The Industry Has Changed-The Passion Hasn't When I started producing music in the mid-'90s, everything was different. There was no streaming, no social media, no algorithms deciding what people should hear. Music spread through vinyl, CDs, radio shows, record stores, and DJs who genuinely believed in the records they played. Today, the industry moves at an incredible pace. New tracks are released every day, attention spans are shorter, and artists are often expected to crea

From Silence to Sound After the tour ends and the noise fades, I return to the studio. Live shows are not just performance—they’re research. I watch which tracks open up the dancefloor, which ones make people stop and listen, which moments generate a collective gasp. Then I bring that into the studio.

I was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1971, and music has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. At the age of five, I picked up the drums, and a little later I began exploring piano. By the time I was thirteen, I was already playing in a rock band with musicians much older than me. Those years gave me my first real taste of performing and connecting through sound. In the early ’90s, I moved to Miami. That city became my playground and my foundation—I started DJing a