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Erfone Ahdie (born May 21, 2001), better known by his stage name DJ Erfone, is a Scottish electronic musician, record producer, remixer and DJ. He gained recognition in 2016 after his Facebook DJ mixes went viral gaining him quick internet success.

Early life
Erfone was born on May 21, 2001 in Scotland. When he was 12, he started DJing using his sisters DJ controller and laptop. Quickly he began to teach himself how to DJ off of YouTube tutorials before a family friend named Euan started to teach Erfone the basics of DJing. This later lead him to getting his first residency at an ice disco every Saturday in Stirling, Scotland.

Career
At the age of 14 Erfone started his first social media page which was Facebook. He started to post DJ mixes for his friends to see which gained him a small fan base of 400 followers. Soon after Erfone performed a Mini Mix in his bedroom which went viral exceeding 2 million views. This boosted Erfone’s following to over 50,000 followers in the small span of a week. Erfone ran with this opportunity and started DJ livestreaming which would gain him hundreds of thousands of views each time he streamed. All of this online fame allowed him to start touring the UK and performing at his own sold out shows.

At the age of 15 he downloaded Logic Pro X and started to learn how to produce by experimenting with different genres of music such as house, EDM, future house, bassline and American hip hop. Soon after he found his own style of music which was house and bassline.

Now 18, Erfone has an online following of 150,000 followers as of August 2019 and is officially releasing music at the end of 2019, to go along with his UK tour.