John James Borger Jr., better known by his

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Borgeous (stylized as BORGEOUS), is an American DJ and

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. The LA-based Platinum recording artist and DJ/producer has charted three Billboard Dance Radio Top 10s, three Beatport #1's and a #1 on the iTunes Dancechart in 15 countries.

Career

His "AGGRO" launched his career in 2013. Other releases include "From Cali With Love", "GANGSTEROUS", "Rags to Riches". However "

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", a track he laid down in collaboration with Canadian electronic music duo DVBBS that yielded international fame. The single became a big hit at festivals and was occasionally attributed to DJ

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, but was confirmed by

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to be the work of DVBBS and Borgeous.Zel McCarthy
“Sander van Doorn’s ‘Tsunami’ Mystery Almost Revealed,”
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'', August 16, 2013. In its world exclusive, Tong played the song on his show on

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on August 16, 2013. ''

'' magazine called it “the most played tune at

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,” the 2013 Belgian electronic music festival. It was officially released on Doorn Records on August 19, 2013. A week later, it reached #1 on the

Beatport Beatport is an American electronic music-oriented online music store owned by LiveStyle. The company is based in Denver, Los Angeles, and Berlin. Beatport is oriented primarily towards disk jockey, DJs, selling full songs as well as resources that ...

100. It reached #1 on iTunes in 15 different countries, #1 on Beatport, received an EMPO Award for ‘Track of the Year’ and was nominated for the Juno Award ‘Best Dance Recording of the Year’. On 15 October 2013, he was signed by

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. In 2014, he reached the top 10 on Billboard's Dance Radio chart not just once, but twice with “Invincible” and “Wildfire”. “Invincible” also became the #2 Song of 2014 on SiriusXM's BPM Radio and Wildfire was #14. He was recruited to remake Afrojack's lead single featuring

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, "Ten Feet Tall" for Universal Music as well as

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's "One Last Time".Borgeous
Circle Talent Agency. Retrieved on 2016-01-17.

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gave him a residency on his weekly podcast “House of Borgeous”. He ranked #87 in DJ Mag's 2013 Top 100 DJs.

Discography

References

External links

Official website
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