Birth Name
Sajeeb Saha
Nickname
Jai Wolf
Age
23
Place of Birth
Bangladesh
Well Known For
Remixing Skrillex’s track ‘Ease My Mind’ and then having said remix played by Skrillex during his Glastonbury set
Favorite Things
Hoodies
List of Facts
1. Jai currently has over 10,000 followers on Twitter.
2. From August 2015, Jai will begin his ‘Indian Summer’ American tour, which is scheduled to include 10 different cities.
3. In August 2015, Jai Walk announced an Australian tour, scheduled for October 2015.
4. Jai’s debut original track, ‘Indian Summer’ became the third most viral track on Spotify in the US and the sixth globally.
5. In July, Rolling Stone Magazine wrote an article about Jai Wolf. You can check it out at http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/10-new-artists-you-need-to-know-july-2015-20150713/jai-wolf-20150710
6. Debut track ‘Indian Summer’ went straight into the itunes Electronica Top 20 on its release.
7. Skrillex played Jai’s remix of his track, ‘Ease My Mind’ at Glastonbury 2014, netting him a great deal of new fans.
8. Jai adopted his stage name to make a break from his past musical ventures, which were more dubstep based.
9. Jai was born in Bangladesh and raised in New York City.
10. Jai reports that as a child, he really enjoyed ‘video game soundtracks’ and this led to an interest in electronica, but that it wasn’t until 2008 and Kanye West’s 808s and Heartbreak that he started to make his own music.
Tour dates 2015
Saturday, June 13 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo
Saturday, June 20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Sound Garden Hall (w/ Luminox)
Saturday, July 18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
Saturday, August 1 – Pomona, CA @ HARD Summer
Indian Summer American Tour
August 7 Folsom, San Francisco, CA
August 9 Palm Springs, CA
August 13 Salt Lake City, UT
September 3 Edmonton, AB
September 6 Washington D.C.
For full list of dates see
https://www.facebook.com/JaiWolfMusic
Additional Statistics and Summary
Jai Wolf is a 23 year old NYC based producer, who shot to fame in 2014 after harnessing the power of social media. He tweeted his bootleg version of Skrillex’s ‘Ease My Mind’ to great acclaim, and eventually Skrillex released the remix of his song on his label, after famously playing the remix during his set at Glastonbury. Since his breakthrough, Jai has played at the Coachella festival, racked up an amazing seven #1 tracks on Hype Machine and millions of plays on Soundcloud. In June 2015, Jai streamed his debut track, ‘Indian Summer’, on ODESZA’s Foreign Family Collective, who had met Jai when he remixed one of their tracks, ‘Say My Name.’ Within three weeks of its release, ‘Indian Summer’ had garnered over a million views and made its way into the itunes Electronica Top 20. He launched an American tour of ten dates in August 2015, and is scheduled to tour Australia in October 2015. In July 2015, Rolling Stone Magazine named him ‘a new artist you need to know.’
Sources
Jai Wolf Interview
Facebook
https://twitter.com/jaiwolfx
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/10-new-artists-you-need-to-know-july-2015-20150713/jai-wolf-20150710