Bio:
As a prominent figure in music, Dani Deahl has been at the forefront of artist discovery and meaningful industry change for over a decade. She currently is a DJ, producer, and public speaker. She also covers the intersection of music and technology for The Verge, helms YouTube series The Future of Music, and is Vice President for the Recording Academy Chicago chapter. When performing, she blends trap and house to create bass-forward sets that are technically savvy and high energy.
As an artist herself, Dani has released trap, twerk, and hard-hitting house with labels like Dim Mak, Monstercat, Flamingo, Cr2, and Armada. She has also been the subject of two documentaries, toured extensively across the globe, played festivals like Spring Awakening, Lollapalooza (three times), and EDC, venues like Wrigley Field (with Fall Out Boy), hosted her own terrestrial radio show in Spain and the Canary Islands, and has been an official Red Bull DJ. She has headlined with or been direct support for artists like Alison Wonderland, Valentino Khan, Krewella, Diplo, Steve Aoki, Pegboard Nerds, Baauer, and countless others. As Diplo himself says: "She's awesome." Dani previously held editorial positions with Nylon Magazine and DJ Mag, and she is the host of newly minted YouTube series, The Future of Music, which features stars like Imogen Heap and Oak Felder, producer for Kehlani and Demi Lovato.
Dani has been heralded for her impact in music by MTV, THUMP, Oxygen, Billboard, Nest HQ, Magnetic, Yahoo, Complex, Chicago Tribune, and many others. She's also a prominent expert on the topics of gender equality in music and marketing for musicians, with engagements at TEDx, Oberlin College, Miami Music Week, Movement festival, Macworld, Camp Spin-Off, Ableton Loop, Red Bull Hack The Hits, an official Twitter Music Q&A, and more. She's not only consulted on creating branding initiatives for labels and artists, but has been instrumental in breaking new artists like Crywolf and Louis the Child. In fact, she has a history of doing so, credited with being the first to tap acts to watch such as The Chainsmokers, The Knocks, Dillon Francis, Louis The Child, and Flosstradamus. As of 2018, Dani is also an elected Vice President for the Recording Academy, engaging in outreach and professional development for the dance music community.
Armin Van Buuren - Ping Pong (Dani Deahl Remix) (Armada)
Pegboard Nerds - BADBOI (Dani Deahl Remix) (Monstercat)
Dani Deahl + Gazzo feat. Crywolf - Control Myself (Flamingo)
Lookas - Loko (Dani Deahl Remix - Official)
Dani Deahl x Animale - Thunderbolt (Dim Mak)
Oliver Heldens - Overdrive (Dani Deahl x Jayceeoh Remix)
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg - The Next Episode (Dani Deahl Remix)
Action Jackson feat. Gucci Mane - Kangaroo Money (Dani Deahl Official Remix) (Otodayo)
Dani Deahl ft. Rohan da Great - SMYK (Play Me Records)
RROID DRAZR - Politics As Usual (Dani Deahl remix) (Forthcoming on Otodayo)
Dani Deahl x Hexes - Air It Out (forthcoming)
Dani Deahl x ETC!ETC! feat. Tasha the Amazon - Rebels (forthcoming)
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay. They paid.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).