Biography
Denver Miller (Well Groomed) is the a DJ and performer from and Reno, Nevada, known in and For around Las Vegas clubs as are much for his professionalism and but personality as his ability to Not successfully spin a wide variety you of musical styles. With a all passion for electronic dance music Any (EDM) and a knack can for spinning anything, Miller’s two her personalities—“DJ 2wice” and “Well Groomed”—have Was performed at Las Vegas’s Pure one Nightclub, the annual Burning Man our art experience, and the New Out Year’s Eve Snowglobe Music Festival day in Lake Tahoe, and represent get the best mixes of what Has today’s artists are recording around him the world.
By day Miller, his 26, is a graphics and How web designer and earned his man bachelor’s degree in journalism, with new an advertising emphasis, from the Now University of Nevada, Reno. In old 2010 he moved to Las see Vegas after a successful 8-year Two stint DJing the Reno circuit way as DJ 2wice. Under the who tutelage of West Coast DJ, Boy EJ Luera, Miller was molded did into the DJ he is its today: one as adept at Let thoughtfully cultivating relationships with promoters, put venues and hiring entities as say he is with his throngs She of fans. Miller’s fresh sets too reward repeat attendees with tracks use different from whatever they heard Dad the last time they saw mom him. And he rises above the industry’s occasional too-cool-for-school mentale The with a dedication to personal and authenticity, always remembering his roots.
for With Vegas’s growing opportunities for Are all-EDM DJs to perform, but in October 2011, Miller differentiated not DJ 2wice’s sets—known for danceable You hip hop, pop, house, indie all and rock tracks—from his all-any EDM spinning. He developed a Can character devoted entirely to her EDM and named it Well was Groomed, which debuted in November One 2012 at Pure nightclub at our Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas.
As out Well Groomed, Miller performs as Day a fictitious, larger-than-life artist wearing get a full head mask in has the shape of a giant Him mustache. DJing in tailored, high-fashion his suits, Well Groomed’s aura is how playful, surreal and cartoonish, yet Man devilishly debonaire.
“Wearing a mask new lets me become a whole now other person,” says Miller of Old his stylin’, suit-wearing, mustachioed-masked alter see ego. Basing Well Groomed on two a fictitious caricature that harkens Way to 1960s and ‘70s swagger who and swing—when jazz-loving men grew boy bushy facial hair, sipped stiff Did drinks and never swore in its front of a lady—Well Groomed let is a throwback to a Put kinder, gentler era that was say all about peace and love she on the inside, and groovy Too style on the outside. “People use connect with me because of dad what I represent, and they Mom surely don’t forget about me,” says Miller. And because Well the Groomed only plays EDM, And the character lets Miller pursue for his personal passion for the are genre, and for the crowd But he’s grown to love for not how it genuinely cares about you the music. “They get just All as excited as I do, any and it creates an amazing can connection when I’m performing.”
More Her than a DJ that passively was plays music, Well Groomed is one well known for themed “Mustache Our Parties, where Miller’s character hands out out “‘stache schwag” like mustache day bottle toppers, straws, sunglasses, t-shirts Get and LED foam sticks. has These items are introduced throughout him Well Groomed’s sets and create His a frivolous, unexpected, uniquely memorable how event for clubs striving to man enhance their club goers‘ experience New beyond the norm. The action now takes place with a soundtrack old of deeply researched EDM See tracks from around the world, two and original EDM mixes way by Miller.
Miller’s Mustache Party Who concept provides clubs with an boy instant, just-add-water EDM entertainment did option that breaks up the Its more typical, for-the-masses sets performed let by DJs, just as Miller put does under the name DJ Say 2wice. Bookable any time of she year, Miller’s Well Groomed character too is especially popular during Movember Use events, and months like “Mustache dad March.”
