Marshmello’s ‘true identification’ was by accident revealed by Skrillex
Who remembers the time when Skrillex by accident revealed the person behind the moniker of Marshmello?
Secret identities in pop music is not something new, in spite of everything, Daft Punk spent nearly all of their profession performing behind two robotic masks, whereas everybody from Slipknot to Sia and Deadmau5 obscured their faces infrequently.
Nonetheless, this does not cease us from being curious to find the identities of those mysterious, limelight-shunning musicians.
Within the case of DJ and document producer Marshmello, followers did not have to attend too lengthy to be taught the ‘Happier’ hitmaker’s true identification, because it was revealed for us by Skrillex.
So who’s Marshmello – and why does he obscure his identification with a large smiling marshmallow masks?
Who’s Marshmello?
Marshmello has by no means explicitly come ahead and revealed his identification since blowing up again in 2016.
In-fact, he even as soon as spoke in opposition to sharing his actual title with the world, writing on X again in 2017: “I do not take my helmet off as a result of I do not need or want fame. I am genuinely making an attempt to create one thing optimistic for folks to attach with.”
Nonetheless, you would argue that he did not should, because the query about placing a face to the DJ was by accident revealed by Skrillex earlier than he even reached mainstream consciousness.
Throughout a 2015 interview with Yahoo, the musician – actual title Sonny John Moore – receives a cellphone name from a contact titled ‘Chris Marshmello’. He then solutions the decision and locations him on speaker cellphone to talk with the interviewer.
From right here it did not take followers lengthy to infer that Marshmello was none apart from Chris Comstock, who additionally goes by the stage title Dotcom.
This is not the primary time which Skrillex has accidentally-on-purpose leaked Marshmello’s identification both, with the DJ sharing a ‘Joyful Birthday’ message to his buddy on 19 Could, which additionally occurs to be Comstock’s birthday (via YourEDM). Oops.
Forbes later confirmed the hypothesis by tracing Comstock by means of music rights organisation BMI, revealing that he was credited for a number of Marshmello hits.
So, whereas Comstock is unlikely to ever explicitly affirm that he’s Marshmello, it is fairly protected to say that he most definitely is.
What’s Marshmello so far?
The document producer remains to be very energetic within the music trade, lately releasing tracks ‘Holy Water’ and ‘Higher Man Than Me’ with Jelly Roll and Hudson Westbrook respectively.
Comstock additionally fashioned a pop-punk band, Underbrook, earlier this yr, proving that he’s a really busy man certainly.
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