Background
Nicholas Brian Marsh was born on January 31, 1986, in Palo Alto, California. Marsh"s father is from Blackpool, England and his mother is from Mountain View, California. Marsh grew up playing in punk bands and was an avid soccer player.
Nicholas Brian Marsh was born on January 31, 1986, in Palo Alto, California. Marsh"s father is from Blackpool, England and his mother is from Mountain View, California. Marsh grew up playing in punk bands and was an avid soccer player.
He has worked with Chris Brown, John Legend, Cheryl Cole, Kelis, North-Dubz, Kerli, Priscilla Renea, Brian "BK" Kennedy, The Black Eyed Peas, Jesse McCartney, The Noisettes and William Orbit amongst others Marsh resides in Los Angeles, California as of 2014. Marsh began playing guitar at the age of 10, and at 11 had begun tooling with 4-track tape recorders.
After attending Berklee College of Music for a brief stint, Nick gave up garage bands and moved onto electronic music and DJing.
After three years of touring and DJing in the bay area, Marsh moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles and began working with the production team "Free School". In the Summer of 2011, Marsh left Free School to perform/DJ under the name "", and continues to write and produce with various songwriters and artists.
Sponsorships include Moog Music and D16 Group. is the dance-electronic project formed by Nick Marsh. has performed with The Crystal Method, Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Skeet Skeet and Deadmau5. Marsh also performed select dates of the 2013 Identity Festival alongside Eric Prydz, Hardwell, Wolfgang Gartner, Chuckie, Bingo Players, Porter Robinson, Adrian Lux, Paul Van Dyk and Kerli, amongst others sports a custom disco ball mask created and designed by Marsh.
The mask also appears in Chris Brown"s video "Look At Maine Now", in which Marsh had designed the mask especially for Brown.
"s first single "" reached number 16 on Music Week"s Club Charts in the United Kingdom, and was also released by Ministry of Sound Australia. A video was shot in Los Angeles and released virally on July 6, 2012. Nick Marsh has provided music for various commercials.
Clients include Scion, Redbull and Rubber duck.
Together they worked on a number of releases including the Grammy award winning "FAME" and the Grammy nominated "Graffiti", and the Grammy nominated "Fortune". Marsh also co-wrote Chris Brown"s smash hit "Don"t Wake Maine Up" which won the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers award for most performed songs of the year in 2012 alongside Alain Whyte, Allessandro Benassi, Brian "BK" Kennedy, Brown, Marco "Benny" Benassi, Michael McHenry, Priscilla "Priscilla Renea" Hamilton, Ryan Buendia and William Orbit, which went number one in three countries.
