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American record producer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Cook Mears IV[1] (born May 10, 1994), better known as NITTI[2] is a Miami based record producer, DJ and vocalist.[3][4][5] His collaboration with Party Favor as Sidepiece, a music duo group,[6] was nominated for a Grammy in 2021 under Best Dance Recording segment for their 2019 single "On My Mind" featuring Diplo.[7][8] NITTI is known for collaborating and working with Enrique Iglesias,[9] Pitbull,[10] DJ Snake,[11][12] Shaquille O'Neal,[13] Tiesto, Diplo, Ookay,[14] Jimmy Levy,[15] Shndō,[16] etc. In 2019, NITTI's single "200 MPH" with Diplo won a Latin Grammy, which was on Bad Bunny's album X 100PRE.[17]
NITTI | |
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Birth name | Richard Cook Mears IV |
Born | May 10, 1994 |
Genres | |
Occupation(s) | DJ, producer, musician |
Years active | 2016–present |
Labels | |
Member of | Sidepiece |
Raised in Pennsylvania, Mears moved with his family to Haiti at the age of six where his parents served in Christian missionary work—his father as a soccer coach and his mother, a teacher.[10] After living In Haiti for eight years, he moved to Miami, Florida.[18] He started his professional music career under the name Nitti in the year 2016 as he released "It's Nit!".[19][20] In 2018, he attended his first world tour and Ghastly's The Mystifying Oracle Tour. In the same year he produced Enrique's "Move To Miami" featuring Pitbull[9] and Bad Bunny's "200 MPH", with Diplo.[17] His 2018 release Crack was the 7th most played song at 2018 Ultra Music Festival.[21] Mears performed in Audiotistic Music Festival,[22] Electric Daisy Carnival,[23][24] Life in Color,[25] Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival,[26] Asteria Music Festival etc. His single "200 MPH", received a Latin Grammy in 2019.[11]
On September 19, 2019, Nitti announced collaboration with Party Favor to form the duo Sidepiece.[27][28] Their debut release was "Wanna See You" published through Billboard.[6][29] Their 2020 single "On My Mind" was nominated in the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards for Best Dance Recording segment.[30][31][32] In 2020, he was ranked the 14th in the list of the Top 101 Producers in the world by 1001tracklists.com.[33][34]
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