Final month, the NFL introduced that Tiesto could be the primary in-game celebrity DJ for Tremendous Bowl LVIII, taking part in a set previous to the sport because the gamers warmed up and the followers discovered their seats. The plan was then for the Dutch DJ and music producer to spin throughout sport breaks and all through the Tremendous Bowl leisure slate.
What could possibly be extra Las Vegas than that? Sadly, as occurs so typically on the planet of soccer, destiny intervened and the Grammy-winning worldwide star needed to cancel final minute as a consequence of a “private household emergency.”
Me and my staff have been getting ready one thing actually particular for months, however a private household emergency is forcing me to return house Sunday morning. It was a troublesome resolution to overlook the sport, however household at all times comes first. Thanks to the @NFL for the collaboration and searching…
— Tiësto (@tiesto) February 8, 2024
As at all times, the NFL had a staff backup and Kaskade stepped in to fill the void within the Tremendous Bowl music roster. Though not as well-known globally as Tiesto, the Chicago-born DJ is way extra aware of the massive sport than his Dutch counterpart — and with town of Las Vegas itself.
As a child who grew up in Chicago watching the @NFL Tremendous Bowl yearly with my household this opportunity to truly be a part of it’s completely thoughts blowing. Las Vegas has been my second house for the previous decade, as an architect of making a panorama that features Home and Dance… pic.twitter.com/UQ9w6cUNyr
— Kaskade (@kaskade) February 9, 2024
However who is that this man who’ll be on the decks throughout segments of the Tremendous Bowl airing on CBS right this moment? The NFL has had pre-game DJs previously, starting with DJ Khaled in Miami in 2020, however that is the primary yr that they’ve been invited to stay round after kick-off.
Born in Chicago as Ryan Gary Raddon, Kaskade, now 52, started DJing in 1995 from a basement venue named Membership Manhattan. His street to Allegiant Stadium and the worldwide viewers of the Tremendous Bowl started after a transfer to San Francisco received him concerned within the deep home motion there. This was additionally when Raddon took on the identify “Kaskade,” though his spouse was apprehensive it sounded an excessive amount of just like the dish detergent! He went on to turn out to be know for early tracks like “What I Say,” “Be Nonetheless” and “Sorry” — a remix for which was nominated for a 2008 Grammy for Greatest Remixed Recording — at OM Information, earlier than shifting to Extremely Information, the place he labored with deadmau5.
The 2000s noticed Kaskade’s reputation explode, and included his first soccer stadium efficiency in 2009 on the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum throughout the Electrical Daisy Carnival. “I keep in mind wanting on the sea of individuals: the entire soccer area was full,” he instructed the New York Occasions. “I simply knew this was the start of one thing. There’s no music act that may do that proper now — U2, Coldplay. No person’s going to place this quantity of individuals into an enviornment proper now.”
Kaskade has since been nominated for seven Grammy Awards, and was voted as “America’s Greatest DJ” in 2011 and 2013. He’s additionally no stranger to the Las Vegas social gathering crowd, having turn out to be resident DJ at Encore Seashore Membership events in 2010, which have been dubbed “Kaskade Sundays.”
The EDM god can now earn as much as $225,000 a present, making him one of many highest paid DJs on the planet — and greater than worthy to take middle stage with the likes of Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Christian McCaffrey on Sunday.
