plans to pursue full-time in the near future after retiring from music.
- Birthplace: Westerwald, Germany
- Yves Mondesir (born October 12, 1975), better known by his stage name DJ Whoo Kid, is an AmericanāHaitian Hip Hop DJ. He is currently signed to G-Unit Records and its subsidiary label, Shadyville Entertainment. He is the host of The Whoolywood Shuffle on Sirius/XM Radio Shade 45, and in March 2009. His productions often use a sound clip of shouting his DJ name, with an echo effect. He's had two albums chart on the Billboard 200, XXL Presents: Bad Season with Tech N9ne (#118 in 2011) and The Whoodlum Ball with Smith and Hay and Ranna Royce (#156 in 2018).
- Birthplace: New York City, USA, New York
- Marc "The Cope" Coppola is an American actor and DJ working for KGB-FM in San Diego, California and WAXQ and WLTW in New York City.
- Birthplace: New York City, USA, New York
- Oneal Bryan, better known by his stage name Elephant Man is a Jamaican dancehall musician and singer.
- Birthplace: Kingston, Jamaica
- Christopher George Manak, better known by his stage name Peanut Butter Wolf, is an American disc jockey and record producer from San Jose, California. He is based in Los Angeles, where he moved to in 2000. He is the founder of Stones Throw Records.
- Birthplace: San Jose, USA, California
- Billy Werner is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and DJ. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the post-hardcore bands Saetia and Hot Cross.
- Bill Allen (aka "Hossman" or "Hoss"; born William Trousdale Allen III, December 3, 1922 ā February 25, 1997) was an American radio disc jockey who attained fame from the 1950s through the 1990s for playing rhythm and blues and black gospel music on Nashville radio station WLAC.Allen was the youngest of a quartet of disc jockeys known as "The 50,000 Watt Quartet." It included Gene Nobles, "John R." (Richbourg), and Herman Grizzard. Allen had the longest career of any. He worked for radio stations for 45 years before his 1993 retirement. Like Richbourg, from the 1960s through the 1980s, Allen was involved with Nashville's small but vibrant blues and gospel music scenes.
- Birthplace: Gallatin, Tennessee
Sam Spiegel
Age: 45Sam Spiegel is an American DJ, producer, composer, and director from Rockville, Maryland who grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. As a child, Spiegel studied classical voice, cello, and flute. By his teens, he enjoyed hip hop music. In addition to creating his own material, Spiegel has worked with musicians such as Kanye West, Ben Lee, Maroon 5, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. He has scored commercials for companies including Converse, Levi's, Reebok, ESPN, T Mobile, Jose Cuervo, and Saturn. His production company scored the video game Skate 2. Though he attempts to create music free of record label restraints, Spiegel also licenses his songs whenever possible so as to maximize exposure for his work. He produces albums under the name Squeak E. Clean.Spiegel is the brother of film director Spike Jonze. They collaborated on the Adidas TV commercial Hello Tomorrow, for which Spiegel created the score sung by Karen O. The titular song briefly reached #1 on the iTunes singles chart. Spiegel also wrote the score for Jonze's 2010 short film I'm Here, and produced an original song with Ape Drums featuring Assassin for Jonze's Kenzo World advertisement.Over the past decade, Sam has certified himself as one of the premiere creative minds throughout the international music community. He began his career as a DJ but quickly found himself in the studio producing music for and collaborating with many remarkable musicians while simultaneously establishing a name for himself as a film score composer. Sam has continued his passion for directing into the 2019 year, working on various projects, most recently, creating, directing and writing āWu-Tang in Space Eating Impossible Slidersā a branded content mini web series starring Wu-Tang Clan. Sam looks forward to pursuing his love of directing.- Birthplace: New York
- Dave Dresden is an American electronic dance music DJ and producer, co-founder of the collaborative acts Gabriel & Dresden with Josh Gabriel, and Dresden and Johnston with Mikael Johnston of Mephisto Odyssey fame.
- Bart Claessen (Dutch pronunciation: [ĖbÉrt ĖklaĖsÉ(n)]; born 22 January 1980, Asten, Netherlands) is a Dutch dance DJ. He is best known for the techno songs "On the Move" and "Infected" (both 2001 and as Barthezz), which reached numbers 18 and 25 in the UK Singles Chart respectively.He has released a number of tracks under his own name, most notably "First Light" (2007) and "Madness" (2008). He has made numerous appearances at nightclubs across Europe.
- Birthplace: Asten, Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Jimmy Young
Age: 103Sir Leslie Ronald Young, (21 September 1921 ā 7 November 2016), known as Jimmy Young, was an English singer, disc jockey and radio personality. Early in his career in the 1950s he had two number ones, "Unchained Melody" and "The Man from Laramie", both in 1955, and several other top ten hits in the UK chart, but he became better known for his long-running show on BBC Radio 2.- Birthplace: Cinderford, United Kingdom
- John David Robb (born 4 May 1961 in Fleetwood, Lancashire) is an English music journalist and singer. He writes for and runs the Louder Than War website and Louder Than Words monthly music magazine. He has written several books on music and occasionally makes media appearances as a music commentator. He is also the vocalist in the punk rock band Goldblade and bassist and vocalist in post punk band The Membranes. His sister is Caroline Kende-Robb the boss of CARE in August 2018, before that she was the Executive Director of the Africa Progress Panel, a foundation chaired by Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations. In 2014 he started and currently runs the biggest music and books and music writing festival in the UK called Louder Than Words held in Manchester every November. This year he will launch his own vegan festival in Manchester which will be the biggest event of its kind in the NW of England. He is also in demand as a TEDx speaker and spoken word artist in demand across Europe.
- Birthplace: Fleetwood, United Kingdom
- Joseph Edward Nichols (born November 26, 1976) is an American country music artist. Between 1996 and 2001, he held recording contracts with the Intersound and Giant labels. In 2002, he signed with Universal South Records, now known as Show Dog-Universal Music. Nichols began his career with The Rodeo Band, playing in high school gymnasiums and small clubs. Throughout the course of his career, Nichols has released nine studio albums: Joe Nichols (1996), Man with a Memory (2002), Revelation, A Traditional Christmas (both 2004), III (2005), Real Things (2007), Old Things New (2009), Crickets (2013), and Never Gets Old (2017). These albums have produced over 14 Top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, including the Number One singles "Brokenheartsville", "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off", "Gimmie That Girl", "Sunny and 75", and the RIAA GOLD-certified single "Yeah", as well as five other Top 10 entries. In October 2012, Nichols signed to Red Bow, a new partnership of Broken Bow Records and RED Distribution.
- Birthplace: USA, Arkansas
- Birthplace: Vancouver, Canada
- Lawrence Muggerud (born January 28, 1968), better known by his stage name DJ Muggs, is an American DJ and record producer. He produced tracks for Funkdoobiest, House of Pain, Dizzee Rascal, U2, Depeche Mode, Die Antwoord and more. He is a current member of hip hop group Cypress Hill, trip hop band Cross My Heart Hope To Die, and the leader of Los Angeles art collective Soul Assassins.
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Birthplace: Weslaco, Texas
- Jan Lamb Hoi-fong (born 28 January 1967) is a Hong Kong DJ, singer and actor. Lamb is the elder brother of Jerry Lamb and younger brother of singer and radio personality Sandy Lamb. He formed a comedic musical duo during the late 1980s with fellow actor and comedian Eric Kot, called Softhard). His wife Cass Phang is a singer.
- Birthplace: Hong Kong, China
- Nicholas Peter Andrew Grimshaw (born 14 August 1984) is an English television and radio presenter. He is best known for having hosted a variety of shows on BBC Radio 1 including his current Drivetime show, and The Radio 1 Breakfast Show between 2012 and 2018. He is also known for his Channel 4 roles in T4 and The Album Chart Show. In 2015, he was a judge on the twelfth series of The X Factor
- Birthplace: England, Oldham
- Kim Renard Nazel (born June 17, 1965), better known by his stage names Arabian Prince or Professor X, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and DJ. He is best known as a founding member of N.W.A.
- Birthplace: Compton, California
- Donald Earl Cannon (born August 2, 1979), is an American record producer and DJ. Cannon has produced for artists including Lil Uzi Vert, 50 Cent, Logic, Jeezy and others.
- Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Mustafa GĆ¼ndoÄdu (born 2 October 1966), best known under his stage name Mousse T., is a German DJ, record producer, film composer and judge on season 15 of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol. He is best known for the 1998 house hit "Horny '98" (famous for the music hook "I'm horny") and for his collaboration with Tom Jones on the 2000 hit "Sex Bomb", from Jones' 1999 album Reload.
- Birthplace: Hagen, Germany
John Peel
Dec. at 65 (1939-2004)John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, (30 August 1939 ā 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in a multitude of genres including pop, dub reggae, punk rock and post-punk, electronic music and dance music, indie rock, extreme metal, and British hip hop. Fellow DJ Paul Gambaccini described Peel as "the most important man in music for about a dozen years". In 2012 he was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork ā the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular "Peel sessions", which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that would later achieve great fame. Another popular feature of his shows was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year.Peel appeared occasionally on British television as one of the presenters of Top of the Pops in the 1980s, and he provided voice-over commentary for a number of BBC programmes. He became popular with the audience of BBC Radio 4 for his Home Truths programme, which ran from the 1990s, featuring unusual stories from listeners' domestic lives.- Birthplace: Heswall, United Kingdom
- Tony Simon (born October 8, 1976), better known by his stage name Blockhead, is an American hip hop record producer and disc jockey from Manhattan, New York. Aside from his solo efforts released on the Ninja Tune label, he is most associated with producing tracks for Aesop Rock. He has been a member of the groups such as Party Fun Action Committee and The Mighty Jones.
- Ricardo Villalobos (born 6 August 1970) is a Chilean-born German electronic music producer and DJ. He is well known for his work in the minimal techno and microhouse genres, and is one of the most significant figures in today's minimal techno scene.
- Birthplace: Santiago, Chile
- Paul Kalkbrenner is a German live act, producer of electronic music, and actor from Berlin. Because he breaks down his tracks into elements that are reassembled onstage, Kalkbrenner is considered a live act, as opposed to a DJ. He is most known for his single āSky and Sand,ā which sold over 200,000 copies, went platinum, and was highly charted in countries such as Belgium and Germany. He is also known for portraying the main character Ickarus in the movie, āBerlin Callingā, which ran for several years at Kino Central in Berlin.
- Birthplace: Leipzig, Germany
- James Alexander Goodale Holden (born 7 June 1979) is a British electronic music artist and DJ.
- Birthplace: Exeter, United Kingdom
- Todd N. Terry (born April 18, 1967) is an American DJ, record producer and remixer.
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Joshua Winkelman (born April 20, 1970), better known by his stage name Josh Wink, is an American electronic music DJ, label owner, producer, remixer, and artist. He is a native of Philadelphia, United States. A pioneering DJ in the American rave scene during the early 1990s, Wink was the most prominent exponent of the tribal forms of techno and house in the U.S. In 1995, he released several hits, including "Don't Laugh" (as Winx), "I'm Ready" (as Size 9) (which hit number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart), and "Higher State of Consciousness," which topped the dance charts in Europe. He has had many club hits such as "How's Your Evening So Far?" (samples Lil Louis's 'French Kiss') and "Superfreak (Freak)" and has also gained a lot of attention for his remixes of Stabbing Westward, FC Kahuna, Paul Oakenfold, Moby, Towa Tei, Ladytron and Depeche Mode, among others.
- Birthplace: USA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Eric San (born December 5, 1974), aka Kid Koala, is a world-renowned scratch DJ, music producer, film composer, video game composer, multimedia-performer and award winning graphic novelist. He has released six solo albums (on Arts & Crafts and Ninja Tune), the most recent being Music To Draw To: IO featuring Trixie Whitley. He has also released two graphic novels: Nufonia Must Fall and Space Cadet. He has also been involved in collaborations such as Gorillaz, Deltron 3030, and The Slew. Kid Koala has toured with the likes of Radiohead, the Beastie Boys, Arcade Fire, Money Mark, A Tribe Called Quest, Mike Patton, DJ Shadow, and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. He has contributed to scores for the films Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Looper, The Great Gatsby and Baby Driver. He has composed music for The National Film Board of Canada, The Winter Olympics, the Cartoon Network, Sesame Street, and Adult Swim. He has also been commissioned to create music for runway shows for Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten. Kid Koalaās unforgettable live shows range from silly touring turntable carnivals like Vinyl Vaudeville (including dancers and giant puppets) to quiet-time events like Satellite Turntable Orchestra, and Nufonia Must Fall, a live animated graphic novel performed, filmed, projected, and scored in real time by a team of 15 using multiple cameras, miniature sets, puppets, a string quartet, and Kid Koala on piano, turntable and percussion. He lives in Montreal with his wife and two daughters.
- Birthplace: Vancouver, Canada
- DJ Puzzle (real name Jason Everette Donnelly) is a Los Angeles-based American DJ, composer, music producer, remixer, and sound designer. He founded Peace Love Productions in 2001, a producer of royalty-free sounds for loop based music software, which led to the beginning of his professional career in music. He sold Peace Love Productions to Mbira Technologies in 2008 and started a new company Soundtrack Loops with business partner Matthew Yost. In 2009 he signed a publishing contract with Reverbnation and APM Music in Hollywood to be one of 13 artists chosen for the Reverbnation music library. Since then he has composed songs for TV shows including Wicked Tuna and an Oculus VR exclusive virtual reality video game called Damaged Core by High Voltage Software.
- Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
- Marco V (born Marco Verkuylen; pronounced [ĖmÉrkoĖ vÉrĖkÅylÉ(n)], April 3, 1967, Heeswijk-Dinther) is a Dutch electronic music DJ.
- Birthplace: Heeswijk-Dinther, Netherlands