Dave Aude
Dave Audé, a California-based remixer and club DJ, began his career at 22 as a MIDI instructor before making house music at the Los Angeles club Truth in the 1990s. With Truth owner Steve Levy, he co-founded Moonshine Music and built a West Hollywood studio, and in 2006 launched his own imprint, Audacious Records, through which he released compilation albums including “Audacious,” “2 Audacious,” and later volumes. He served as music director for the Pussycat Dolls' Doll Domination Tour and appeared on the television series “Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious.” On New Year's Eve 2023 he played live across fourteen West Coast television stations reaching more than 70 million households, showcasing material from his LP “Motions.” Audé has produced more than 130 number-one U.S. Dance tracks, a tally the industry credits as more than any other producer, and won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording for his rework of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars's “Uptown Funk,” adding two further Grammy nominations for remixes of Dean Coleman and of Demi Lovato and Ariana Grande.