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DJ Charmain

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Hi my name is DJ charmain i have been DJing for 13 years and I love it.Despite the fact it has been a struggle for a female disc jockey to get noticed DJ Charmain has not been put off, with talent tunes aplenty she is determined to shine through. These days she plays more of an eclectic mix than when she first started djing. At the beginning of DJ Charmain's career she played a funky, jazzy style of music and though she still plays jazz/funk/soul and newbeats she also plays alot of disco and house. Lets just say she is always open to new sounds and she doesn't want to get stuck in a rut playing one style of music. DJ Charmain enjoys playing in clubs/bar venues because she gets to play all the different types of music she has collected over the years. DJ Charmain has played in Turnmills, The Albany, The Astoria, Warldorf Hotel, Crazy Larry's, The Rhythmic Chapel Market, The Jazz Cafe, The Whitehouse, The Marketplace Bar, The Hive and Lost Society.
In the past she has also enjoyed working behind the scenes in the music business, promoting records, clubs and music books. In the future DJ Charmain would like move on in working in radio and playing abroad.
INTERVIEW WITH DJ CHARMAIN BY LEE HARPIN
'I suppose it is not sexy really standing behind two decks playing records, most women are more concerned deciding what to wear to the club, there still aren't enough female DJ's out there.' DJ Charmain is well placed to offer a perspective on the male biased within DJ culture.
Initially, DJ Charmain was working under the alias of Black Widow. She began making a significant impact on London's jazz and hip hop scenes, two sections of club land that have long resembled fraternities. But she is the first to dispel any suggestions of novelty value. If the odd gimmick and a pretty face can work wonders for a DJ on the house scene spin a duff record at the kind of gig she plays and all credibility completely evaporates. As an avid record collector for as long as she can remember purchasing anything from Earth Wind and Fire, Last Poets and Leroy Burgess to the most obscure jazz Charmains first taste of life behind the turntables came through her continuing nights at Fungus Mungus, the beatnik Battersea bar. 'I was inspired by what I used to hear on pirate radio.' She steadily gained further DJ bookings playing beside the likes of Wilber Wilberforce and Jasper The Vinyl Junkie at Crazy Larry's on the London's King Road and many other gigs followed.
DJ Charmain had the privilege to play many gigs at the Jazz cafe and other well known venues including such artists as Roy Ayers, John Licien, Pharoah Sanders, Fish Belly Black, Jessica Lauren, Byron Wallen and Ohio Players.
Bizarrely one day Charmain found herself on a Michiko Koshino t-shirt, a mysterious Japanese photographer snapping away at a warehouse party she played at, the photographer provided no clues to the eventual destination of his pictures. 'The first I knew if it was when two friends so the Michiko spring collection. Even though I am not well known I suppose I am the first DJ to appear on a catwalk t-shirt.'Watch out for DJ Charmains campus radio comming soon and some of her djing!

To book DJ CHARMAIN please contact Funky Feet PR
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My Interests

DJing cooking films growing plants and making people happy. I have extensive knowledge in herbal medicine. I also write poetry.DJ Charmain is in production working on her Album (10 Beats Later).

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet people that are in the know of good music and have kind hearts.

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Music:

80s soul,70s disco,Bob Marley,2 tone,jazz any kind,Everything on the UK record lable (Urban Myth)I love A Tribe Called Quest,Jhon Lennon,Mos Def and much more.
YOU CAN CHECK OUT MY LATEST MIXES NEW AND OLD! GO TO DJ_Charmain_mixes
TO HEAR THE (DPPF) RADIO SHOW WITH DJ CHARMAIN INTERVIEWING DJ FELIX DICKINSON CLICK HEAR!a

Movies:

OLD ONES NEW ONES,LIFE CHANGEING ONES!

Television:

NO TIME!

Books:

The Lion,the Which and the Wardrobe,Long Distance Life,The Alchemist,Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HA,Isabel Allende,Delta of Venus,Irvine Welsh,Laura Esquivel, and lots more.

Heroes:

PEOPLE WITH GOOD MORALS......................!..

My Blog

A GOOD FRIEND!

Have you ever had a good friend that you could not find fault with? I had one!!!! this girl always had time for me!!!!! helpful in many ways, nothing was too much trouble for my friend Sarah bail.This...
Posted by charmain on Wed, 14 May 2008 06:46:00 PST

DJ CHARMAIN PLAYING OUT!

DJ CHARMAIN WILL BE PLAYING AT LOST SOCIETY THURSDAY THE 6TH OF DECEMBER 9PM TILL 1AM ,697 WANDSWORTH ROAD LONDON SW8 3JF.COME ON DOWN AND BOOGIE!
Posted by charmain on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:51:00 PST

INTEGRITY!

TO BE TRUE TO YOUR SELF,IT'S THE BEST THING EVER! SO KNOW THAT!
Posted by charmain on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:49:00 PST

(DPPF) DISCO IN THE PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE!

THE MAN ..............THE LEGEND..................THE DJ AND MUSIC PRODUCER!Do you think you know enough about U.K. underground without knowing Felix Dickinson? Click on my page where my music in...
Posted by charmain on Thu, 31 May 2007 11:16:00 PST

THE DPPF RADIO SHOW!

If you want to be interviewed on Resonance FM, please message me! Only disco lovers please.
Posted by charmain on Sun, 20 May 2007 02:52:00 PST

DJ CHARMAIN (DISCO AND THEN SOME) MIX 1

CHECK OUT MY LATEST MIX! NOW THEN! DJ CHARMAIN (DISCO AND THEN SOME) MIX OF 3 CHECK OUT MY LATEST MIXES. http://www.archive.org/details/DJ_Charmain_mixes ...
Posted by charmain on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:32:00 PST

SOME PEOPLE!

SUNY DAY'S ARE THE BEST! SOME PEOPLE.....................NEVER LET UP,.......BUT I AM STRONG,YOU CANT BEAT ME.............................. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE...........................................
Posted by charmain on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:41:00 PST

GOOD LOVE IS HARD TO FIND!

I LOVE LOVE THERE IS NOTHING BETTER 2006 WAS THE BEST SO FAR FOR ME I FOUND IT!
Posted by charmain on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:10:00 PST