Steven Hiroyuki Aoki (/eɪˈoʊki/; Japanese:
スティーヴン・ãƒ'ãƒãƒ¦ã‚・アオã‚; born November 30, 1977)
is an American entertainer, DJ, record producer and music executive.
In 2012, Pollstar designated Aoki as the highest grossing dance artist
in North America from tours. He has collaborated with artists such as
will.i.am, Afrojack, LMFAO, Linkin Park, Iggy Azalea, Lil Jon,
blink-182, Laidback Luke, BTS, Monsta X, Louis Tomlinson, Backstreet
Boys, Rise Against, Vini Vici, Lauren Jauregui, and Fall Out Boy and
is known for his remixes of artists such as Kid Cudi. Aoki has
released several Billboard-charting studio albums as well, notably
Wonderland, which was nominated for Grammy Award for Best
Dance/Electronica Album in 2013. He is the founder of the Steve Aoki
Charitable Fund, which raises money for global humanitarian relief
organizations. In 2019, Aoki published a memoir, Blue: The Color of
Noise.Steven Hiroyuki Aoki was born in Miami, Florida, and grew up in
Newport Beach, California. He graduated from Newport Harbor High
School in 1995, where he was a player on the varsity badminton team.
He is of Japanese descent, the third child of Rocky Aoki and Chizuru
Kobayashi. His father was a former wrestler who also founded the
restaurant chain Benihana. He has two older siblings, sister Kana (who
is sometimes called by her middle name "Grace"), and brother Kevin
(owner of Doraku Sushi restaurant). His half-sister is model and
actress Devon Aoki.Aoki attended the University of California, Santa
Barbara and graduated with two B.A. degrees, one in feminist studies
and the other in sociology. In college, he produced do-it-yourself
records and ran underground concerts out of his Biko room in the Santa
Barbara Student Housing Cooperative, which was located in Isla Vista,
a section of residential land adjacent to UCSB. As a concert venue,
the apartment became known as The Pickle Patch. Aoki was also involved
in student activism at UCSB, being the founder of a Revolutionary
Anti-Imperialist League chapter on campus. By his early 20s, Aoki had
built his own record label, which he named Dim Mak â€" a reference to
his childhood hero, Bruce Lee.
スティーヴン・ãƒ'ãƒãƒ¦ã‚・アオã‚; born November 30, 1977)
is an American entertainer, DJ, record producer and music executive.
In 2012, Pollstar designated Aoki as the highest grossing dance artist
in North America from tours. He has collaborated with artists such as
will.i.am, Afrojack, LMFAO, Linkin Park, Iggy Azalea, Lil Jon,
blink-182, Laidback Luke, BTS, Monsta X, Louis Tomlinson, Backstreet
Boys, Rise Against, Vini Vici, Lauren Jauregui, and Fall Out Boy and
is known for his remixes of artists such as Kid Cudi. Aoki has
released several Billboard-charting studio albums as well, notably
Wonderland, which was nominated for Grammy Award for Best
Dance/Electronica Album in 2013. He is the founder of the Steve Aoki
Charitable Fund, which raises money for global humanitarian relief
organizations. In 2019, Aoki published a memoir, Blue: The Color of
Noise.Steven Hiroyuki Aoki was born in Miami, Florida, and grew up in
Newport Beach, California. He graduated from Newport Harbor High
School in 1995, where he was a player on the varsity badminton team.
He is of Japanese descent, the third child of Rocky Aoki and Chizuru
Kobayashi. His father was a former wrestler who also founded the
restaurant chain Benihana. He has two older siblings, sister Kana (who
is sometimes called by her middle name "Grace"), and brother Kevin
(owner of Doraku Sushi restaurant). His half-sister is model and
actress Devon Aoki.Aoki attended the University of California, Santa
Barbara and graduated with two B.A. degrees, one in feminist studies
and the other in sociology. In college, he produced do-it-yourself
records and ran underground concerts out of his Biko room in the Santa
Barbara Student Housing Cooperative, which was located in Isla Vista,
a section of residential land adjacent to UCSB. As a concert venue,
the apartment became known as The Pickle Patch. Aoki was also involved
in student activism at UCSB, being the founder of a Revolutionary
Anti-Imperialist League chapter on campus. By his early 20s, Aoki had
built his own record label, which he named Dim Mak â€" a reference to
his childhood hero, Bruce Lee.
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