As a creative it appears that music and fashion are your passions, explain how you were able to merge both successfully.
I think all forms of creativity encompass each other. Fashion is an expression of art such as music. Self-expression through music and art is the perfect representation of fashion. The current state of music revolves so tightly around fashion and vice versa. They both correlate together in expressing a mood or a feeling that attracts its core followers any movement, whether it be a trend or sound they all syncopate together.
DJing is not only a skill, but also an art. Describe your approach to ensure that the crowd is engaged in the music when you’re spinning.
I think DJ gives you the opportunity to educate with new sounds in a setting that creates a memory. Within an education, it can be familiar sounds that also stir up emotional responses in the listeners, the opportunity to play sets and give people a soundtrack for the night is somewhat of a privilege. Those moments when you are able to lose yourself in tracks and control a room are those that are cherished.
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The overlapping of fashion and music has always been a thing, especially on the runway. Which genre of music inspires your creativity?
There are so many inspirations and music genres. Jazz inspires hip-hop. While disco inspired house music, and all forms of dance music. There is even blues that push the boundaries of rock music. There are a lot of genres that I’ve floated through whether it was the amazing improvisation of John Coltrane, to the explosiveness of early punk legends Bad Brains from D.C., to early electronic. All these forms help shape the soundtrack of inspiration for my sound palette.