Vancouver-based electronic dance producer Vanic (aka Jesse Hughes) first caught listeners' attention with a string of well-received remixes -- including his reworking of machineheart's 2015 track "Circles" -- before releasing his own trap- and house-influenced tracks. Following debut "Samurai," he scored his first chart appearance in 2017 with Top 40 single "Too Soon."
Hughes began playing piano when he was three but grew bored with the confines of his classical training, and soon dabbled in jazz and ragtime piano while listening to metal and happy hardcore. In high school, h...