1. Porter Weston Robinson was born on July 15,1992 and is an American DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
47 Facts About Porter Robinson
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Porter Robinson signed to Skrillex's record label OWSLA at the age of 18 and released the extended play Spitfire in 2011.
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Porter Robinson appeared on Billboard 21 Under 21 list in 2012.
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Porter Robinson won the 2015 MTVU Artist of the Year and made DJ Mags Top 100 DJs list for seven consecutive years.
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Porter Robinson began producing music under the alias Virtual Self in 2017, releasing a self-titled EP the same year.
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Porter Robinson was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he resides.
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Porter Robinson is the second of four boys in his family.
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Porter Robinson was accepted into the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where both of his parents are alumni, but did not attend himself due to his newly launched music career.
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Entirely self-taught, Porter Robinson began producing at the age of 12.
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Porter Robinson then began producing music that he called "complextro", adding classically inspired melodies and complicated fills to his music.
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Eighteen at the time, Porter Robinson started achieving international notice, catching the eye of dubstep producer Skrillex.
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Porter Robinson released the single, "Language", on April 10,2012, through Big Beat Records in North America, and Ministry of Sound everywhere else.
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The song was relatively different in its production than the "complextro" sound that Porter Robinson had become known for, favoring a more melodic sound and a dream-like piano lead.
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Porter Robinson co-wrote Zedd's US top 10 hit "Clarity", as well as singing backing vocals.
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The track was originally going to be released as a collaboration between the two artists called "Poseidon" alongside a joint tour, but Porter Robinson backed down and withdrew his name because he did not want to release a pop single while he was "trying to do something that wasn't shooting for the radio" with his debut album.
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Porter Robinson collaborated with multiple vocalists and musical groups including Urban Cone, Lemaitre, Breanne Duren, and Amy Millan.
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Porter Robinson made his official vocal debut on the single "Sad Machine".
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Porter Robinson then embarked on the Worlds Live tour, a new live show that involved him singing, playing synthesizers, and triggering samples, supported by artists Giraffage and Lemaitre.
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On January 31,2016, Porter Robinson announced on his Twitter account that he was producing new material after being "stuck" for a year and a half.
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On October 25,2017, Porter Robinson released a new single titled "Eon Break" under the alias Virtual Self, announced via his Twitter page.
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Porter Robinson's follow up single was released on November 8,2017, which is titled "Ghost Voices".
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Porter Robinson celebrated the accomplishment by playing three Virtual Self sets in Los Angeles before the awards ceremony.
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Porter Robinson held a debut live performance on December 8,2017, in Brooklyn, New York City.
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Porter Robinson released "Angel Voices" on July 20,2018, a happy-hardcore infused remix of "Ghost Voices".
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On March 4,2019, Porter Robinson announced Multiverse Music Festival, a one-day festival in Oakland, California, featuring a self-curated lineup and co-presented by Goldenvoice, slated for June 15 in Middle Harbor Shoreline Park.
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On March 10,2020, Porter Robinson released the second single on his album, titled "Something Comforting".
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On May 9,2020, Porter Robinson teamed up with the Recording Academy, and donated $115,000 to MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund using money raised by his online Secret Sky Music Festival.
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On July 14,2020, one day before his twenty-eighth birthday, Porter Robinson announced that Nurture was on hold, but the album's rollout would resume the following day.
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On December 18,2020, Porter Robinson announced that Nurture was fully completed, and that the album would release in "a few months".
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That day, Porter Robinson announced that Nurture would be released on April 23,2021.
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On February 26,2021, Porter Robinson announced on his Twitter that the fifth single for the 14-song album, "Musician", would be released on March 3.
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On May 10,2021, Porter Robinson announced the tour for the Nurture live show, supporting Nurture.
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Porter Robinson continued to be active after the release of Nurture.
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Porter Robinson's songs "Look at the Sky" and "Something Comforting" were added to the arcade game Dance Dance Revolution A3 as playable songs on November 4,2022, marking his debut in the Dance Dance Revolution series, which Porter Robinson has cited as a major influence in his career.
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On March 7,2023, Porter Robinson released a Vocaloid 6 voicebank named Po-uta which imitates his pitched-up vocals from Nurture.
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On February 29,2024, Porter Robinson released a video teaser for a new project, where a fictional video essayist from 2028 details how Porter Robinson would go on to delete his entire discography from the internet and then disappear on March 1,2024.
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On June 5,2024, Porter Robinson released the third single of the album, "Russian Roulette".
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Porter Robinson sees the song as a path to addressing the ideas of "oblivion, of career suicide, of disappearing", and finding a balance with his obligations.
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On February 13,2025, Porter Robinson appeared on triple J's Like a Version segment, where Porter Robinson with his live band performed "Cheerleader" and a cover of Fontaines DC's "Favourite".
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Porter Robinson is a major fan of anime and Japanese culture, and incorporates these elements into his music.
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Porter Robinson has stated that he originally attempted to emulate the music that he heard in Japanese games, which stemmed to producing, and then to performing as a DJ.
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Porter Robinson did not release or produce any new music in 2015 due to his depression, which he later reflected on in his second studio-album, Nurture.
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Porter Robinson explained that the lyrics in Nurture were about his struggle to create and be proud of the music he was writing, due to having depression.
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Porter Robinson has been a regular visitor of the Akihabara nightclub Mogra when in Tokyo, which has specialized in featuring anime and video game music.
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Porter Robinson has been in a relationship with Rika Mikuriya since 2017.
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Porter Robinson has stated that he is close friends with fellow DJs and record producers Madeon and Dillon Francis.
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Porter Robinson has Sprengel's deformity and has stated that it has led to him having poor posture.