Garmiani
| Garmiani | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Jiar Garmiani |
| Born | 16 May 1983 |
| Origin | , Sweden |
| Genres | EDM |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Labels | Dim Mak Records |
| Associated acts | Steve Aoki, Salvatore Ganacci |
| Website | http://www.garmiani.com |
Jiar Garmiani (born 16 May 1983), commonly known by his stage name Garmiani, is a Swedish electronic dance music producer and DJ.
Garmiani is of Kurdish descent and moved to Sweden at the age of 6 as a result of the Iran-Iraq war. Having a musician father and being obsessed with music from a very young age, he owned his first instrument at the age of 6. At the age of 12, he saved his allowance for 6 months and bought his first DJ mixer. At the age of 13 he started rapping. He studied music in high school and later graduated from the Audio Engineering program at SAE institute. He has mentioned 2Pac, Dr. Dre, The Prodigy and Armand Van Helden as early musical influencers.
After rapping and producing underground HipHop between 2001-2007, he moved on to producing a hybrid of Hiphop/Dancehall/Electro under the alias Al Azif between 2007-2011. The Al Azif remix of Crossfire’s ”Lady” gained a #1 spot on the Swedish radio station The Voice’s top chart in 2008. In 2009, a Spanish version of the same remix stayed #1 on the Billboard single chart in Chile for 8 weeks, keeping Black Eyed Peas ”I Gotta Feeling" and Lady Gaga’s ”Bad Romance” off the top position. in 2011 he released the last Al Azif single ”Sick In Head” on Sony Music Entertainment Sweden. After that, he retired the Al Azif project.
In 2012 he started his new dance music project, this time using his last name Garmiani as his stage name. His first collaboration ”The City Is Mine” with childhood friend Salvatore Ganacci was released on Tiesto-founded Magik Muzik. The vocals on ”The City Is Mine” were performed by Garmiani himself. He signed to Steve Aoki's Dim Mak Records in 2013 and released ”Rumble EP”. The title track ”Rumble” gained a top 10 position on the Beatport electronica chart and was featured in the video game ”Need for Speed Rivals". The 2014 follow-up single ”Nomad” was the first Garmiani single to reach 1 million streams on Spotify. The track was used in a video clip with a dancing baby that went viral on Vine, Instagram and Facebook.
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