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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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