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KSHMR

Niles Hollowell-Dhar · Berkeley, CA → Top 12 DJ in the World
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He ghost-produced one of the biggest songs of an era — and nobody knew his name.

For years, Niles Hollowell-Dhar was the sound you knew without knowing the source. He wrote hits from the shadows, uncredited, invisible. The music moved millions; the man behind it stayed anonymous.

In 2014 he walked away from the ghost. He took a new name — KSHMR, after his father's homeland of Kashmir — and stepped into the light on his own terms. Sitar and tabla on the mainstage. Indian melody in front of festival crowds who'd never heard it there before. No apology, no dilution.

It's the whole Desi Punx idea in one arc: he could have stayed hidden and comfortable. Instead he put his roots in the title and made the world say his father's homeland out loud.

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