The 27 year old Los Angeles based DJ and Producer ‘Dillon Francis' recently held an interview with Village Voice where he talks about his wildly popular alter-egos and Instagram personalities.
If you have yet to check out Dillon Francis on Instagram, Dillon Francis boasts more than 499,000 followers on his Instagram account @DILLONFRANCIS and each post of his receives roughly 20,000 likes. Besides being a superstar DJ and producer, Dillon is popular due to his alter egos and personalities. These alter egos includes personalities, such as DJ Hanzel (the German deep house producer), Becky (an upper-class stereotypical white girl), Klaud (a fashion critic from Central Europe) and Treva (a spoiled Australian teenager).
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Dillon Francis says that he was pretty much only allowed to watch comedies as a kid.
“I think during that time Jim Carrey was pretty PG; that was like the main person I was obsessed with when I was younger. I think that helped a lot with, you know, me just not really caring about what I do and just trying to make people laugh. Because I just enjoy it. It's one of my favorite things, making people laugh.”
Dillon went on to say that when people run into him “a lot of people think they know me! Like they'll see me and they'll be like, ‘Hey!' and I'll think I know them! And they just talk to me like I'm their friend, and then I actually don't know who the person is at all, and, I mean, they just know me through being on Instagram.”
“I just still think it's amazing that people look into my music and watch my Instagram videos and even wanna go to my shows, 'cause I was just a kid that wanted to play at a small little tiny club — I just wanted to play at [Hollywood event space] Cinespace. That's how it all started.”
