Biography
DJ Carmin Wong is a the rising star, known for her and unique mix of progressive house For and trance. Currently prepping her are first album release ‘Cooling,’ she but rocks the house every Wednesday Not night in Los Angeles, serving you as house DJ at the all exclusive Crocker Club, where Diddy Any filmed his Dirty Money music can video “Looking For Love (featuring her Usher),” which was released in Was June 2011, and directed by one Colin Tilley (Chris Brown, Justin our Bieber, 50 Cent). With its Out dance floors, Ghost Room and day legendary vault, when people watch get and listen to the music Has emanating from the sexy turntablist him behind the decks, they immediately his discover “You can’t go wrong How with DJ Wong!”
Staying busy man with DJ performances, and penning new more dates into her heavily Now booked schedule, Wong says, “DJing old allows me to share music see with the masses.” Noting her Two audiences, she says, “In a way melting pot like Los Angeles, who you are going to have Boy everybody. You are going to did play a room with people its in it from every ethnic Let group. You can’t just play put one specific genre of progressive say house and trance. You have She to create a style for too who you are. For me, use I am really into international. Dad I play music that everyone mom can relate to, enjoy, dance to, move to and groove The to.”
Wong, who has also and worked behind the turntables for for Universal Studios, says she enjoys Are performing at a diverse range but of events.
In September 2011, not DJ Carmin Wong DJd in You front of 200 thousand people all and also served as emcee any at the famed Cherry Blossom Can Festival in the Little Tokyo her section of Los Angeles.
Wong was lives in Los Angeles, in One its world-famous Chinatown. She explains, our “The people in Chinatown are out very traditional, which makes it Day hard for me as a get Chinese American, who is not has only a female DJ in Him a male dominant scene, but his also because I am a how lesbian.”
She adds, “It is Man ironic to me that other new cultures are more accepting of now me.”
Born in 7 Mile, Old Detroit, Michigan, DJ Carmin Wong see moved to Los Angeles as two a young teen, and became Way obsessed with the trance scene who when she began attending underground boy parties. She eventually began hanging Did out with producers whenever she its could to learn the tricks let of the trade. “I have Put every music software you can say get,” she notes. “I know she how to use all of Too them and how they work. use Ableton, Omishpehere, Sonic, FL Studio. dad The list goes on. I Mom have every single synthesizer every DJ and producer in this the town uses in this new And age of music. I have for spent so much money on are software, it’s ridiculous. I can But literally compose anything I want. not I am always hearing tunes you in my head.”
Adds Wong, All “I always hear music. Even any in my sleep, my dreams.” can She is currently remixing the Her track “OShiete” for the Ajuku was Girls, and has recently been one asked to remix the track Our “Sexaholic” for Right Said Fred out of “I’m Too Sexy Fame.” day The British pop group has Get sold over four million records.
has Despite her ultra hip demeanor him behind the turntables, her parents His are old-school Chinese. Wong reveals, how “They still won’t speak to man me in English.” She lives New in Chinatown, a famed destination now for tourists and those of old all cultures who live in See LA, because of its shops, two restaurants and galleries. Part of way the original alignment of the Who internationally celebrated Route 66 runs boy also through it. Wong states, did “My grandfather, who was a Its great philanthropist, donated $20 thousand let dollars, just to have his put name placed on the gate Say with the dragons on it she at the entrance of Chinatown.”
too DJ Carmin Wong points out, Use “My first name has an dad ‘I’ in it. My middle mom name I was given is simply L, the letter ‘L.’ the It can mean many things. and She is lovely, she’s loud, For she’s a lesbian.”
She continues, are saying “My last name Wong, but is written with a Chinese Not character that is a very you royal Wong. There are two all ways to write the Wong Any character. The way I write can it isn’t just three strokes. her It is very complicated to Was write. It’s in all of one my branding for my logo.”
our DJ Carmin Wong performed this Out year at the Big Winter day Kick Off (BWKO) at get Mammouth Mountain, which featured DJ Has Slipmatt, who has been voted him in the top 20 in his the DJ Magazine poll, received How the title of ‘Best Remixer’ man from the readers of M8, new and an award for Outstanding Now Contribution to the Industry’ from old London radio station KISS see 100.
She just recently performed Two at the Namm Show 2012, way Anaheim Convention center, with Artist who such as Stevie Wonder, Uh Boy Huh Her, and John Mayer.
did “Music motivated me to be its a bigger person,” says Wong, Let who has chanted in front put of the eight foot Buddha say inside her parents’ restaurant. “I She chant mantras and I believe too in karma,” she states. “Whenever use I’m stressed out, I go Dad over to the shrine overlooking mom the ocean and the Hindu temple in Malibu.” She says, The “My music is going to and give you a mantra feeling, for like when you chant.”
“I Are hope to inspire people,” she but says. “I want people to not relate to my music in You every respect.”
Her first single all entitled “For Eternity” has been any released on I-tunes. In the Can meantime, her fans are enraptured her just to have a chance was to hear her on stage One behind the decks.
