A native of New York City's Brooklyn borough, Dawin was playing instruments at a young age and started to take music seriously as a teenager. He made a shrewd move through social media in January 2014. That's when he synchronized part of his lighthearted track "Just Girly Things" to a clip of Alfonso Ribeiro performing "the Carlton dance" and uploaded the result to Vine. Within a few months, Dawin was signed to the Republic-associated Casablanca label and released an official commercial version of "Just Girly Things." The single reached number 28 on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. After he remixed Ariana Grande and Iggy Azalea's "Problem," "Dessert" followed in March 2015 and peaked at number 39. ~ Andy Kellman