Chilly Gonzales
Chilly Gonzales was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on March 20th, 1972 and is the Music Producer. At the age of 52, Chilly Gonzales biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Jason Charles Beck, better known as Chilly Gonzales, was born on March 20, 1972, is a Grammy-winning Canadian singer.
He is currently based in Cologne, Germany, and spent many years in Paris.
He is best known for his albums of classical piano compositions with a pop music sensibility, Solo Piano I and Solo Piano II, as well as his MC and electro albums. On Radio 1, Gonzales broadcasts a web series Pop Music Masterclass, the documentary Connections of Music on Arte, and Music's Cool with Chilly Gonzales on Apple Music's Beats1.
In The Guardian, Vice, Billboard, and others, he has published several newspaper and magazine opinion pieces.
He is Christophe Beck's younger brother.
Early life and career
Jason Charles Beck is the son of Ashkenazi Jews who were forced to flee Hungary during World War II. When his younger brother Chris started taking lessons, he began teaching himself piano at age three. Beck graduated from Crescent School in Toronto, Canada. He was classically trained as a pianist at McGill University, where he began his writing career, co-authoring many musicals with his brother, and performing as a jazz pianist.
He began as the frontman of the alternative rock band Son, alongside Dominic Salole and Dave Szigeti in the 1990s. In 1995, a Warner Bros. Records affiliate, Son was signed to a three-album contract with Warner Music Canada. The Prince/Elvis Costello-flavored LP Thriller was moderately popular, spawning one single that attracted a lot of radio airplay ("Pick Up the Phone") and spawning several opening gigs for the Barenaked Ladies. The album's production values were limited; Warner Bros. just announced the band's hastily recorded demo.
Wolfstein, Son's second appearance, was recorded in LA with the help of his brother Christophe. It's a concept album about a man who turns into a wolf after hitting one with his car.
Warner Bros. said the album represented too radical a change in direction, and it was missing singles that were suitable for Canadian pop charts. "Making a Jew Cry," the album's most upbeat song, had the radio-unfriendly name. The band had no advertising funding at the time, and soon after, the band was no longer available.
Gonzales moved to Berlin in 1999, despite knowing no German. In 1999, he declared himself President of the Berlin Underground and adopted the stage name Chilly Gonzales.
Gonzales' musical style was also changed with this change in image. His four albums under the German brand Kitty-yo (1999), The Entertainist (2000), Presidential Suite (2002), and Z (2003) were mainly based on rap, although his keyboardist skills were demonstrated on a number of interspersed musical tracks. Critics and audiences in Europe were more open to Gonzales' output's eclectic and experimental nature. "Let's Groove Again," his first Kitty-yo single, became a dance floor hit on its first attempt in 1999. It was used in a BBC promotional trailer for their latest TV show The Restaurant, which was released in 2007. Gonzales appeared in nightclubs and on the summer pop festival circuit.
Solo Piano, Gonzales' fourth album of instrumental recordings, was released in 2004. It drew comparisons to Erik Satie's work, attracting a new global audience to his work, much like him, praised by public and commentators. Solo Piano is Gonzales' best-selling album to date.
Solo Piano II, he resurrects it nine years later in its nine-year career as the 2013 Polaris Music Prize's longest-listed artist.
He released Chambers, a piano and chamber piece that was recorded with Hamburg's Kaiser Quartett, to generally positive feedback in 2015.
Solo Piano III's three Solo Piano albums were completed with the introduction of Solo Piano III on September 7, 2018.
In the meantime, Gonzales continued to develop as a producer and songwriter for other artists, performing on singles and albums with Peaches, singer Jane Birkin, and indie rocker Leslie Feist. Let It Die, Feist's 2003 album, became a best-selling book in the United States and industry awards. Gonzales appeared on Feist's 2007 album, The Reminder, which was nominated for 4 Grammy Awards and five Juno Awards.
Gonzales, in addition to his solo career, is also a member of the Berlin-based hip-hop band Puppetmastaz.
Gonzales appeared on Daft Punk's fourth studio album, Random Access Memories, which received a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Solo Piano II's studio album, which was longlisted for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize in June 2013.
Gonzales worked with Jhené Aiko on the track "From Time" from Drake's third album Nothing Was the Same. They started reuniting after Gonzales learned that Drake had used the entirety of Gonzales' "The Tourist" as "Outro" on So Far Gone.
On the Apple Music radio station Beats 1, Gonzales hosted Music's Cool, a two-hour radio show on the Apple Music radio station Beats 1. He analyzed the musical theory behind many musicians, including former collaborators, in the show.
Gonzales signed with Mercury Records in early 2008, and Soft Power was announced on April 7th. Soft Power was really a pop song with a sound reminiscent of the Bee Gees and Billy Joel, despite retaining a largely eclectic mix of styles. Gonzales had a chance to perform on the album.
The Ivory Tower, a Boys Noize album, appeared on the!Earshot National Top 50 Chart in 2010. The album's "Never Stop" was one of his best-known hits, and Apple Inc.'s worldwide advertisement campaign for the iPad 2 was featured on the piano. Apple modified the song for electric guitar.
Chilly Gonzales received an Album of the Year Grammy Award for his work on Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories."
He set a new world record for the longest solo-artist performance at the Ciné 13 Théâtre in Paris, taking the previous record of Prasanna Gudi's 20 hours, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds. He performed over 300 songs.
Gonzales launched Room 29, a joint venture with Jarvis Cocker, on March 17, 2017. The album is a song-cycle, and it tells of what happened in one room at a Hollywood hotel. On the day that the album was announced, Gonzales and Cocker performed at a concert hall in Hamburg, Germany.
Chilly Gonzales founded his own music academy in 2018. In Paris, seven musicians from around the world joined him to study at The Gonzervatory, an 8-day all-expenses-paid residential music performance workshop. The workshop featured coaching sessions with Gonzo, as well as masterclasses from Gonzales' acquaintances and collaborators such as Peaches, Socalled, Fred Wesley, and Jarvis Cocker. Evening rehearsals culminated in a last performance at the Trianon Theatre.