Gryffin
Gryffin is the stage name of Daniel Griffith, a San Francisco-born DJ and producer who first built an audience through White Panda, a mashup project he ran with childhood friend Tom Evans starting in 2009 while he studied electrical engineering at USC. White Panda toured college campuses nationally from July 2011, playing alongside acts like Flo Rida and Wale and later appearing at Firefly Music Festival and Lollapalooza, giving Griffith an early grounding in live show pacing before he launched Gryffin as a solo act. As Gryffin, he moved into remix work and original melodic dance production, building a fanbase across Spotify and YouTube through reworkings of songs by Tove Lo and Maroon 5 among others. His classical piano training and guitar background have shaped a DJ style that favors melodic builds and vocal-forward dance tracks over harder club sounds, a signature that has carried through his festival sets. Gryffin's transition from a college-circuit mashup duo to a headlining solo DJ reflects a steady climb built on remix visibility before original material took over as his primary calling card, and he has continued to tour behind that melodic house and pop-dance sound.