Elephante

Tim Wu was born in Ann Arbor in 1989 to parents who had come from Taipei. He learned classical piano, taught himself guitar and read economics at Harvard, then took a corporate job he did not want. The name Elephante comes from that — the elephant in the room.

He built a following on big-room progressive house and remixes of everyone from Clean Bandit to Lorde.

The Glass Mansion EP in 2018 was the turn: nine tracks with more guitar than synth, and it reached number one on the US iTunes dance chart. He later called it the test version of what came next.

Heavy Glow, his first full album, arrived on 88rising in October 2021 and is openly about identity, with a rock streak running through it. He plays guitar in his sets, which is rarer at a pool than it should be.

We have no Vegas date for him on the board right now. He tours steadily, so it is worth checking the venue calendars directly rather than treating this page as the last word.

Written from Wikipedia and Dancing Astronaut.