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Agile (producer)

Ajene Griffith, better known as DJ Agile, is a Canadian hip-hop producer and DJ from Toronto, Ontario. He is a member of the groups BrassMunk and Big Black Lincoln.

Biography

Agile began rapping in high school and decided to pursue music more seriously after winning several talent shows, earning him recognition across Toronto. He later co-founded JLJ Productions, a DJ crew he formed with his friends.

By the end of high school, Agile has been DJing independently and with his crew, performing for college and commercial radio stations throughout Toronto. He developed an interest in music production during this period and has since done production work for numerous artists, including Nas, Kardinal Offishall, Melanie Fiona, Dwele, Jully Black, Glenn Lewis, Ivana Santilli, and Frank n Dank.

In 2009, Agile released a mixtape Toronto Love Jay dedicated to the late producer J Dilla, which won Mixtape of the Year at the 2009 Stylus DJ Awards. Since then, Agile has obtained many prominent DJing gigs, including DJing for the Toronto Maple Leafs' "Rivalry Series" two years in a row, opening for Drake's 2022 OVO Fest "Canadian AllStars", producing the music for season three (2019) and season four (2020) of Netflix's Hip Hop Evolution, and representing Canada in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Program, where Vietnamese partygoers experienced Canadian-inspired nightlife.

Between April 2010 and December 2015, Agile served as the Dean For Recording Arts at the Toronto Chapter of The Remix Project. Agile has served as a board member of the SOCAN Foundation since 2009, chaired the Pop Music Committees, and has sat on the Jazz Festival Advisory Committee since January 2017.

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