Steve Angello

Long before garnering GRAMMY® Award nominations, performing to millions of fans on multiple continents, crashing charts worldwide, and tallying streams in the billions, artist, DJ, producer, and Swedish House Ma fi a Co-Founder Steve Angello realized his purpose as a kid in Sweden. With bulky headphones on, he sat in front of his record player and spun classics by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Stevie Wonder, and Michael Jackson for hours on end, ultimately deciding, “I want to become a DJ.” “I knew what I wanted to do at ten-years-old,” he smiles. “I would save up all of my money from taking out the trash and doing chores to go to the record store and buy secondhand Zeppelin and Bob Marley albums—and anything Quincy Jones produced. I even bought a lot of albums based on the artwork, because it wasn’t like you could