Johnny Yono

American DJ and producer Johnny Yono was born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. His passion for electronic music began in the late 90s when he was sucked in to Detroit's underground rave scene. It wasn't until years later that he started to experiment with producing his own music, but at first only as a hobby. After parting ways with his rock band in 2000, he was bit by the acting bug and further pursued a TV/Film career in Los Angeles after heading out West in 2003.

Johnny rediscovered his love for electronic music in 2007 after seeing live performances by Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk and Sasha & Digweed. This resulted in him placing his acting career on the back-burner, he got to work quickly building a small studio and constructing dance music pieces. After several years of crafting and refining his now inimitable edgy progressive trance sound his career in production/DJ'ing really started to take shape. In 2011 he was discovered by Daniel Kandi and Phillip Alpha, who saw great potential in Johnny after hearing his remix of Roger Shah's single 'Lay Down'. Almost instantly Johnny signed exclusively to UK's fast rising progressive trance label, Enhanced Recordings.

The latter part of 2011 and the beginning of 2012 brought Johnny great success with his hit single 'Fairfax' which saw massive support from Armin van Buuren on 'A State of Trance' and also racked up four appearances on Markus Schulz's 'Global DJ Broadcast' including winning the "Global Selection". Fairfax also reached number 11 on Beatport's Top 100 Trance chart and was continuously hammered out in DJ's live sets thereafter.

Other supporters of Johnny's music include the likes of Armin van Buuren, Markus Schulz, Dash Berlin, Rank 1, Richard Durand, M.I.K.E., Andy Moor, BT, Paul Oakenfold, Marco V, Orjan Nilsen, Sean Tyas, W&W, Ernesto Vs. Bastian, Arty, Mat Zo, Roger Shah, Jochen Miller, Lange, Ashley Wallbridge, Tritonal, Ronski Speed, tyDi, Bobina, Stoneface & Terminal, Marcus Schossow, Will Holland, Leon Bolier, Max Graham, Protoculture, Ruben de Ronde, Talla 2XLC, Daniel Kandi, and DJ Feel to name a few.

As a DJ Johnny is certainly one to keep an eye on behind the decks, having shared the stage with some of the biggest names in Electronic Dance Music including Roger Shah, Lange, Kyau & Albert, Tritonal, John '00 Fleming and Thomas Bronzwaer.