1. Nicolas Jaar is a Chilean-American composer and musician.
20 Facts About Nicolas Jaar
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Nicolas Jaar has released three albums as one half of his band Darkside and two further albums under the alias Against All Logic.
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Nicolas Jaar scored Jacques Audiard's Dheepan and Pablo Larrain's 2019 film Ema.
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Nicolas Jaar was born in New York to Chilean parents Evelyne Meynard, a dancer, and Alfredo Nicolas Jaar, an artist and architect.
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Nicolas Jaar's mother is ethnically French, while his father has Dutch and Palestinian ancestry; the surname Jaar is reported to originate from the Palestinian city of Bethlehem.
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Nicolas Jaar matriculated at Brown University in 2008; he graduated from Brown in 2012 with a degree in comparative literature.
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In 2007, Nicolas Jaar met Gadi Mizrahi and Zev Eisenberg who ran the legendary "Marcy" parties in Brooklyn, New York.
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Nicolas Jaar spent the next four years in the NY underground dance scene creating rough, hip hop influenced house music, releasing such singles as "Love You Gotta Lose Again" and "Don't Believe the Hype".
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Nicolas Jaar released his debut album, Space Is Only Noise, in January 2011 to critical acclaim and four stars from The Guardian.
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In 2012, Nicolas Jaar debuted a live concept called From Scratch, where, in front of a live audience, he sampled records he had bought that day.
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Nicolas Jaar has performed From Scratch in Boulder, Colorado, and Montreal, Quebec.
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On May 18,2012, Nicolas Jaar made his BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix debut, which was voted Radio 1's Essential Mix Of The Year of 2012.
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In February 2015, Nicolas Jaar released an ambient and noise record entitled Pomegranates, which was described as sounding "like broken Middle Eastern instruments half-playing a modal melody amid bursts of hiss".
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Later that year, Nicolas Jaar scored the soundtrack to Dheepan, a thriller by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard about a family of Sri Lankan refugees living in the suburbs of Paris.
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The album, released with little warning and no direct references to Nicolas Jaar's name, received critical acclaim upon its release, including a score of 8.8 and "Best New Music" designation from Pitchfork.
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Nicolas Jaar co-produced most of FKA Twigs's second studio album, Magdalene, released in October 2019.
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In 2019, Nicolas Jaar created the soundtrack to the Chilean film Ema.
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In November 2023, Nicolas Jaar signed an open letter calling for a ceasefire and an end to Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
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In July 2024, Nicolas Jaar was one of the performers for the Artists for Aid Benefit Concert in London which raised funds for the Gaza Strip and Sudan.
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Nicolas Jaar officially released Piedras 1 and Piedras 2 on October 25,2024.