Gromo will be the first person to tell you he's not one to follow rules when it comes to music. Where others carefully color within the lines, he shatters the canvas, picks up the broken remains and creates a sonic mosaic uniquely his own. It's a creative approach the Guatemala-born, NYC-based rising producer/artist, born Brae Gromek, has cultivated throughout his years in the industry as a savvy event producer, tastemaker DJ and dedicated student of music at NYU's renowned Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. 

Gromo’s singular sound explores the intersection of hip-hop culture and dance music of all shades, a genre-less approach he’s developed since debuting his first original singles in 2016. His early string of breakout independent releases captures his eclectic, future-bound style in full: electronic rhythms blending with rap swagger, sensual R&B melodies and richly textured production, all while rooted in his rock and metal background. The late-night hustle of “Don't Care,” featuring Hush, with whom he’s worked throughout the years, digs deep into trap beats, while the festival-ready “Nuke” bridges the worlds of rap and EDM. On “Find Me (Marco Polo),” Gromo leans into seductive R&B melodies as the vocalist flexes melodic rap bars, and “Give Me” is an electronic-tinged dancehall party-starter.

Gromo continues to expand his sound in 2020. On his new single, the sultry "Slowly," featuring breakout vocalist Rhea Raj, Gromo fuses cultures in a Latin-meets-Indian-pop reggaeton beat. Inspired by the producer's recent travels to Miami, where he connected with the city's Latin vibes and his own Latin roots, "Slowly" features minimal yet hypnotizing production, throwback R&B melodies and sexy tropical rhythms, all with a modern twist. Elsewhere, his forthcoming new single, "Wake Up," is an 808-heavy melodic rap breakup anthem built on sparse, bass-rattling trap drums and Hush’s melancholic lyrics, while "Cold Weather" features a hard-edged rap beat loop set to infinity.

"After a few years of making music, I started developing my own style and I started to find the sounds I really connect with. Now, I've reached this new place where I started to expand my sonics and develop my own sound as a producer/artist," Gromo says of his forthcoming music.

Gromo first emerged as a budding DJ-to-watch during the mid-2010s in the NYC nightlife circuit as a teen. He'd spent countless hours after school learning the elements of sound design and live performance from his mentor JP Solis, the renowned NYC club DJ. The two formed a lifelong creative and business alliance that soon saw them producing under-18 live events at leading NYC nightlife hotspots like Pacha, Pink Elephant and Riff Raffs. He caught the attention of the team behind Ultra Music Festival (UMF), who quickly booked him to perform at the festival's Miami flagship event in 2015, becoming the youngest DJ (age 16) to play UMF. 

He continued to perform at international events across Europe and Asia, during which he rediscovered his love for music and began to refocus on production. As a self-identified, self-taught cultural historian, he studied the cultures and histories behind his favorite genres, with a heavy focus on hip-hop. He dove into the classics—Run-DMC, Eric B. & Rakim, Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan—and picked up production elements that would inform his own style.

Gromo's wide-spanning sound is rooted in his day-one natural curiosity in music, a trait he attributes to his musically inclined upbringing. He grew up surrounded by his father's music collection, a diverse soundtrack of iconic pop stars and Motown classics. 

He would later graduate to rock and heavy metal, attracted to the frenetic live energy of bands like AC/DC, Metallica and Slipknot, which naturally evolved into a deep interest in the headbanging sounds of dubstep and electronic music by way of Skrillex. After teaching himself the basics of DJing and production, via Logic and Ableton Live videos and tutorials on YouTube, he committed himself to life as an artist. His fan-first love for music and the history behind it continues to influence his own sound to this day. 

"Music comes from a long history of developments and connections occurring throughout history," Gromo says. "As someone who's very fascinated with learning from the past, I try to reflect those musical connections in my own music. That's why I combine so many different sounds. To be a great producer, you need to be multidimensional, you need to gather influences from all sorts of genres. I'll always be someone who'll take from other genres and combine it all to create my own vision."