Harry Bauer Rodrigues, born on the 30th of April 1989 in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is best known by the moniker “Baauer”. Baauer is a producer of bass and trap music and has become famous for his breakout track “Harlem Shake”.
Nonetheless, Rodrigues has been creating dance music in the age of thirteen, mainly creating electro and house music. He formerly created a song below the title Captain Harry, that was broadcast by Kissy Sell Out by way of BBC Radio 1. His impacts include hip hop and dance-music. As such, Baauer has created remixes for No Doubt, Flosstradamus, The Prodigy and Nero.
As a child, Baauer was raised in a number of nations, as a result of his dad’s work. He resided in Germany from age 4 to 7, the UK from 7 to 13, subsequently came back to the USA, where he resided in Westport, Connecticut from age thirteen to age seventeen. In Westport, he went to Staples High-School up to ’06, prior to going back to reside the United Kingdom for an additional year, studying at “The American School” in London. He afterwards relocated to New York to examine sound technologies at City College. After residing in Harlem for a couple of years, equally on and off-campus, he moved to Brooklyn ’09, and now is located in the Bushwick neighborhood.
With his passion for music, Baauer was brought in to the “LuckyMe” music label in August of 2012, and produced his advent against the 3 track twelve-inch record called “Dum Dum”.
On May 22nd of 2012, Baauer’s track “Harlem Shake” was launched on Mad Decent which was distributed by Jeffrees. This song obtained critical praise with Pitchfork promising “it’s difficult to not marvel at just how wonderful those snarling-lion sample sounds”.
“Harlem Shake” developed a viral movie craze on-line, motivating enthusiasts to add their very own videos for the strike from February 2013 forward, regularly showcasing those included staying still for the initial build-up of the tune, and dance unpredictably or humorously afterward.
Baauer worked with hip-hop maker Just Blaze to create the song entitled “Higher”. Both music makers engaged in a concurrent music tour all through January and February of 2013. After this, Baauer worked on an album which was unveiled on LuckyMe Records back in 2013.
In March of 2013, Baauer was branded 1 of Fuse Television’s Thirty must see musicians at SXSW.
For his tune “Harlem Shake”, Baauer picked up Dance Tune of the Year and EDM Tune of the Year during the Billboard Music Awards of 2013.
