Age, Biography and Wiki

DJ Champion (Maxime Morin) was born on 23 September, 1969 in Montreal, Canada, is an An electronic dance music DJs. Discover DJ Champion's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

Popular As Maxime Morin
Occupation Musician, composer, songwriter, session musician
Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 23 September 1969
Birthday 23 September
Birthplace Montreal, Canada
Nationality Canada

We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 23 September. He is a member of famous Musician with the age 54 years old group.

DJ Champion Height, Weight & Measurements

At 54 years old, DJ Champion height not available right now. We will update DJ Champion's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.

Physical Status
Height Not Available
Weight Not Available
Body Measurements Not Available
Eye Color Not Available
Hair Color Not Available

Dating & Relationship status

He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.

Family
Parents Not Available
Wife Not Available
Sibling Not Available
Children Not Available

DJ Champion Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is DJ Champion worth at the age of 54 years old? DJ Champion’s income source is mostly from being a successful Musician. He is from Canada. We have estimated DJ Champion's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
Salary in 2023 Under Review
House Not Available
Cars Not Available
Source of Income Musician

DJ Champion Social Network

Instagram DJ Champion Instagram
Linkedin
Twitter DJ Champion Twitter
Facebook DJ Champion Facebook
Wikipedia DJ Champion Wikipedia
Imdb

Timeline

1957

Morin and Bonifassi worked together again on a version of 1957 Screamin' Jay Hawkins hit "I Put a Spell on You"; it was used as the theme song of the Québécois film Truffe which premiered at the Fantasia Festival in January 2008.

1969

Maxime Morin (born c. 1969), is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, better known for his work in electronic music under the name DJ Champion or simply Champion.

Morin is based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Maxime Morin began playing guitar at age 13, playing mostly heavy metal music.

He went on to play in a few punk and metal bands, but by the age of 25 he found himself moving away from metal and gravitating towards techno.

1976

Morin would go on to perform the bass and percussion on the song "Belleville Rendez-vous" and he also performed the song live, along with Charest and vocalist Béatrice (Betty) Bonifassi, at the 76th Academy Awards ceremony—Morin played percussion on a bicycle during the live performance.

One of the main protagonists in Les Triplettes de Belleville is an aspiring cyclist who happens to be named Champion; Morin has stated that he was already performing under that name before the film was even created.

1980

Morin's girlfriend at the time took him to a warehouse show and soon he began to attend techno Sundays at Les Foufounes Électriques, a Montreal nightclub better known in the 1980s and 90s for booking punk and alternative rock acts.

1990

In the late 1990s, Québécois composer Benoît Charest attended a Mad Max performance; after the show Charest approached Morin with a business proposal; the two men went on to become co-owners of Ben & Max Studios—a company specializing in jingles and soundtracks.

1994

By 1994 Morin began producing his own dance music and was performing around the Montreal club scene under the names Le Max and Mad Max.

By about age 27 he stopped playing guitar altogether.

2001

Ben & Max Studios became quite successful, however in 2001 Morin sold his share in the company back to Charest in order to continue his own personal musical career.

By 2001 Morin had become frustrated with commercial music work.

As part owner of Ben & Max Studios he was making quite a good living producing music for advertising and film, but he also felt "empty."

He decided to leave that world to focus on more personal music.

He decided to move in a musical direction where he could combine "the two things that made [him] feel good: Live electronics and guitars..."

He also chose to change his performance name from Mad Max to DJ Champion as a way to poke fun at the growing dance music scene and the resulting outbreak of DJs: "Everybody wanted to be a DJ and wanted to know 'Who's the best DJ?' I was like, 'I don't give a damn about all that crap now. I'm DJ Champion."

The DJ Champion sound was formed by experimenting with the software music sequencer Ableton Live, which is specially designed for live DJing and arranging sounds.

He would then layer the digitally produced beats and sounds with guitar loops.

During live performances he and his live band would tour as "Champion et ses G Strings" ("Champion and his G Strings").

His live act often consists of four guitarists, one bassist, a vocalist, and Morin working at his laptop and conducting the band.

On occasion Morin has also played live drums.

2003

Even after leaving their business partnership, Morin remained in close contact with Charest who was working on the score for the 2003 animated film, The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville).

2004

The transition was a gradual one: "Totally, I was like 'Dance music is crap!' So it was actually a big liberation, to lose my fear of dance music," said Morin in a 2004 interview.

2005

2005 saw the release of DJ Champion's debut album, Chill'em All.

The album included the hit single "No Heaven" — a soulful and bluesy song set against heavy dance beats and noisy guitar riffs.

Chill'em All won an ADISQ Félix Award in 2005 for "Album of the Year" in the electronic/techno category and was nominated for "Best Dance Recording" at the 2006 Juno Awards.

2006

The single "No Heaven" was nominated at the 2006 CASBY Awards in the category "Favourite New Song" and won the SOCAN prize for Dance Music in 2007.

DJ Champion's indie debut went on to sell over 100,000 copies across Canada.

In 2006, Morin released The Remix Album, an album featuring remixes of tracks from "Chill'em All" by such guest musicians as Akufen and Patrick Watson.

2007

The Remix Album garnered Morin another ADISQ Félix Award for "Show of the Year" and it was also nominated for Dance Recording of the Year at the 2007 Juno Awards.

2008

In the winter of 2008, after a long spate of touring and performing, Morin felt that his newer material was starting to sound too similar to the songs of Chill'em All and he decided to delete an entire studio recording in order to start fresh.

Morin withdrew himself from the musical scene and began experimenting.

He also recruited Pilou Côté, a young musician from the Montreal music scene, to provide vocals, replacing Betty Bonifassi who had since moved on to her own electronic music project, Beast.

2009

The single "No Heaven" was used in both a trailer and the ending credits of Gearbox Software's 2009 video game Borderlands, and is used in the opening credits of the television series The Line and the ending credits of the game Army of Two.

Resistance was released on September 15, 2009.

The first single from the album is titled "Alive Again".

2010

On May 18, 2010 it was announced on DJ Champion's official website that all confirmed concert dates up until July 3, 2010 were cancelled.

2019

Inspired by Negro Songs of Protest recorded by music collector Lawrence Gellert, Béatrice "Betty" Bonifassi (with whom Morin had previously collaborated on the Les Triplettes de Belleville soundtrack) sings a plaintive tune reminiscent of the work songs sung by the chain-gangs of the American South in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

"I heard Betty singing those blues songs, and she was the girl for that job," said Morin.