In January 2014, the single entered the top 5 on the Dance/Electronic chart and debuted No. "Turn Down for What" entered the top ten of the Billboard Dance/Electronic chart during the last week of December. The song was featured in a commercial for the Sol Republic DECK, a wireless speaker, which aired in October 2013. In December 2013, " Turn Down for What", DJ Snake's collaboration with Lil Jon, was released on Columbia Records. In January 2016, Forbes named him one of their "30 Under 30 In Music" for the year. In October 2015, DJ Snake and fellow electronic producer Tchami were injured in a car crash, causing them both to miss a scheduled stop at Toronto's Monster Mash festival. "Lean On" and DJ Snake's remix of AlunaGeorge's "You Know You Like It" were both top 10 Shazamed songs from Coachella 2015. He performed at the 2015 Coachella Music Festival with guest appearances by AlunaGeorge and MØ, who did vocals on " Lean On" with Major Lazer. ĭJ Snake at the Electrobeach Music Festival in 2016ĭJ Snake and Dillon Francis were alternating supporting artists on the Mothership Tour 2014 with Skrillex. In 2013, DJ Snake produced three songs with Paul "DJ White Shadow" Blair on Lady Gaga's album Artpop including " Applause", " Sexxx Dreams", and " Do What U Want". He remixed Kanye West's " New Slaves", AlunaGeorge's " You Know You Like It", Duck Sauce's "It's You", Major Lazer's " Bubble Butt" and Junior Senior's " Move Your Feet". This song was supposed to be released as a single before Interscope Records decided to stop the marketing of the album after its release. DJ Snake was co-producer for the song " Government Hooker", which was voted best song by Lady Gaga fans after the release of the album. This earned him a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year in February 2012. In 2011, DJ Snake produced for Lady Gaga's album Born This Way.
In 2005, he met his manager Steve Goncalves, who encouraged Grigahcine to begin creating his own music. In his early career, Grigahcine performed at clubs including Les Bains Douches in Paris. Of his name, Grigahcine says "When I started DJing, everyone called me 'Snake' in my city first, I was like 'DJ Snake, OK let's go for it.' The name sucks, but it's too late now." He started DJing at age 14, and later producing at 19. In his youth, Grigahcine produced graffiti art, earning him the moniker "Snake" because he was able to consistently evade the police. He cites a scene with Cut Killer in the French film La Haine as well as hip-hop artists KRS-One and Cypress Hill as early influences. Grigahcine was born in Paris to a French father and an Algerian mother and grew up in Ermont, a banlieue district outside Paris, which he describes as a ghetto. In March 2018, Billboard named DJ Snake as number nine on their 2018 ranking of dance musicians titled Billboard Dance 100. He and Dillon Francis were announced as alternating supporting artists for the summer Mothership Tour 2014 with Skrillex. On 30 April 2014, DJ Snake was labeled as an "Artist to Watch" by FoxWeekly. The single was picked up by Mad Decent, a Los Angeles-based record label run by Diplo.ĭJ Snake was announced to be working on a collaboration with Diplo, originally slated to debut in 2014 it released in 2015 as the single " Lean On" in collaboration with MØ and Diplo's Major Lazer. "Bird Machine" is a collaboration with fellow French musician Alesia. He made his international debut with the singles "Bird Machine" and "Turn Down for What" in 2013. He first achieved international attention in 2013 by releasing an instrumentation-orientated single called " Turn Down for What" (featuring Lil Jon). William Sami Étienne Grigahcine (born 13 June 1986), known by his stage name DJ Snake, is a French record producer.
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