Sasha (DJ)
Alexander Paul Coe, known as Sasha, is a Welsh DJ and record producer. He is best known for his live events and electronic music as a solo artist. Sasha has remixed tracks for artists such as D-Ream, Madonna, Moby, The Chemical Brothers and Hot Chip.
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Alexander Paul Coe, known as Sasha, is a Welsh DJ and record producer. He is best known for his live events and electronic music as a solo artist, as well as his collaborations with British DJ John Digweed. Sasha has remixed tracks for artists such as D-Ream, Madonna, Moby, The Chemical Brothers and Hot Chip. His use of live audio engineering equipment helped popularise technological innovations among DJs who formerly relied on records and turntables. Sasha was voted as World No.1 DJ in 2000 in a poll conducted by DJ Magazine. His first single, under the name Exikse, peaked on the UK Singles Chart at #57. Sasha is a four-time International Dance Music Awards winner, four- time DJ Awards winner and Grammy Award nominee. He has also produced three albums of original works: The Qat Collection in 1994, Airdrawndagger in 2002, and Scene Delete in 2016. Sasha began his career playing acid house music in the late 1980s. He partnered with JohnDigweed in 1993, touring internationally and producing a series of mix albums. Sasha released his first single in 1998, under his own name, with producer Tom Frederikse on Union City Recordings. In 2007, he formed a record label with Renaissance Records called emFire, which is the exclusive outlet for his new music. He was born in Bangor, Wales, on 4 September 1969. Sasha passed the entrance exam for Hatfield College at age 17, but did not like Epsom and left before completing his A-Level examinations.
Sasha’s stepmother forced him to take piano lessons which, although he disliked them at the time, he ultimately found to be beneficial to his music career. His early musical taste was primarily Top 40 pop music like The The and The Police. After achieving success as a producer and DJ, Sasha worked with younger DJs and producers such as BT and James Zabiela. Sasha left his position at Shelley’s Laserdrome in Stoke-on-Trent for several years because of increasing gang violence. He accepted, instead, a spot in the DJ rotation at a Renaissance club, a Venue 44 in Mansfield, England, in 1993. Later in 1993 he began collaborating with Danny Campbell for Pete Tong’s FFR, collaborating with Pete Tong Tong’s Tong FR, and produced the single ‘Together’ Sasha began a successful career as a DJ and producer in London and Australia. He currently lives in London with his wife and two children. Sasha currently lives with his family in south Wales and has a daughter and a son in the United States. He also has a son and a daughter in New York City, New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Los Angeles. He lives in a houseboat with his girlfriend and two dogs in the San Francisco Bay area of California. Sasha and his wife have three children, a son, a daughter, a stepson and a stepdaughter.
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