AVELLO Recruits Jordin Sparks for Festival Anthem “We Own the Night”
AVELLO has teamed up with American Idol winner Jordin Sparks on "We Own the Night," marking her first official dance music release.
AVELLO just pulled off one of the more unexpected features of the summer: “We Own the Night” pairs him with Jordin Sparks, and it's the first official dance music release of her career.
Yes, that Jordin Sparks — the one who won American Idol in 2007 and has been a fixture of pop radio since. She's had dance remixes over the years, but according to the announcement this is her first proper dance release, and she went straight for the festival main stage rather than easing in with something restrained.
The track came together the way most good ones do — AVELLO heard the vocals and immediately knew. “The second I heard them, I knew there was something special there,” he said. “I immediately started building around the vocal and leaned into making it feel like a big festival anthem.” Mission accomplished, honestly. It's built for the moment when the sun's going down and everyone's phone comes out.
He'd already road-tested it, debuting the track live at WAKAAN ROCKS back in April before the July release. Sparks later brought a remix of it out at Lollapalooza, which is a decent indicator that she's taking the dance thing seriously rather than treating it as a one-off experiment.
For AVELLO, this caps a big year. He took home two 2026 EDMAs — Best New Artist and Breakout Remixer of the Year — and landed on EDM.com's Class of 2026. We've had an eye on him for a while (we posted a remix of his “Only You” with Madeline Austin back in early 2023) and included him on our rising artists to watch in 2026 list in March.
The “breakout remixer” award is the tell, by the way. AVELLO built a reputation on knowing exactly what to do with someone else's vocal, and “We Own the Night” is that skill applied to an original: find a singer who can actually carry a chorus, then get out of the way until the drop. It's not reinventing anything. It doesn't need to.
Whether this opens a lane for more pop vocalists to make real dance records or stays a one-off, it's a smart look for both of them.
