Derrick May

American DJ and techno record producer

Person human Q923104

Facts

17 properties

Instance of: human
Sex or gender: male^[9]
Date of birth: April 6, 1963
Place of birth: Detroit
Country of citizenship: United States^[6]
Occupation: club DJ, disc jockey, record producer
Educated at: Belleville High School^[7]
Genre: techno^[10]
Official website: www.transmatrecords.com^[14]
Languages spoken, written or signed: English^[15]
Family name: May^[12]
Given name: Derrick^[13]
Member of: Belleville Three^[8]
P14750: 3295-BF7A-2C26-2105-8D0E^[21]
Record label: Transmat^[11]
Social media followers: 58k (58k–65k, n=4)^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]
Start of work period: 1986^[16]

🏷️ Also known as

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🔖 Identifiers · 37

ISNI: 0000000114507062
VIAF cluster ID: 85693860
Library of Congress authority ID: no00010022
GND ID: 134708474
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Derrick May.jpg ↗
AllMusic artist ID: mn0000205313
BBC Things ID: 3590878b-2aa3-4c46-92f6-b20b44f0a73b
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 14015272j
Carnegie Hall agent ID: 129448
DDB person (GND) ID: 134708474
Deezer artist ID: 394099
Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID: 134708474

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Discogs artist ID: 650
Europeana entity: agent/base/149452
Facebook username: derrick.may, derrickmayday
Freebase ID: /m/02q584
IMDb ID: nm0561923
IdRef ID: 166588733
Kinobox person ID: 313999
Last.fm ID: Derrick+May
MusicBrainz artist ID: 371c8525-8111-4497-83ba-1ead9d7ed148, 412a26ba-33c3-4276-aa52-828f8a604bd8
Muziekweb performer ID: M00000062292
Myspace ID: derrickmay
NL CR AUT ID: xx0060931
NME artist ID: derrick-may
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987014390981805171
Oxford Reference overview ID: 20110803100142638
Pitchfork artist ID: 24096-derrick-may
Rate Your Music artist ID: derrick_may
Resident Advisor artist ID: derrickmay
Songkick artist ID: 101512
SoundCloud ID: fxxp/sets/derrick-may-1/, derrick-may
TMDB person ID: 1135186
Tumblr username: dmayday
WorldCat Entities ID: E39PBJqk9wBc3y6JrCqc9kmKh3
X (Twitter) username: derrickmayday
Yale LUX ID: person/7ed6f0cf-c5b5-4d2d-b126-42baa701c048

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🔗 Connections

Occupation 2

disc jockey, record producer

Country of citizenship 1

United States

Family name 1

May

Genre 1

techno

Instance of 1

human

Languages spoken, written or signed 1

English

Place of birth 1

Detroit

Record label 1

Transmat

Sex or gender 1

male

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Summary

Derrick May was born on April 6, 1963^[1], in Detroit^[2]. He has worked as a club DJ^[3], disc jockey^[4], and record producer^[5].

FAQs

Where was Derrick May born?

Derrick May's place of birth was Detroit^[2].

What did Derrick May do for work?

Derrick May worked as a club DJ^[3], disc jockey^[4], and record producer^[5].

Where did Derrick May go to school?

Derrick May was educated at Belleville High School^[7].

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ Derrick May — place of birth (P19): Detroit. Integrated Authority File. Retrieved 2014-12-17. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Derrick May — sex or gender (P21): male. Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 2018-11-04. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Derrick May — country of citizenship (P27): United States. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Derrick May — educated at (P69): Belleville High School. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Derrick May — occupation (P106): club DJ. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Derrick May — occupation (P106): disc jockey. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Derrick May — occupation (P106): record producer. Retrieved 2019-05-22. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Derrick May — genre (P136): techno. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Derrick May — record label (P264): Transmat. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Derrick May — member of (P463): Belleville Three. wikidata.org.
[1] ↑ Derrick May — date of birth (P569): April 6, 1963. Integrated Authority File. Retrieved 2014-05-04. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Derrick May — family name (P734): May. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Derrick May — given name (P735): Derrick. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Derrick May — official website (P856): http://www.transmatrecords.com. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Derrick May — languages spoken, written or signed (P1412): English. IdRef. Retrieved 2020-05-11. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Derrick May — start of work period (P2031): 1986. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Derrick May — social media followers (P8687): 63,401. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Derrick May — social media followers (P8687): 64,816. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Derrick May — social media followers (P8687): 60,184. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Derrick May — social media followers (P8687): 58,449. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Derrick May — P14750 (P14750): 3295-BF7A-2C26-2105-8D0E. wikidata.org.

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10w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗

P14750 → 3295-BF7A-2C26-2105-8D0E

"/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 3295-BF7A-2C26-2105-8D0E, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269215|batch #269215]]"
16w ago · Geagea · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗

National Library of Israel J9U ID → 987014390981805171

"/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987014390981805171, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1783595065105; Based on LC id in the National Library of Israel"
24w ago · DontCallMeLateForDinner · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Member of → Belleville Three

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Member of: Belleville Three"
26w ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗

NME artist ID → derrick-may

Genre → —

Record label → Transmat

Social media followers → {'amount': '+63401'}, {'amount': '+64816'}, {'amount': '+60184'} +1

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"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ NME artist ID: derrick-may, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/214806584|derrick may (#214806584)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7190|NME artist]] #mi"

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