Deorro
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Erick Orrosquieta |
| Also known as | TON!C |
| Born | August 30, 1991 Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Origin | West Covina, California, United States |
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| Years active | 2005–present |
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| Website | deorro |
Erick Orrosquieta (born August 30, 1991), commonly known by his stage name Deorro, is a Mexican American DJ signed to Ultra Records. He formerly used the name TON!C.
Contents
Music career
2005–12: Early beginnings
Deorro began his DJ career by playing at local gigs when he was 14. He was born in Los Angeles to Mexican parents. By the time Deorro turned 17, he was already producing his own tracks.[1] In 2012, he was asked by DJ Chuckie to remix his track "Make Some Noise". Deorro's remix landed in the top 50 on Beatport. He has since remixed tracks from multiple international famed DJs such as Steve Aoki, Laidback Luke, and Gareth Emery, among others.
2013–present: Breakthrough
In 2013, he released the track "Yee" on Hardwell's label, Revealed Recordings, which charted in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, and Switzerland. On 18 March 2014 he released the single "Freak" with Steve Aoki and Diplo. On 24 March 2014 he released the single "Flashlight" with R3hab. He released the single "Five Hours" in April 2014.[2] The track charted in Austria, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. On 17 May 2014, Deorro announced on his Twitter page he was going to take a break from DJing in order to have a bigger focus in making music and expanding his record label, PandaFunk.[3] In August 2014 he released the single "Rambo" with J-Trick. On 18 October 2014, Deorro received the award for highest new entry on the 'DJmag top 100 DJs 2014' contest, he hit spot 19. He also played a half-hour set at the 'DJmag top 100 DJs' event, which took place during ADE in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In December 2014 he released the single "Perdoname". In March 2015 he released a third version of "Five Hours" with Chris Brown titled "Five More Hours", the song has charted in Ireland, Netherlands and Sweden.
Singles
As lead artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
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| AUT [4] |
BEL [5] |
DEN [6] |
FRA [7] |
GER [8] |
NLD [9] |
NOR [10] |
POL [11] |
SWE [12] |
SWI [13] |
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| "Yee" | 2013 | 33 | 58 | — | 74 | 62 | 37 | — | — | — | 65 | Non-album singles | |
| "Freak" (with Steve Aoki and Diplo featuring Steve Bays) |
2014 | — | 118 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Flashlight" (with R3hab) |
— | 104 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Five Hours" | 37 | 7 | — | 8 | — | 68 | 17 | 17 | 45 | 60 | |||
| "Rambo" (with J-Trick) |
— | — | — | 199 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Perdóname" (featuring DyCy and Adrian Delgado) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | |||
| "Five More Hours" (with Chris Brown) |
2015 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 31 | 23 | 34 | 10 | — | 7 | 22 | ||
| "Bailar" (featuring Elvis Crespo) |
2016 | — | — | — | 9 [17] |
— | — | — | 71 | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
References
- ↑ Paramount Artists: Deorro paramountartists.com
- ↑ iTunes - Music - Five Hours - Single by Deorro
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