I would like to be a versatile music producer: DJ Aaron Amir

Bengaluru-based DJ Aaron Aamir talks about the art of mastering mashups

His ‘Stay x Ranjha’ mashup may have garnered over 2.3 million views online, but there was a time when Bengaluru-based DJ Aaron Aamir never dreamed he would come so far.

“I hail from an ordinary middle class family and both my parents work hard. There was no way I could tell them I wanted to pursue music as a career, even though I knew that was what I wanted to do from the time I was 17,” says Aamir.

“I was studying at Dayanand Sagar University and I saved up my B.Tech scholarship fund to enrol for lessons in music production at Livewires in Koramangala. The scholarship covered only a portion of my fees, but the team at Livewires liked my work even though it was not crafted too well. I could rap, compose music and write lyrics and they offered to tutor me.”