DJ Smash (Russian musician)

DJ Smash
Birth name	Andrey Leonidovich Shirman
Born	May 23, 1982 (1982-05-23) (age 29) Perm, Russia
Origin	Perm
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Gala Records
Website	djsmash.ru

Andrey Leonidovich Shirman (Russian: Андрей Леонидович Ширман; born 23 May 1982), better known by his stage name DJ Smash, is a Russian DJ who writes electronic music.

Biography

Shirman started his career at the age of 14 when he graduated from musical school while taking computer lessons. After a year, he released his debut album and released his second album two years later in 1999.^[1]

In 2005, Shirman took the name DJ Smash and started working as a resident DJ in the "Zima Project" club in Irkutsk. Later, he became a resident DJ in the following Moscow clubs: "Лето", "Осень", "First", "Дяgilev" and "Movida" in London.

He gained great popularity with the release of single Moscow Never Sleeps in 2007, which got into the rotation of Russia's largest radio station Europa Plus and music channels - Muz-TV and MTV. In 2008, a new version of the hit was recorded in collaboration with Timati. The song was performed on the Muz-TV Awards, together with 30 Seconds To Mars, Morandi, Jennifer Lopez and stars of the Russian pop scene.

In 2008, the most widely known single Волна (Volna, Wave) was released following a music video of a remixed version by DJ Antoine & Yoko.

DJ Smash's first music video in 2009, Лучшие песни (Luchshye pesni, Best songs) was from the album IDDQD. It is noteworthy that in this composition, vocals of DJ Smash were used. Rapper Сява also took part in the video. As before, the director of video was Pavel Khudyakov.

In June 2009 DJ Smash together with Alex Gaudino and Dhany recorded a new version of Moscow Never Sleeps with Alex Gaudino and Dhany.

Many of DJ Smash's tracks feature his project, Fast Food.

Discography

Studio albums

• IDDQD (2008)
• In Da Mix (2009)

Singles

• Moscow Never Sleeps (2007)
• Moscow Never Sleeps vinyl record (2008)

Videos

• Moscow Never Sleeps
• Волна (Volna, Wave)
• Лучшие песни (Luchshye pesni, Best songs)
• Между небом и землёй (Mezhdu nebom i zemloj, Between Heaven and Earth) (featuring Shakhzoda)
• Москва ждёт Февраль (Moskva zhdot Fevral, Moscow waits for February)

Awards

• Night Life Awards 2006
• MTV Award
  • Best Song
  • best duo

References

1. ^ "DJ Smash — biography". http://djsmash.ru/about/. Retrieved 17 September 2009. 

External links

• Official site
• Official Blog
• Official T-shirt collection from DJ SMASH

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