Steve Aoki (born November 30, 1977) is a DJ and music producer from the United States. Aoki was named the highest-grossing electronic dance music artist in North America by Pollstar in 2012.
Will.i.am, Alan Walker, Afrojack, LMFAO, Tini, Linkin Park, AGNEZ MO, Iggy Azalea, Grandson, Lil Jon, blink-182, Taking Back Sunday, Laidback Luke, BTS, Monsta X, Louis Tomlinson, Backstreet Boys, Rise Against, Vini Vici, Lauren Jauregui, and Fall Out Boy are among his collaborators.
Who is Steve Aoki?
Steve Aoki grew up in Newport Beach, California after being born in Miami, Florida. In 1995, he graduated from Newport Harbour High School, where he was a member of the varsity badminton team. He is the third child of Rocky Aoki and Chizuru Kobayashi of Japanese origin. His father was a former wrestler who also started the Benihana restaurant brand. He has two older siblings, Kana (often referred to by her middle name “Grace”) and Kevin (owner of Doraku Sushi restaurant). Devon Aoki, a model and actress, is his half-sister.
Aoki earned two B.A. degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara, one in women’s studies and the other in sociology. In college, he made DIY records and organized underground concerts from his Biko room in the Santa Barbara Student Housing Cooperative, which was located in Isla Vista, a residential neighborhood adjacent to UCSB. The flat became known as The Pickle Patch as a concert venue.
Aoki was also involved in student action at UCSB, where he founded a chapter of the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League. By his early twenties, Aoki had established his own record label, Dim Mak, named after his childhood hero, Bruce Lee.
What are some of Steve Aoki top songs?
Below are some of the famous singer’s top songs:
Just Hold On, Beat Down, Boneless, Dope Girlz, Ladi Dadi, I’m in the House, Cude the Kid, Nataaoki, Waste it on me, No Beef, Tornado, MIC Drop
What are some of Steve Aoki top awards?
Aoki has received or been nominated for several industry accolades, both in annual competitions and magazine rankings. In 2007, he was named BPM Magazine’s Best Party Rocker DJ, Paper Magazine’s Best DJ of the Year, and the Ibiza Awards’ Best Set of the Season. In 2012, he was ranked No. 15 in DJ Magazine’s Top 100 DJs and was crowned America’s #2 Best DJ. In 2012, he received an EDM Effect Woodie Award from MTVu, and the following year, he received his first Grammy nomination.
Aoki finished sixth in the 2013 America’s Best DJ competition held by DJ Times magazine, and eighth in 2013 and 2016. He placed tenth in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs competition in 2014, 2015, and 2017. Aoki was awarded two Guinness World Records in 2014: the “longest crowd cheer” and the “most amount of glow sticks for thirty seconds.”
On May 21, 2015, Aoki played at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami Beach. He also holds the Guinness World Record for “most traveled musician in one year,” having performed 161 gigs in 41 countries in 2014.
Aoki has volunteered for several charities. EDM.com ranked him first among the 11 most generous EDM producers. He founded the Steve Aoki Charitable Fund to benefit global humanitarian assistance organizations and medical research. Aoki’s touring events, “memorabilia auctions,” and collaborations with other artists are among the organization’s fundraising efforts.
In early 2015, he was named a Best Buddies Global Ambassador, a non-profit organization dedicated to young people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. At the International Dance Music Awards at the time, MTV Latin America presented Aoki with the Chiuku Award for humanitarian activities.
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