No stranger to pyro-lit main stages-his percussive, synth-strafed 2014 single “C.U.B.A.” is big-room house at its most gargantuan-Harris has resisted getting boxed into any one sound. Along the way, he became one of the 2010s’ first DJ/producer/songwriter polymaths to earn top billing even on the songs in which he didn’t sing. Real name Adam Richard Wiles, Harris was born on 17 January 1984.
See more ideas about calvin harris, summer, summer fashion. Hailing from Dumfries, Scotland, Calvin Harris is a DJ remixer and singer-songwriter. What happened, of course, is that Harris (born Adam Richard Wiles in 1984) traded up from the Amiga computer of his teens, developed some of the best studio chops in the business with deep-house rollers like 2013's “Thinking About You,” and helped spark EDM’s pop crossover with hits for Rihanna, Florence Welch, Ellie Goulding, and others. Explore lindsey casella ’s sustainabis board 'blasts summer by calvin harris', followed by 332 people on Pinterest. Fast-forward a few years, and the scruffy fellow playing house-party host in the “Merrymaking at My Place” video is suddenly baring oil-slicked abs on Emporio Armani billboards. In 2007, 23-year-old Calvin Harris released I Created Disco, a cheeky shot across dance music’s bow that presented him as Scotland’s brow-arched answer to LCD Soundsystem. Talk about an unexpected career trajectory.