Trendsetter is excited to be working with Steve Aoki again on his highly anticipated music video for “Azukita” featuring Daddy Yankee, Elvis Crespo, and Play-N-Skillz.
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World-renowned DJ and producer Steve Aoki joined forces with international Latin superstar Daddy Yankee, Grammy award-winning singer Elvis Crespo, and Grammy-nominated producers Play-N-Skill for Aoki’s first Latin track, “Azurita” accompanied by a dance-inspired music video. Premiering exclusively on Univision Network’s highest-rated news magazine show, Primer Impacto the video directed by Tyler Dunning Evans and produced by Matt Pfeffer, features Steve Aoki and Daddy Yankee battle each other in an “Azukita” video game using virtual reality goggles. The two build their own teams that compete with each other through dance battles and those with the best moves advance. This creative makes for a high energy visual matching the upbeat vibe of the song and with an effortless fusion of EDM and Latin music. The video also features a performance by dancer and choreographer Brian Esperon along with others at SKIP Entertainment located on Guam, who are well-known for their viral dance videos on Youtube.
The song has inspired a global viral movement that heavily infiltrated the Zumba community, where Aoki resonates and influenced other esteemed choreographers, dancers, models and notables to join. Just last year Aoki struck up a partnership with STRONG by Zumba, a high-intensity interval training workout that’s designed with music as your motivator. He created a track specific to the workout made to match every single movement of the routine and instead of focusing on the cardio challenge ahead of you, the music-fitness combo is supposed to help get you to that last rep or set. This once again proving his innate ability to create a uniting universal message through music, no matter the genre.
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Steve Aoki is a 2x Grammy-nominated international producer/DJ, electronic dance music entrepreneur, and founder of the trendsetting record label, events/lifestyle company and apparel line Dim Mak. Since launching in 1996, Dim Mak Records has become a launch pad for seminal acts such as The Chainsmokers, Bloc Party, The Bloody Beetroots and The Gossip through deftly marketed single and full-length releases and now has well over 900.Known for collaborations ranging from Snoop Dogg to Linkin Park to JJ Abrams to Migos and Louis Tomlinson (One Direction), AOKI’s debut artist album was nominated for the Best Electronic/Dance album Grammy while his follow-ups NEON FUTURE I & II featured his Gold-certified single “Delirious (Boneless)” with Kid Ink. Most recently “Just Hold On” with One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson became a global smash after the pair debuted the song with a performance on X Factor. The song debuted at #1 in 43 countries and has since achieved Gold or Platinum status in 18 countries. Releasing his latest album Kolony on July 21 (via Dim Mak Records / Ultra Records) debuting at #1 on the Electronic Album charts, Kolony marks Aoki’s first full turn into rap music, which he describes as “bridging the gap” between genres and is stacked with hard-hitting rhymes from some of the most prominent lyricists today, including Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Yachty, Migos, 2 Chainz, Gucci Mane, ILOVEMAKONNEN, T Pain, and more.
Daddy Yankee remains one of the most recognized and influential names in urban music and Latin dance. He was named one of the most influential Hispanics in the world by both CNN and Time Magazine. He has sold over 17 million albums and over 60 million fans combined on his social networks. Daddy Yankee is considered the King of Reggaeton and continues to reign with the recent global success of Despacito, which was named the most streamed song and the most watched video of all time. He was also named Billboard Magazine’s Top Latin Artist of 2017.
From the humble beginnings of two turntables in a small apartment in Irving, Texas, Play-N-Skillz is an American Hip-Hop, Pop, Electronic Dance Music format record production/songwriting/perform
Grammy Award-winning recording artist, Elvis Crespo is a legend in Latin music. With his mastery of the Dominican Republic’s merengue tradition, New York-born and Puerto Rican-raised vocalist Elvis Crespo wasted no time in reaching the apex of contemporary Latin music. Crespo has accumulated over 26 #1’s on the Billboard charts and his award-winning song “Suavemente” has transcended time AND space–it was used on the space shuttle Discovery mission to the International Space Station.The merengue legend is no stranger to dance music, the 2016 hit song “Bailar” by Deorro and Elvis Crespo still remains a global phenomenon, earning the pair a Latin Billboard award in 2017.