diff --git a/spotipy/client.py b/spotipy/client.py
index 0d13fa0..4956dfb 100644
--- a/spotipy/client.py
+++ b/spotipy/client.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class Spotify(object):
     max_get_retries = 10
 
     def __init__(self, auth=None, requests_session=True,
-                 client_credentials_manager=None, requests_timeout=None):
+        client_credentials_manager=None, proxies=None, requests_timeout=None):
         '''
         Create a Spotify API object.
 
@@ -63,12 +63,15 @@ class Spotify(object):
             for performance reasons (connection pooling).
         :param client_credentials_manager:
             SpotifyClientCredentials object
+        :param proxies:
+            Definition of proxies (optional)
         :param requests_timeout:
             Tell Requests to stop waiting for a response after a given number of seconds
         '''
         self.prefix = 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/'
         self._auth = auth
         self.client_credentials_manager = client_credentials_manager
+        self.proxies = proxies
         self.requests_timeout = requests_timeout
 
         if isinstance(requests_session, requests.Session):
@@ -102,7 +105,7 @@ class Spotify(object):
 
         if self.trace_out:
             print(url)
-        r = self._session.request(method, url, headers=headers, **args)
+        r = self._session.request(method, url, headers=headers, proxies=self.proxies, **args)
 
         if self.trace:  # pragma: no cover
             print()
diff --git a/spotipy/oauth2.py b/spotipy/oauth2.py
index f21a669..7303ff0 100644
--- a/spotipy/oauth2.py
+++ b/spotipy/oauth2.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class SpotifyOauthError(Exception):
 class SpotifyClientCredentials(object):
     OAUTH_TOKEN_URL = 'https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token'
 
-    def __init__(self, client_id=None, client_secret=None):
+    def __init__(self, client_id=None, client_secret=None, proxies=None):
         """
         You can either provid a client_id and client_secret to the
         constructor or set SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID and SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ class SpotifyClientCredentials(object):
         self.client_id = client_id
         self.client_secret = client_secret
         self.token_info = None
+        self.proxies = proxies
 
     def get_access_token(self):
         """
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ class SpotifyClientCredentials(object):
             headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % auth_header}
 
         response = requests.post(self.OAUTH_TOKEN_URL, data=payload,
-            headers=headers, verify=True)
+            headers=headers, verify=True, proxies=self.proxies)
         if response.status_code is not 200:
             raise SpotifyOauthError(response.reason)
         token_info = response.json()
@@ -210,7 +211,7 @@ class SpotifyOAuth(object):
             headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % auth_header}
 
         response = requests.post(self.OAUTH_TOKEN_URL, data=payload,
-            headers=headers, verify=True)
+            headers=headers, verify=True, proxies=self.proxies)
         if response.status_code is not 200:
             raise SpotifyOauthError(response.reason)
         token_info = response.json()
@@ -238,7 +239,7 @@ class SpotifyOAuth(object):
             headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % auth_header}
 
         response = requests.post(self.OAUTH_TOKEN_URL, data=payload,
-            headers=headers)
+            headers=headers, proxies=self.proxies)
         if response.status_code != 200:
             if False:  # debugging code
                 print('headers', headers)