Updated: August 27, 2026
Birth Name: Christopher Lake
Date of Birth: 8 August 1982
Age: 43
Origin: Norwich, England
Gender: Male
Nationality: English
Wife: Gita Bukrabova
Occupation: DJ, record producer, remixer, label owner
Genres: House, tech house, progressive house
Biography & Career:
Chris Lake is an English DJ, producer and label owner who has spent two decades shaping the sound of house music on both sides of the Atlantic. Born in Norwich and now based in Los Angeles, he picked up keyboard, organ and saxophone as a child, then discovered progressive house at 14 and bought a synthesizer that redirected everything that followed. The real name is simply Christopher Lake, so the stage name needed no invention at all. At 43, his age puts him among the veterans of the scene, although the output of the past few years has been the busiest of the whole career.
The first proper wave of attention came from bootleg remixes issued in 2002 under a pseudonym, which reached exactly the right ears in progressive house circles. A breakthrough single in 2006 with vocalist Laura V pushed the producer onto radio worldwide, and the follow-up a year later went to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay chart, the start of four consecutive top ten records on the US dance listing. The music genre most closely tied to him today is tech house, though the wider EDM world claims him just as readily, and the discography runs from vocal-led crossover releases to stripped-back club tools, alongside remix work for names including Sia, Kylie Minogue and Lady Gaga.
Behind the scenes, the label side matters as much as the records. Rising Music and Rising Trax came first, and Black Book Records, launched in 2017, has become one of the more dependable homes for tech house. Two duo projects also run in parallel: Anti Up with Chris Lorenzo, and Under Construction with Fisher. The Grammy connection reaches back to 2012, when contributions to a Deadmau5 album earned a first nomination, and a second arrived for the 2026 ceremony in the remixed recording category, for a reworking of a Chemical Brothers classic put together to mark its twentieth anniversary. That nod landed in the same year as a full-length that reached number 13 on Billboard's electronic album chart and topped the dance album chart on Apple Music.
By ethnicity white British and by nationality English, the artist keeps his private life reasonably quiet. His wife, Gita Bukrabova, is a singer and songwriter originally from Riga, Latvia, who records as Gita Lake and has featured as a vocalist on several of his releases. Stage work fills most of the calendar, with well over a hundred shows in a typical year. A tour schedule built around large festival stages, standalone city shows and Las Vegas club and pool dates keeps him moving through North America, Europe and Australia, and new events tend to be announced season by season rather than as one long routed run. Which of the best songs make any given setlist shifts constantly, since the newest material always shares space with tracks people have been shouting for since 2006.
Chris Lake Albums:
Crazy
Cross the Line
Chemistry
Chris Lake Best Songs:
Changes
Carry Me Away
Only One
If You Knew
Chest
Boneless
Turn Off The Lights
Operator (Ring Ring)
I Said
Beggin
