Electric dance music or better known as EDM is a range of percussive electronic music genres using a “repetitive beat” and “synthesized backing tracks”. EDM artists also perform their music live in a concert or festival setting, such as nightclubs, raves, and more famously know festivals such as Governors Ball, Coachella, and EDC (Electronic Daisy Carnival)
EDM has become more popular with these few upcoming generations. Made popular by DJs like DeadMau5, Daft Punk, Zedd and Skrillex they helped EDM hit the charts. Today I’ll be profiling Marshmello a new uprising DJ that has made a name of himself in a matter of a two years.
Marshmello like DeadMau5 and Daft Punk wears a mask, keeping his identity a mystery. His character, literally a marshmallow. He wears all white with a white bucket looking mask that consist of two X’s as eye and a smile.
Marshmello always created tracks, but started releasing music in 2016. With his single Alone, with the most hits on Spotify, coming out with over 140 million plays. Marshmello began to gain attention in 2015 by Skrillex, after he had remixed, Where Are U Now, a song Skrillex worked on with Diplo and Justin Bieber. After that Skrillex immediately, booked Marshmello to open for him in the New York Pier of Fear.
Since his debut with Skrillex, Marshmello has collaborated with many other artists, such as Anne-Marie in the song Friends, Selena Gomez in Wolves, Migos in Danger, Logic in Everyday, and so much more.
As previously stated before, like Deadmau5 and Daft Punk, Marshmello wears a mask and has his identity hidden. Though it has been assumed that Forbes has uncovered his identity, being that he is Chris Comstock, who’s other alias is known as Dotcom. In the Forbes article they make the connections with the managing company both artists use which is Red Light Management, also having the same manager Moe Shalizi. That could just be a coincidence but there are other things in the article that can be convincing that Marshmello is Chris Comstock. But that doesn’t really matter because, both Shalizi and lawyers for Marshmallow decline to release or comment on his identity.
Marshmello repeatedly announces that his identity will not be revealed by himself, and it seems he wouldn’t want it to be discovered by journalists. This can be known by in a video interview he did wit KIISFM, and also a tweet saying:
“I don’t take my helmet off because I don’t want or need fame. I’m genuinely trying to create something positive for people to connect with.”
And for the fans, I doubt they even care, who Marshmello is, all they know is he makes great music, and that is all they need, speaking as a fan of course.
Marshmello is the uprising DJ that no one should miss out on, if other artists can see the talent he has then there is no reason everyone else can’t.
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