DJ Bloo

Syamsul Ibrahim (born June 18, 2001), also known by the stage name DJ Bloo, is a Singaporean-Bornean EDM producer and rapper of Malay descent based in Jesselton, Sabah, best known for playing the fictional character Blake Olsen. Syamsul makes music as well as videos on YouTube under the Blake alias. A distinguishing feature is his blue hoodie, featuring the face of the character Bloo from the Cartoon Network animated series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, as well as his blue dyed hair and glowing contact lenses.

Biography
Syamsul was born to Malay parents residing in Novena. He grew up watching Cartoon Network, but later shifted interests towards Nickelodeon with time. Some of his favorite cartoons included The Powerpuff Girls, Danny Phantom, The Fairly OddParents and most notably Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. He reportedly liked one of the show's characters, Bloo, which he later adapted into his stage persona before transforming it into a fictional character.

In 2019, he moved to Borneo and settled in the city of Jesselton, but was separated from his parents due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They reunited temporarily in June 2021. He also performed in the show segment of the 2022 National Day Parade, and one of his songs, Imaginary Home, was played in the first act.

Character lore
Syamsul plays the alter-ego Blake Olsen, a 21-year-old who, after coming in contact with a mysterious blue liquid on his 10th birthday, gained blue dyed hair and started having a personality similar to Bloo from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, as well as a passion for making music. Blake then realized he had the ability to create worlds, and created his own in the process, created his own imaginary world based on his childhood memories as well as building it on positivity and endless creativity.

Syamsul and Bornean animator Bobby Ferreira, along with Canadian animation studio Guru Studio and the Patagonian RPL Animation, created an animation series based on the mythos of Syamsul's character. Titled DJ Bloo and Friends, the series is a loose crossover, featuring characters from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Danny Phantom and other series and video games Syamsul watched and played most during his childhood as inhabitants of the lead character's dream world. The series premiered on June 18, 2021 to coincide with Syamsul's 20th birthday.

Trivia

 * His mother is Bugis and his father is Banjar by ethnicity.
 * He came out as autistic in 2020.
 * Despite emerging as Muslim, he has refused to add any religious connotations to his series.
 * He completed his two years of compulsory national service in June 2019, three months before moving to Borneo.