John Summit

Summit was an active DJ while studying accounting at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He would frequently DJ at venues like The Red Lion in Champaign and Canopy Club in Urbana. In 2019, finding his accounting job as a CPA at a major firm "soul-sucking," he switched to full-time producing, supporting himself with money he had saved. Summit's breakthrough onto the national stage came in 2020 with his track "Deep End," released on Defected Records, which became the longest-running Beatport No. 1 track of the year. More career growth followed in 2021 with the release of singles "Sun Came Up," a collaboration with Sofi Tukker, and "Human," (featuring Echoes) which became a No. 1 US dance track. By the end of 2021, he had amassed more than 4 million listeners on Spotify, rising to 7.8 million by September 2023. To close out 2021, Dancing Astronaut named him its Breakout Artist of the Year and he became Beatport's top-selling artist in all genres in 2021.