Steve Aoki

Steve Aoki was created in Miami, Florida on the 30th November 1977. American electro-house musician as well as record producer, D.J. Music executive. He's the 3rd child of Chizuru Kobayashi and Rocky Aoki. His father was a wrestler who also founded the chain of restaurants Benihana. He has two brothers: Kana (sometimes called Grace) and Kevin (owner Doraku Sushi restaurant). His half-sister is Devon Aoki, a model and actress. He was born in Newport Beach, California and graduated from Newport Harbor High School, where he was a member of the varsity badminton team. He then attended UC Santa Barbara, graduating with two B.A. He graduated with two bachelor's degrees: one in feminist studies and the one in Sociology. He was a student at the college who made records on his own and staged underground performances in his Biko area at the Santa Barbara Student Housing Cooperative. It was a concert venue and the room became known as The Pickle Patch. He was active in student activism , and he founded an Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League section on campus. At the age of 20, he was running his own record label which he named Dim Mak, a reference to his hero from his childhood, Bruce Lee. The band came out with I'm in the House in March 2010 as a collaboration with the Zuper Blahq his alter-ego will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas. The track charted at No. The song reached No. 29 on the U.K. Singles Chart within its first week of launch. The track later made it into the U.K. Dance Chart & the U.K. Indie Chart, placing in the top 5 in both charts. It was seen in MTV's Jersey Shore, as well as in the feature film Piranha and the trailer for Think Like A Man. In a May 2010 interview with HitQuarters, Lucas Secon, the producer-songwriter, confirmed that he and Rivers Cuomo had just worked on a single. In 2012, Pollstar designated him as the top-grossing dancer in North America from tours. He has collaborated with artists such as Iggy Azalea, Afrojack, LMFAO, Linkin Park, Will.i.am, Lil Jon, Blink-182, Laidback Luke, BTS, Louis Tomlinson, Rise Against, Vini Vici & Fall Out Boy. He is well-known for his remixes of artists like Kid Cudi.