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Claude David Van Hung Bardy (born 28 March 1998), known by his stage name Shalito Boy, or just Shalito, is a French music producer, DJ, [| Multi- Instrumentalist], VideoMaker and Singer.

He is mainly known for his Bass Music productions, especially Tearout/[|Riddim] in which he produced notable tracks such as Warning From The Dead or Machine Era.

Early Life
Bardy was born in Montpellier to a Spanish father (David Bardy) and a Vietnamese mother (Kim Chi Nguyen) and grew up in Fabrègues, a village near Montpellier.

Born in a loving family, during childhood, he travelled the world with is parents and his youger sister Alizée.

In 2007 his parents relationship started to decline, his father struggled from severe depression and started drinking alcohol. In 2016, when Bardy's mother has definitely left te household, his father reached a point of heavy addiction drinking.

After years of combat and support from his children from 2009 until 2018, Bardy's dad finally managed to end that horrific chapters of his life.

Shalito says that "Those years were a nightmare, you know, when you going back home, your dad is coming home late at the night from work and wasted drunk and your mum is not around... and this from the age 11 to 19 years old will leave scars forever, I'm a changed man now"

Bardy's father (David Bardy) finally died of colorectal cancer in July 2023 after being diagnosed a year earlier.

Career
Shalito began is music carrer in 2014 at age 16, starting to release pop song cover on Youtube (Skinny98).

After trying multiple degree at universities such as Cinema Degree, Language degree, he decided to live Montpellier France in September 2018, having worked in a supermarket for a 8 months period to finance his moving to [| London (UK)]

From September 2018 to 2022 Shalito developped skills in electronic music, starting to DJ to some small pubs mainly in [| Soho], where he met artist such as Earl The Kid which he released a song with called "Do It Clean" and Ashxr with which he released is first success song "Dawn"

After a small escapade in Barcelona in late 2019 he came back to Montpellier from February 2020 until November 2021 where he focused on Music Production.

In November 2021 Shalito came back in London, enrolling for a 3 year degree at Point Blank Music School London which he left in early 2023 saying that "music should not have specified rules and teachers that say you're wrong should not be teacher, especially in ARTS, where creativity primes"

He came back to Montpellier in March 2023, feeling very down but determined to help his fathers with his health issues until his death few months later.

After this difficult chapter, Shalito decided to dedicate full time to music and came back with new EPs "Trash Times", "Process" and "Dawn". (including reworks of old tracks)

Personnal Life
Shalito is a huge fan of Football and sports in general, he also like making humoristic videos. He is also a great fan of FC Barcelona ] since childhood due to his Spanish origins but still support Paris Saint-Germain as a French club.