Hi everyone, I'm Zoya Hassan, and I'm here with one of the biggest rising stars in dance music right now.

He's played on global stages from Ibiza to London to Cancun, and in 2024, he was the only DJ to make our Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

And beyond the stage, he's also running his own record label,

John Summitt, how we feel in?

I'm feeling amazing. Thanks for having me.

Thank you so much for joining.

I'm so excited to chat with you, and there's so much to break down.

I want to hear all about your summer in Europe.

But before we get into the John Summit of it all, I want to talk about the John Schuster of it all.

So how did John Schuster become John Summit? Tell me this story.

Well, so I always love going to concerts and a music festival, so I always love electronic music.

But I had to get a normal job first because, of course, it was just a hobby and passion,

making music and playing music.

So I went to college for accounting at University of Illinois, Urbano-Champaign, and then

I was a bartender at a bar, and then they needed a DJ.

So I'm like, screw it.

I'm going to begin my DJ career here.

And then, yeah, I was playing a few times a week, and it was going very well,

and it was just a huge passion of mine.

And eventually got enough words spread out enough that I was all right at DJing,

where I got booked to, like, open for a touring DJ at a concert um at like the local concert hall called a canopy club and champagne and it was my first DJ set was before

cash cash yeah so this was over 10 years ago um and then but the day of the show they told me that

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