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Film & TV
Paris, France
Known for
- DJ Snake en concert au Main Square Festival — Self2025
- Smurfs — DJ Snake (voice)2025
- "Couch" by Lena Situations — Self - Guest2025
- Stromae en intimité — Self : Interviewed2024
- Behind the beats, histoires de la pop music — Self (voice)2022
- DJ Snake à Paris La Défense Arena2020
- Omar Sy, c'est ta chance — Self2018
- DJ SNAKE @ ULTRA MIAMI 2017 — Himself2017
- Skrillex LIVE @ ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL 2015 — Self2015
- Hot Ones — Self2015
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- William Sami Étienne Grigahcine , ( 1986-06-13 ) 13 June 1986 (age 39) , Paris , France
- Genres
- EDM trap moombahton dubstep
- Occupations
- Record producer disc jockey songwriter
- Years active
- 2000–present
- Labels
- Geffen Premiere Classe Starsick Columbia Interscope Mad Decent Spinnin' Universal Music Polydor
- Website
- djsnake .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Étienne
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Algeria
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Occupation
- disc jockey
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- EDM trap music
- Record label
- Universal Music Group
- Discography
- DJ Snake discography
- Official website
- djsnake.com
- Image
- DJS-Presskit05 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1986-06-13
- Commons category
- DJ Snake
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- Template:DJ Snake
- start of work period
- 2000-00-00
- different from
- Snake
- nominated for
- MTV Video Music Awards
- social media followers
- 1830918
- birth name
- William Sami Étienne Grigahcine
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Encyclopedic overview
William Sami Étienne Grigahcine (born 13 June 1986), known by his stage name DJ Snake, is a French record producer. He was first credited with production work on several singles for other artists—including "Shut It Down" by Pitbull and "Applause" by Lady Gaga—before gaining widespread recognition for his 2013 debut single, "Turn Down for What" (with Lil Jon).
Released by Mad Decent, an imprint of Columbia Records, the song peaked at number 19 on the French SNEP singles chart, number four on the Billboard Hot 100, and received octuple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Furthermore, it was nominated for Best Music Video at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, and won Top Dance/Electronic Song at the 2015 2015 Billboard Music Awards. DJ Snake's 2015 collaborative single with label boss Diplo, "Lean On" (with Major Lazer featuring MØ), was met with similar success, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaking atop music charts in nine countries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “DJ Snake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.