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Girl Talk, born as Gregg Michael Gillis, is an American DJ and record producer. He is best known for his mashup albums, which combine samples from different songs to create a new song. He has released five studio albums, including Feed the Animals (2008), All Day (2010), and Night Ripper (2006).
Gillis was born on October 26, 1981 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Chartiers Valley High School and graduated in 2000. He then attended Case Western Reserve University, where he studied biomedical engineering.
Gillis began producing music in his bedroom in the early 2000s, using samples from various sources. He released his first album, Secret Diary, in 2002. His second album, Unstoppable, was released in 2004. His third album, Night Ripper, was released in 2006 and was his breakthrough album. It was named one of the best albums of the year by Pitchfork Media.
Gillis has released five studio albums, including Feed the Animals (2008), All Day (2010), and Girl Talk (2013). He has also released several EPs and mixtapes. He has toured extensively, performing at festivals such as Coachella, Bonnaroo, and Lollapalooza.
As of 2021, Girl Talk's net worth is estimated to be around $2 million.
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Gregg Michael Gillis |
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| Age |
43 years old |
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Scorpio |
| Born |
26 October, 1981 |
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26 October |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Nationality |
United States |
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Girl Talk Height, Weight & Measurements
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Girl Talk Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Gillis played at the Coachella Festival in 2014. For the first time in one of his live shows, artists, including Busta Rhymes, E-40, Juicy J and Freeway, performed their vocals over his mashups.
Gillis began producing music with AudioMulch software, which he still uses, played live from a computer. During a live performance, he uses samples and loops to play a set — allowing room for variation throughout the set. His live sets are typically accompanied by video content on stage. He has been known to bring fans on stage to dance during performances.
In 2012, Illegal Art started to be on an indefinite hiatus, so Girl Talk was not able to release any more of his works through them. In 2013, Girl Talk continued his work on a new mashup album, producing various hip-hop beats and tracks along with his live shows. In 2014, Girl Talk and Freeway performed an unknown collaboration during a private show. Then, Girl Talk released a video clip for "Tolerated" with Freeway and Waka Flocka Flame. The Broken Ankles EP was released soon after via DatPiff.
For possible future projects, Gillis is considering creating an original song rather than full-length albums featuring songs by other musicians tied together. Girl Talk released his fifth LP All Day on November 15, 2010 – free through the Illegal Art website. A U.S. tour in support of All Day began in Gillis's hometown of Pittsburgh with two sold-out shows at the then-recently completed Stage AE concert hall. Since Gillis releases his music under Creative Commons licenses, fans may legally use it in derivative works. Many create mashup video collages using the samples' original music videos. Filmmaker Jacob Krupnick chose Gillis's full-length album All Day as the soundtrack for Girl Walk//All Day, an extended music video set in New York City.
Gillis' hometown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, named December 7, 2010 "Gregg Gillis Day".
Gillis has given his own different explanations for the origin of his stage name, once saying that it alluded to a Jim Morrison poem and once saying that it alluded to an early Merzbow side project. In 2009, he attributed the name to Tad, the early 1990s SubPop band, based in Seattle. Gillis has said the name sounded like a Disney music teen girl group.
Gillis is featured heavily in the 2008 open source documentary RiP!: A Remix Manifesto.
Feed the Animals was number four on Time's Top 10 Albums of 2008. Rolling Stone gave the album four stars and ranked the album #24 on their Top 50 albums of 2008. Blender rated it the second-best recording/album of 2008, and National Public Radio listeners rated it the 16th best album of the year.
In 2008, he appeared as a test case for fair use in Brett Gaylor's RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, a call to overhaul copyright laws. His parents, in one scene, complain to him about his frequent stripping during his performances.
Gillis worked as an engineer, but he quit in May 2007 to focus solely on music.
In 2007, Girl Talk appeared in Good Copy Bad Copy, a documentary about the current state of copyright law and remix culture.
Night Ripper was number 34 on Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2006, number 22 on Rolling Stone's Best Albums of 2006, and number 27 on Spin's 40 Best Albums of 2006. In 2007, Gillis was the recipient of a Wired magazine Rave Award.
Gregg Michael Gillis (born October 26, 1981), known by the stage name Girl Talk, is an American disc jockey who specializes in mashups and digital sampling. Gillis has released five LPs on the record label Illegal Art and EPs on both 333 and 12 Apostles. He was trained as an engineer.
