

As a concert venue, the apartment became known as The Pickle Patch. In college, he produced do-it-yourself records and ran underground concerts out of his Biko room in the Santa Barbara Student Housing Cooperative, which was located in Isla Vista, a section of residential land adjacent to UCSB. degrees, one in feminist studies and the other in sociology. Īoki attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with two B.A.

His half-sister is model and actress Devon Aoki. He has two older siblings, sister Kana (who is sometimes called by her middle name "Grace"), and brother Kevin (owner of Doraku Sushi restaurant).

His father was a former wrestler who also founded the restaurant chain Benihana. He is of Japanese descent, the third child of Rocky Aoki and Chizuru Kobayashi. He graduated from Newport Harbor High School in 1995, where he was a player on the varsity badminton team.

Steven Hiroyuki Aoki ( / eɪ ˈ oʊ k i/ Japanese: スティーヴン・ヒロユキ・アオキ) (born November 30, 1977) is an American DJ, record producer, music programmer, record executive, and heir to his father Rocky Aoki's fortune from the Benihana restaurant franchise.
