Biography

Brian Kelley, better known by his stage name BKAYE, is an American electronic pop artist, producer, and DJ from the Bay Area. Soon after arriving to college, the young producer caught Diplo’s attention when he remixed Major Lazer’s massive hit single “Be Together.” Major Lazor played out BKAYE’s remix around the world on the main stages of Coachella, Lollapalooza, and EDC Las Vegas 2016. Following this burst of success, BKAYE started getting requests to do official remixes for the likes of Gryffin, Lost Kings, Anne-Marie, SHAED, Cheat Codes, Vanic and more, racking up over 30 million streams on Spotify in the following years and receiving strong editorial support for his work in “Mint,” “Dance Rising,” “Pop Remix,” “Friday Crate-Diggers” and more! BKAYE continued to make his stamp in the electronic music scene by finding virality on TikTok with his emotional and hooky piano house single "My Mistake" that landed him his first Spotify editorials for an original song as well as his first Spotify cover for "Fresh Finds Dance." He followed that massive release with "All In My Head," another emotional stutter house song, which landed in "New Music Friday," "Radar US" artists to watch in 2023 playlist, a huge number of Spotify dance playlists globally, as well as making BKAYE the cover of Spotify's "Emotional Dance" playlist. 2023 is set to be a take-off year for BKAYE as he continues to roll out emotional dance hits!