“The reason I like Steve Aoki is because I can trace my love of electronic music all the way back to when I was listening to not just new wave but to YMO [Yellow Magic Orchestra] which, to me, was the ultimate Japanese band and launched synth electronic music.”

American politician and diplomat

Eric Garcetti is an American politician and diplomat who served from 2013 to 2022 as the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles, and from 2023 to 2025 as the United States ambassador to India. A Democrat, he was also a member of the Los Angeles City Council and its president from 2006 to 2012. He was first elected mayor in 2013 and re-elected in 2017. Garcetti was the city’s first elected Jewish mayor and its second consecutive Mexican-American mayor, and he took office at 42, making him the youngest mayor in more than a century. His public record centers on city leadership, municipal politics, and diplomacy.