Diplo

Biography

Thomas Wesley Pentz (born November 10, 1978), better known by his stage name Diplo, is a Philadelphia-based American DJ, producer, and songwriter. Together with DJ Low Budget, he runs Hollertronix, a club and music collective. He also founded and manages record company Mad Decent, as well as the not for profit organization Heaps Decent. Among other jobs, Pentz has worked as a school teacher in Philadelphia. During his rise to notability, Diplo worked with British musician M.I.A., an artist who is credited with helping expose him in his early career. Later, Pentz and fellow M.I.A. producer Switch created a Jamaican dancehall project titled Major Lazer. Since then, Diplo has worked on production and mixtape projects with many other notable pop artists. Pentz's alias, short for Diplodocus, derives from his childhood fascination with dinosaurs. For the artist Diplodocus, see their redirected profile: https://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Diplodocus Wrong redirections like this cannot be corrected at the moment, see this related support FAQ: https://support.last.fm/t/about-incorrect-artist-and-track-spellings-on-last-fm/193 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.