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Leo Lewis: A Biography

“You arrive in a certain stage when you want to make people dance and have a good time. I like to surprise people by providing something unique and different.”

How early in life did you know what you were destined to do? Not many people can say they began their career when they were still in high school, and even fewer people have enough drive to make the hobby they are passionate about into the career they love. But this is certainly the case with DJ and music producer Leo Lewis, who has known he wanted to create music since he was a child. He began mixing music at the age of 13, and he’s been doing it ever since.

Leo says his first inspiration to begin mixing music was in 2000. “I was listening to a lot of trance music,” he says. My tastes were always very eclectic. I really liked electronic music, but I was always open to listening to rock, pop, hip hop & R ’n’ B music.”

A year later, he began mixing his own music, and that eclectic taste certainly paid off for Leo as a DJ. When he first started, he didn’t have his own style yet, so he experimented by mixing a little bit of everything. When others were mixing only certain kinds of music together, Leo was already experimenting with new mixes not many other people had thought of yet. “My influences come from all over the world,” Leo says. “I am really looking into what can make people dance.” Leo was living in California when he first began mixing, and he moved to France in 2002 to continue his work as a DJ. When he first got to France, he began working in smaller nightclubs, perfecting his craft and catching the eyes of plenty of fans.

From California to Paris

Leo is truly a global personality. Born in Casablanca, he grew up in California, and then moved to France. He blends all of these different influences into his music, which makes him unique. By 2007, Leo moved to Paris, and that’s when he got a lot of opportunities to work in larger clubs. A year later he started producing his own music. During his time in Paris, he also began to develop his technical skills and musical touch and got to meet some very well-known people in the music industry, including some of the top 100 DJs in the world.

Leo has spent his entire life looking for the next challenge, and he wasn’t happy with just the basics of being a DJ and mixing music. “When you arrive at a certain point, you are fed up,” Leo says. “You know how to mix two tracks quick and fast, and that’s it, and you get bored after mixing just two tracks. You get to know the technique of mixing music, and you go out of this comfort zone, and that’s what pushes you to produce music.”

The Future for Leo Lewis

Leo says, “When you mix music, you analyze human behavior and put people in a higher state of energy. You can’t club unhappy. You need to be at a higher state of energy so you can put other people into a higher state of energy.”

As Leo Lewis strives to bring people together in dance and fun, he’s sharing his music with the world by creating a community on his website. People in his online community can come together and experience music the way it was meant to be experienced. Leo says that music is changing fast, especially because it is all about influences. “The main idea is to entertain people and to host events that can be broadcasted over different platforms, especially on radio. I think we learn every day. The music industry is shifting right now, and it’s important to understand this shift.”

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