Music & lyrics, no more! Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon ends DJ gigs after bank board shows concern at 'distraction'
economictimes.indiatimes.comsymphony is over! For David Solomon, CEO by day and DJ by night, the music has stopped, literally.
Solomon, the Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs, doubled up as a high-profile party DJ in his time away from the boardroom. But that musical soiree is now over for this corner-office occupant after the bank's board showed concerns at the adverse attention that his non-work stint was drawing.
Solomon, who has also performed at the famous Lollapalooza festival, will now no longer be seen spinning tracks and records at swish events.
«David decided to stop publicly DJing more than a year ago because of the outside attention to it,» Goldman Sachs spokesman Tony Fratto was quoted as saying to CNN.
Solomon, who used the alias DJ D-Sol for his musical avatar, began chasing his hobby at festivals and in night clubs a few years ago. In a 2017 podcast, he had said that he had «kind of stumbled into it as a hobby, and now I just do it for fun,» CNN further reported.
Solomon has been away from the public eye after all the adverse attention his DJing had garnered.
«Music was not a distraction from David’s work. The media attention became a distraction,» Fratto told CNN.
The 61-year-old Solomon grabbed headlines when he was seen in a casual avatar spinning music at high-profile events including an Amazon gig in 2019 and a Sports Illustrated Super Bowl party last year. Last year, he also showed up at Chicago’s Lollapalooza music festival alongside acts like Metallica, Dua Lipa, Doja Cat and Green Day.
Solomon was appointed the CEO of Goldman Sachs in October 2018.
