Special Berriez is an interdisciplinary artist, producer, DJ, and musical director who is a native Washingtonian. Berriez's central goals as an artist, visionary, and director are to preserve historical Black arts and culture while creating modern works that honor that past as we globally build bridges towards the future. Berriez started his artistic career as a journalist and essayist, covering the culture and news of D.C. and began a transition into lyrics, music and event production in 2013. Over the past 11 years Berriez has established a respectable music career, self-publishing independent records, a chapbook, and producing artist and producer-centered events along the way. Currently, Berriez’s prominent projects include a monthly music producer showcase called Joantz based at HR Records in D.C., a monthly residency at the Crate Convention at the Anacostia Arts Center, and a radio show called Ill Street Grooves on 89.3FM WPFW airing on the first Saturday of each month.

Thinker, writer, doer. I sing, play piano, write songs and instrumental compositions, produce projects big and small, maintain a blog at Substack called PLAY IT BY EAR, and generally externalize my interior moods (cynical but loving, brooding but danceable) for anybody who can relate. INNOCENT MONSTER is a collection of 10 original art-rock songs I released in spring 2021.

A swedish producer of deep/organic house with multiple releases on Cafe de Anatolia 

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