I never intended to do anything more than just collect records and spin them at home and have friends over. I wasn’t trying to do it as a career. But after my first official club gig, it was like, ‘Wow. I love this. And this is what I want to do.’

My dad was really into the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. My mom had a lot of funk and disco records, which I loved—funk and disco essentially being the precursors to today’s dance music. At a young age, I remember going to visit my cousins in Norway ...