My Take
Porter Robinson is one of those rare producers who makes you feel something in a genre that often prioritizes the drop over actual emotion. Growing up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and signing to OWSLA at just 18, he could have stayed in the comfortable lane of festival EDM — but then Worlds came out in 2014 and completely rewrote what electronic music was allowed to be: lush, melancholic, anime-influenced, genuinely tender. The guy wears his love of Japanese game and animation culture completely unironically, and somehow that sincerity is exactly what makes his music hit so hard. Nurture in 2021 doubled down on that emotional honesty, and his Second Sky festival feels like a deliberate rejection of everything hollow about the EDM era he technically came from. I find that kind of artistic integrity genuinely rare.
Overview
Porter Weston Robinson (born July 15, 1992) is an American DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Robinson began producing electronic music during his adolescence. He signed to Skrillex's record label OWSLA at the age of 18 and released the extended play Spitfire in 2011. He appeared on Billboard's 21 Under 21 list in 2012.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Porter Robinson
- Name (Japanese)
- ポーター・ロビンソン
- Reading
- ぽーたー・ろびんそん
- Born
- July 15, 1992 (age 33)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Monkey
- Origin
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- disc jockey / record producer / composer / recording artist / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.