[8] Gonzales won a Grammy award for his work on Daft Punk's 2013 studio album Random Access Memories.

[9] Jason Charles Beck is the son of Ashkenazi Jews who were forced to flee from Hungary during World War II.

In the 1990s, he began a pop career as the leader of the alternative rock band Son, with Dominic Salole and Dave Szigeti.

Their first release, the Prince/Elvis Costello-flavored LP Thriller, was moderately successful, spawning one single that received heavy radio airplay ("Pick up the Phone") and leading to several opening gigs for the Barenaked Ladies.

Son's second release, Wolfstein, was recorded at a fully equipped studio in LA with the assistance of his brother Christophe.

Nominally a concept album about a man who starts turning into a wolf after hitting one with his car, it features a darker, more complex sensibility than its predecessor.

Finding dealing with the expectations of the Canadian music industry difficult,[11] Gonzales moved to Berlin in 1999, despite speaking no German.

[18][19] In the meantime, Gonzales continued to develop as a producer and songwriter for other artists, collaborating on singles and albums with Peaches, singer Jane Birkin and indie rocker Leslie Feist.

While maintaining a typically eclectic mix of styles, Soft Power was recorded as a pop album, with a sound reminiscent of the Bee Gees and Billy Joel.

[23][24] Gonzales' album Ivory Tower (produced by Boys Noize) appeared on the !Earshot National Top 50 Chart in 2010.

In 2014, Chilly Gonzales won an Album of the Year Grammy Award for his work on Daft Punk's Random Access Memories.

Seven musicians from around the world joined him to study at "The Gonzervatory", an eight-day all-expenses-paid residential music performance workshop in Paris.