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