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Abu Dhabi,
Mexico City, Tokyo
Zedd, 30 , has worked with multiple Billboard-topping pop artists—Katy Perry,
Shawn Mendes, Alessia Cara, and Selena Gomez, to name a few—but his origi-
nal muses may have been closer to home and a little mellower: He grew up in
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