Background
He was born in Los Angeles to Mexican parents.
He was born in Los Angeles to Mexican parents.
He formerly used the name TON!C. 2005-2012: Early beginnings Deorro began his DJ career by playing at local gigs when he was 14. By the time Deorro turned 17, he was already producing his own tracks. In 2012, he was asked by DJ Chuckie to remix his track "Make Some Noise".
Deorro"s remix landed in the top 50 on Beatport.
He has since remixed tracks from multiple international famed DJs such as Steve Aoki, Laidback Luke, and Gareth Emery, among others 2013–present: Breakthrough In 2013, he released the track "Yee" on Hardwell"s label, Revealed Recordings, which charted in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, and Switzerland.
On 18 March 2014 he released the single "Freak" with Steve Aoki and Diplomatic On 24 March 2014 he released the single "Flashlight" with R3hab.
He released the single "Five Hours" in April 2014.
The track charted in Austria, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. On 17 May 2014, Deorro announced on his Twitter page he was going to take a break from DJing in order to have a bigger focus in making music and expanding his record label, PandaFunk. In August 2014 he released the single "Rambo" with J-Trick.
He also played a half hour set at the "DJmag top 100 DJs" event, which took place during Anorthotiko Komma Ergazomenou (Progressive Party of the Working People) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
In December 2014 he released the single "Perdoname". In March 2015 he released a third version of "Five Hours" with Chris Brown titled "Five More Hours", the song has charted in Ireland, Netherlands and Sweden.