1. Chilly Gonzales is known for his rap albums, his collaborations with singer and musician Feist and rapper Drake, his albums of classical piano compositions, and for his collaborations with electronic musicians Daft Punk and Boys Noize, the latter of whom he produces under the moniker Octave Minds.
Chilly Gonzales has written several newspaper and magazine opinion pieces in The Guardian, Vice, Billboard, and others.
Chilly Gonzales is the younger brother of film composer Christophe Beck.
Chilly Gonzales began teaching himself piano at age three, when his older brother Christophe began taking lessons.
Chilly Gonzales was classically trained as a pianist at McGill University, where he began both his composing career, co-authoring several musicals with his brother, and his performing career, as a jazz pianist.
Chilly Gonzales declared himself "The President of the Berlin Underground" and adopted the stage name Chilly Gonzales in 1999.
Chilly Gonzales performed regularly at nightclubs and on the summer pop festival circuit.
In 2004, Chilly Gonzales released an album of instrumental material, Solo Piano.
Chilly Gonzales followed it up nine years later with Solo Piano II, long-listed for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize.
Chilly Gonzales returned as a contributor on Feist's 2007 album, The Reminder, which was nominated for four Grammy Awards and won five Juno Awards.
Apart from his solo career, Chilly Gonzales is a member of the Berlin-based hip-hop band Puppetmastaz.
Chilly Gonzales played keyboards in the song "Give Life Back to Music" and piano on "Within" from Daft Punk's fourth studio album, Random Access Memories, which won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
Chilly Gonzales collaborated with Jhene Aiko on the track "From Time" from Drake's third album Nothing Was the Same.
In 2016, Chilly Gonzales hosted Music's Cool, a two-hour radio show on the Apple Music radio station Beats 1.
In early 2008, Chilly Gonzales signed with Mercury Records, and on 7 April Soft Power was released.
In 2014, Chilly Gonzales won an Album of the Year Grammy Award for his work on Daft Punk's Random Access Memories.
Chilly Gonzales played over 300 songs during the course of the record attempt.
On 17 March 2017, Chilly Gonzales released Room 29, in collaboration with Jarvis Cocker.
The workshop included coaching sessions hosted by Chilly Gonzales, followed by masterclasses from Chilly Gonzales' friends and collaborators including Peaches, Socalled, Fred Wesley and Jarvis Cocker.
In 2020, Chilly Gonzales published a book called Enya: A Treatise on Unguilty Pleasures.
Chilly Gonzales discussed his childhood appreciation for Enya in a metaphorical context, recognizing the factor of involuntary taste on music choice rather than the factors of outside influences and social judgement.