Tchami is the stage name of Martin Joseph Leonard Bresso, a French DJ and record producer born May 12, 1985, in Cahors, in the Occitanie region of southwest France, according to his Wikipedia biography. He began classical music training at age four, and his family relocated to the outskirts of Paris when he was eight, where he grew up with two younger sisters. It was in that Paris suburb that he became close friends, in his mid-teens, with a fellow future producer named William Grigahcine, who would go on to become DJ Snake, a friendship that later shaped much of his career. On the origin of his stage name, Tchami has said it is “a name that has been given to me in Africa which is an honour,” adding that it “sounded catchy” so he kept it.

Bresso entered the electronic music scene in 2013 with a remix of Janet Jackson’s “Go Deep,” but his breakout came on July 24, 2013, when Fool’s Gold Records released his free EP “Promesses,” featuring British vocalist Kaleem Taylor and co-written and co-produced with DJ Snake, per the dedicated Wikipedia entry on the track. A commercial radio edit followed through Ministry of Sound in January 2015, and the song became a genuine UK hit, reaching number 7 on the UK Singles Chart, topping the UK Indie Chart, and hitting number 2 on the UK Dance Chart, before going on to earn a UK Gold certification for combined sales and streams of 400,000 units. The success established the sound he and a small circle of collaborators were pioneering, a melodic, bass-driven strain of house music that would soon get a name of its own.

Bresso is widely credited as the DJ who coined the term “future house” to describe his sound, and he spent 2015 through 2017 defining it record by record, according to his Wikipedia page. He launched his own independent label, Confession, in 2015, the same year he became a founding member of Pardon My French, a collective he formed with DJ Snake, Malaa and Mercer, four Paris-area producers who, in DJ Snake’s words, had known each other “since we were 15 years old” and wanted to “promote French electronic music around the world,” as described on the collective’s own Wikipedia page. Signature Confession-era singles followed in quick succession: “Siaw” in August 2016, the Malaa collaboration “Prophecy” that September, and the genre-defining “Adieu” in February 2017, followed by the “Revelations EP” that August.

Bresso’s biggest recognition beyond dance music arrived through pop production work. He first produced for Lady Gaga on “Applause” from her 2013 album “ARTPOP,” and years later he co-produced four tracks on her 2020 album “Chromatica,” including lead single “Stupid Love” and the Ariana Grande duet “Rain On Me,” a collaboration confirmed directly by Tchami in a Grammy.com interview. “Chromatica” went on to earn a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2021, putting his production work on a Grammy-nominated release. That same interview covers his own debut studio album, “Year Zero,” released October 23, 2020, on Confession, a 16-track record featuring Gunna, HANA, Daecolm, Zhu and Chace, and a BroadwayWorld report on the album’s release put his career streaming total at more than 475 million plays across platforms at that point. He also peaked at number 62 on the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll in 2015.

Tchami has built a decade-plus festival resume that includes Coachella in 2016 and 2022, mainstage sets at Ultra Music Festival in 2017, 2019 and 2023, a 2019 Tomorrowland appearance, and dates at Lollapalooza, EDC Mexico and CRSSD Festival, per his Wikipedia biography. He is known as much for a distinctive stage persona as for his music, performing behind the decks in a priest’s clerical collar with altar and stained-glass-style visuals, a look he has described as central to his own sense of spirituality on stage. He has also headlined his own branded tours, including the “No Redemption Tour” with Malaa in late 2017 and the “Confession Tour” across North America in 2018, extending his live footprint well beyond guest festival slots.

No major consumer beverage, apparel or paid touring-equipment sponsorship is documented in mainstream music press for Bresso, which sets him apart from some touring peers who carry those kinds of cash contracts. His clearest brand relationship is a gear partnership rather than a disclosed cash endorsement: high-end headphone maker Audeze features him as an artist partner, with Tchami saying its LCD-5 headphones “unlocked a new level” in his critical listening and helped him make better mixing decisions, according to Audeze’s own artist page. He is also known to perform on Pioneer DJ’s CDJ-2000NXS2 and DJM-900NXS2 club equipment, though no formal sponsorship arrangement with that brand is documented.

Confession, the label Bresso founded in 2015, has become his primary business platform, releasing his own catalog and signing outside talent; Malaa’s own Wikipedia page confirms he “is signed to Tchami’s label Confession,” which has released much of Malaa’s discography including compilation projects. Beyond the label, the Pardon My French collective he co-founded turned into a commercial brand of its own: the group launched a clothing line in 2016 with pop-up shops in Paris, then partnered with Levi’s on a collaboration in 2018, according to the collective’s Wikipedia entry. On the touring-business side, industry listings show Tchami holding a 2026 club residency at Daylight Beach Club in Las Vegas, a dayclub booking that functions as a standing revenue arrangement rather than a one-off show, according to Electronic Vegas’ resident DJ list.

No mainstream real-estate press or publicly reported purchase price exists for a personal home belonging to Bresso. His most substantial verifiable asset tied to a physical venue is his standing 2026 club residency at Daylight Beach Club in Las Vegas, a recurring dayclub booking rather than a real-estate holding, listed on Electronic Vegas’ Las Vegas resident DJ directory. Beyond that booking, his most substantial assets are business and intellectual property rather than real estate: his founder’s ownership of Confession Records, an independent label he has run for a decade with a signed roster that includes Malaa, and his publishing and production catalog, which spans his own UK Gold-certified “Promesses” and his production credits on Lady Gaga’s Grammy-nominated “Chromatica.”