Dj bl3nd who is the girl

While it may be surprising for some, little more than a mask — or some sort of larger-than-life gimmick — is enough to garner EDM hysteria these days; add to that this guy's hyperactive use of Serato Scratch Live and his wild, pseudo-punk attitude and it starts to make a little more sense. After starting out with a bonkers video of himself jumping around and mixing in his bedroom, has seen him embark on his first-ever international tour, thereby explaining the reason for his significant rise up the poll since last year.

Coming a long way from lo-fi webcam streams, he's unwilling to turn his back on the online channel now with over a million subscribers , that sent his career viral, now splicing his mixes with big budget sequences of him skateboarding in Cali and spraying Champagne over goth girls in bikinis.

Despite his name, he's not a character who blends in. Read more. Shape Copy Created with Sketch. And then there are the eye-popping social media figures that reportedly had the management teams of BL3ND and fellow pin-up Diplo brawling at a recent conference when the latter accused the former of cyber manipulation.

Though you may not have heard of him, this new Stateside sensation has over million YouTube views, 3 million Facebook fans and 20 million music downloads, all without having played outside America.

Intimidating stuff — but we called him anyway. And suddenly, the illusion was gone. Speaking softly down the phone, BL3ND won't reveal his real name, age or where he's originally from around 21 and Mexico judging by his voice but admits to being in the studio in his current home town of Los Angeles. So why the secrecy, why create this character?

We're one family. Perhaps what he really means is that around , narked off at not getting anywhere despite handing out plenty of demos, he filmed himself playing at home, going mental in a mask. Five months after posting the clip it had racked up a million hits. Like every video since, including the music videos he's branched out into, it then went fully viral, reaching the homes of millions of bored youths or as BL3ND puts it "people who like to rage and party hard, even babies and really young kids" across the world.