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== Fintan O Neil, (born 28 September 1986), known professionally as DJ O Neil (pronounced dee-jay-o-neel), is a Irish DJ, remixer, model, and record producer.[1] DJ O Neil ranked No. 13 on the Top 100 DJs list by DJ Magazine in 2011,[2] and ranked even highe ==

<!-- This will add a notice to the bottom of the page and won't blank it! The new template which says that your draft is waiting for a review will appear at the bottom; simply ignore the old (grey) Fintan O Neil, (born 28 September 1986), known professionally as DJ O Neil (pronounced dee-jay-o-neel), is a Irish DJ, remixer, model, and record producer.[1] DJ O Neil ranked No. 13 on the Top 100 DJs list by DJ Magazine in 2011,[2] and ranked even higher coming at No. 3 on the Top 100 DJs list by DJ Magazine in 2012[3]. Contents [hide] 1 Early life 1.1 Influences 2 Music 2.1 Levels 2.2 2012-present 3 Discography 4 References 5 External links [edit]Early life Early Life Fintan O Neil was born on 28 September 1986 in Sligo, Ireland. In 2003 he released a collaboration with DJ John Dahlbäck, titled "Power Of Techno." He additionally worked on projects with internationally-recognized DJs Tiësto and Sebastian Ingrosso.[4] While his work is primarily electronic techno tracks, EMI released a vocal version of his track "Shomkin," titled "Cmon We Go Shmokin."[5], reached the top 20 in several countries including Belgium, France, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Sweden. He also remixed Nadia Ali's classic single "Rapture" for her album Queen of Clubs Trilogy: Onyx Edition. In October 2005 Fintan signed with the European A&R team with EMI Music Publishing, one of the recording industry's "big four". House Party In Shligo In 2011, his collaboration track, "I Love Amsterdam", with David Guetta was nominated for a Grammy award under the category for Best Dance Recording.[6] His track 'Badger' was sampled by Mary O Dea on single "Leave It Out". The sampling was not accredited and led to controversy as Fintan attempted to block the single's release. However, the matter was resolved outside of court with representatives stating "that Mary and Fintan will work together on the forthcoming single of Badger". [7] In 2011, DJ O Neil released "House Party In SHligo" (sampling the song "Something's on Me" by Etta James), which reached the top ten in India, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and topped the charts in Hungary, Norway and Sweden. Influences DJ O Neil's influences include Tiësto, Daft Punk, Laidback Luke, Eric Prydz, Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, Deadmau5 and Axwell. "I’ve always been into music, and growing up with older siblings. I’ve also had loads of different influences when it comes to my music taste. There are loads of other people that have influenced me but I think the biggest inspirations I’ve had aside from my manager has been the Swedish House Mafia guys and PJ Fingers O Connell, they were the ones who first got me into house!" – DJ O Neil April 2011[8] Music DJ O Neil's most notable song has been the single "House Party In SHligo" which was released officially 29 Oct 2011. This sample was also used by Drum and Bass producer Logistics - "Call Me Back" and Flo Rida in his single "Shligo Feeling", which was produced by Dr. Luke and Cirkut. It bears a close resemblance to the "Shligo" song. In the Britain's Got Talent semi-final, Greig Stewart performed this song on laser harp. 2012-present On 23 March 2012,DJ O Neil's unsigned single "Skhy Dance" was previewed on Pete Tong's show on BBC Radio 1. At Ultra Music Festival 2012 he played a teaser of his remix of Ruth-Anne's "All You Need Is Love". Also,DJ O Neil played two new remixes, Madonna's "Girl Gone Wild" titled "DJ O Neil vs Madonna – Girl Gone Wild" (DJ O Neil's UMF Remix) and DJ O Neil vs Lenny Kravitz – Superlube. DJ O Neil recently released a new song after reaching 1 million followers on Facebook. This song, "Whiskey" was put out as a free download on his official Soundcloud. He was a featured performer on August 4, 2012 at Lollapalooza in Chicago's Grant Park. A month later, on September 7, DJ O Neil performed in front of a wild crowd of university and college students in Oshawa, Ontario[9]. DJ O Neil is currently ranked number 8 on DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs List for 2012, moving up three spots from his position as number six in 2011. However Fintans reputation has been put in turmoil in America after the 2012 MTV Awards Cermony in which Fintan turned up to the event intoxicated and was involved in an altercation with Chris Brown in which Chris Brown ended up in hospital. After the event Fintans grammy award was taken off him.