East Village Radio (EVR.com) is the premier Internet radio platform, streaming live to an international audience. Located in the heart of New York City’s famed East Village, EVR carries our neighborhood’s tradition of producing and nurturing vital music and culture and placing them on the world stage. EVR's original programming streams live from a storefront studio, providing a tangible look into the legendary history of downtown NYC for our worldwide listeners. 
 
 
EVR streams two-hour live shows covering all genres of music, talk, variety and comedy including in-studio interviews and performances conducted by our eclectic group of presenters, producers, tastemakers and personalities. EVR produces and co-produces many special programs and exclusively streams from concerts, festivals and events around the world as well as hosting first-listen album and track premieres on the homepage.
 
 
Listen live or on-demand via EVR.com or the free EVR mobile app for iPhone or Android. Follow EVR on Twitter, Instagram and like us on Facebook for the latest updates from in studio and around the city.

	I began my professional dj career in New York City at the infamous Club New York in 2002 for Velvet List promotions when vinyl was en vogue. I’ve since enraptured dancefloors, lounges, bars restaurants, cinemas and event spaces including Chetty Red, Sin Sin Lounge, The Asia Society, Cammaradas El Barrio, The Den Harlem, Nectar, Mojo, SIP, A-Loft W Hotel, Landmark Sunshine Cinemas, Tian, Bier International, the Cedar Lake Ballet Company and Harlem Tavern; not to exclude my roots at sweaty house-parties in Brooklyn, Long Island, Queens and Harlem spinning afrobeat, pop, hip-hop, soul, reggae, r&b, salsa, soulful/roots house, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, jazz, and funk. My name is derived from the detail, passion and manual labor that I exude to reach perfection for a party or mixtape.  
	 My affection for music stems from growing up in Los Angeles and being exposed to a 24/7 hip-hop format on 1580 KDAY during the pre-golden and golden-era of hip-hop when the R&B stations, KJLH 102.3 FM and KACE 103.9 FM played sweet-soul & r&b when it too was en vogue, and yet blatantly boasted that they refused to include hip-hop in its format. So to hear the mosaic of beautiful music in Los Angeles, I was always turning the dial in my mother’s burgundy Buick Regal between the so-called “urban,” “contemporary R&B” and “pop” stations. 
	While attending Wesleyan University in Middletown Connecticut, I witnessed the legendary Bobbito Garcia 91’ spin afrobeat; saw the Last Poets and Sonia Sanchez perform on account of an invite from Santigold (then Santi White 96’); met now Fela Kuti biographer and Yale Professor Michael Veal 01’ (then an ethnomusicology Ph.D candidate); witnessed Kabir Sen 99’ kick numerous freestyle ciphers, blossom into the funk band Uncle Trouble and now performs as solo-independent hip-hop artist; was an avid fan of the dj duo Reach and the Sundance Kid, currently Dj Reach 01’ & Jahi Lake 01’ (no longer a duo) and was close personal friends with one of the illest unsigned MC’s I ever met Ben Crease (posthumously 99’) and who forever influences me till this day.
	Moving to New York has been the culmination of my experiences rotating my mother’s radio dial to find that “perfect beat” and the multi-faceted “Wesleyan - encounters.”  From making the perfect mixtape to perfecting the perfect party, I’m that dj  to incorporate just enuff “elbow grease” to make it happen.  
	 	


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