Steve Hiroyuki Aoki is an American electro house musician, producer and founder of Dim Mak Records.
Born in California, Aoki has graduated on Women's Studies and Sociology.
Around his 20's, in 1996, Steve Aoki built his record label - Dim Mak (which is a martial arts technique), named after his childhood hero Bruce Lee.
The label released artists like MSTRKRFT, The Bloody Beetroots and Klaxons.
He released his debut mix album in January 2008, Pillowface and His Airplane Chronicles. A few days ago, he released his first studio album Wonderland working in collaboration with artists like Laidback Luke, Kid Cudi and LMFAO.
He has remixed several artists and bands like Lenny Kravitz, Snoop Dogg, Bloc Party and Kid Cudi.
Heartbreak is a collaboration between Steve Aoki and CSS's singer Lovefoxxx. The song appears on Aoki's album Wonderland.
"In the corner of my eye
See you looking fine and dandy
I know you playing it cool
You can see i'm not a fool or maybe"
[Don't Forget to check our social networks: Twitter and Facebook.]
Cansei De Ser Sexy are a Brazilian rock band, created in 2003 and is composed nowadays by Lovefoxxx, Luiza Sá, Ana Rezende and Carolina Parra.
Thanks to their international success and recognition they are usually called CSS, probably for the difficulty of pronunciation of the band's name for non-Portuguese speakers.
Cansei De Ser Sexy literally means "I'm tired of being sexy" and the band revealed they took the name after a Beyoncé's quote where she allegedly declared she was "tired of being sexy".
CSS are known for songs like Alala, Off The Hook or Music Is My Hot Hot Sex.
The band initiated their recognition, firstly through the internet helping them to achieve some fame before signing with any label.
Releasing two independent EPs - Em Rotterdam Já É Uma Febre in 2004 and A Onda Mortal/Uma Tarde com PJ in January 2005 and three albums - Cansei De Ser Sexy (2005) [this one was released as an International version in 2006], Donkey (2008) and La Liberación (2011).
The band caught the international attention when their song Music Is My Hot Hot Sex appeared on a Apple Inc. commercial for iPod. Due to that exposure, the song achieve #63 on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest single in the US by a Brazilian band.
Their songs also appear on video games like FIFA 08, 09 and 12, Forza Motorsport 2 and Midnight Club: Los Angeles.
According to an interview for Folha de São Paulo, Adriano Cintra said that the band's third band "is not a themed album. It has influences from clubs, reggae and punk."Ana Rezende also added that "we sometimes do a reggae that nobody thinks it's actually reggae. But in our head is very reggae."
Hits Me Like a Rock is the first single taken from La Liberación, in August 15 2011. Lovefoxxx revealed, on a press conference, the song "It's about the power of music to date our lives. You know when you listen to a song over and over again over a certain period of time and later, for a while, you simply forget that song ever existed... But then when 'shuffle' choose to use it's power and bring back that song to you, you listen to it again and everything you've felt hits you ever so strong and the music becomes physical."
"Take me on your motorcycle
Run with you through the hills
We don't care for what's wrong and what's not
I like to be with you without a feel of what's real"
In November 11, 2011 Adriano Cintra left the band and declared he didn't authorized any member of the band to use his songs. He revealed he left the band due to attitude problems from the other members, claiming that fame got to their heads.
