Alok (DJ)


Alok Achkar Peres Petrillo, known mononynosly as Alok, is a Brazilian musician, DJ, and record producer who is best known for his 2016 single "Hear Me Now". Since 2021, Alok was ranked the 4th best DJ in the world by DJ Mag for 4 consecutive years. In 2025, he achieved his highest placement to date, being named the third-best DJ in the world by the same publication.
Alok has become one of the most prominent icons in the Brazilian electronic scene, with honors and awards, such as "Best DJ in Brazil" by House Mag in 2014 and 2015, and being the only Brazilian in the top 25 in the world the following year by DJ Mag magazine. In 2017, he was elected by Forbes Brasil as one of the most influential people under the age of 30 in the country.
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Biography

Petrillo was born in Goiânia, Brazil, the son of DJs Swarup and Ekanta, who are also pioneers of psytrance in the country and creators of the Universo Paralello, electronic music festival in Bahia.
His name came after his parents travelled to India, where they met with spiritual guru Osho, who indicated that their child should be called Alok, which in the Sanskrit language means "light".

Career

Alok began his career at the age of 12 along with his fraternal twin brother Bhaskar Petrillo. At age 19 he pursued a solo career, becoming one of the most prominent icons in the Brazilian electronic scene, with honors and awards, such as "Best DJ in Brazil" awarded by House Mag for two consecutive times and the only Brazilian in the top 25 world DJ ranking by DJ Magazine in 2016.
At age 10 he began to learn to play, along with Bhaskar. In 2004, Petrillo and his brother visited the rehearsal studio of their father Swarup's band. According to Ekanta, his sons were interested in how the remixes were made. DJs Zumbi and Pedrão, family friends, taught the brothers to mix songs. Each one learned a specialty, one on the keyboard and the other on the guitar. Shortly thereafter, Dick Trevor installed the Logic Pro music editing program on Swarup's computer, bringing the brothers closer to producing music.
Petrillo and his brother attended the performances that their parents did at psytrance paries and soon created their first project, Logica.
Petrillo is also the founder of UP Club Records, a record label specializing in discovering new inborn talent in electronic music.
In November 2019, Alok Petrillo became a character of Garena Free Fire under his name Alok and Song released Vale Vale with Zafrir. in August 2021, according to in-game info from Garena Free Fire Alok is the most used character in game. Petrillo along with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike & KSHMR released "Reunion" on Controversia & Smash The House for Free Fire's 4th anniversary.

Record label

On 3 July 2019, Alok released a song called "The Wall" along with American DJ Sevenn as the first release from his record label Controversia, a label he created in partnership with Spinnin Records to release Brazilian bass music.

Discography

Remixes