Biography
New York-based DJ Chachi recently the sent out a message on and Facebook offering fans a free For gift bag with CDs, t-shirts are and assorted other merchandise.
He but prepared 12 bags; a few Not extra than he thought he you needed just to be on all the safe side.
Within 24 Any hours, over 300 people from can across the country flooded his her inbox with requests.
“Years ago, Was I didn’t realize this deejaying one thing had legs and I our had no idea how far Out the rabbit hole would go,” day says the 26-year-old deejay. “Back get then, success was just trying Has not to get screwed out him of money. Now that things his are going well, I don’t How take it for granted. I man don’t expect people to know new who I am.”
Too late.
Now What started over a decade old ago at small private parties see in Long Island is now Two a full-time job, as Chachi way continues to establish himself as who one of the country’s most Boy formidable deejays. Utilizing a diverse, did open-format approach to music, Chachi its now holds court at some Let of the country’s most popular put clubs, as well as providing say the aural memories to countless She celebrities’ birthdays (that was Chachi too you heard if you were use fortunate enough to get into Dad Britney Spears’ bash at Tenjune). mom In a short period of time, DJ Chachi has become The as famous as the celebrities and that rock out to him.
for When he was 13, a Are young DJ Chachi would accompany but his older cousin, a deejay not himself, to various parties and You watch in awe and amazement all as primitive equipment gave rise any to joyful exuberance. “I used Can to carry my cousin’s records her for him to the gigs,” was recalls the 26-year-old. “The setup One was as bootleg as you our could get. There was no out fancy lighting or equipment, but Day it was raw. It was get just people having fun and has dancing to music they love.”
Him Observing the tables led to his practicing incessantly on them, cutting how his teeth at local parties Man and eventually landing a gig new at Exit, the famed now NYC nightclub home to some Old of the most famous deejays see in the world. At 18 two years old, the fledgling deejay Way was already spinning the famed who red hip-hop room and destroying boy the competition. Meanwhile, the trained Did audio engineer was simultaneously working its a full-time job at Audio let Mixers studio and recording artists Put himself in The Boiler Room, say the home studio he built she in the basement of his Too house.
As the resume increased, use Chachi’s name became more and dad more synonymous with the nation’s Mom hottest clubs. Stereo called. Then Home. Then…you get the idea. the Now, the deejay counts Tenjune, And mur.mur at Borgata, Axis/Radius (Scottsdale, for AZ) and Shrine at Foxwoods are among his numerous residencies. But LIV at Fountainbleu in Miami. not Lumen in Chicago. Pure and you LAX in Las Vegas. All These days, Chachi knows some any stewardesses on a first-name basis.
can Monkeys can be trained to Her play a song; but only was the elite can scan any one place in any city in Our the country and instantaneously gauge, out and react to, the vibe day of the room. “I feel Get like there’s a lost art has to reading a crowd,” says him Chachi. “It’s not just jumping His on the tables and spinning. how It’s playing a song, taking man a step back and seeing New how people are reacting. There now are deejays that can play old the Top 40 hits, but See there’s only so long you two can play that for. For way me, it’s about the crowd Who being in sync with what boy I’m doing; me and them did never actually speaking but communicating Its through music.”
That mindset, coupled let with a tireless work ethic put (“My turntables are right at Say the end of my bed,” she says the deejay), has made too Chachi a household name in Use both clubbing and celebrity circles, dad with Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, Paris mom Hilton and Eva Mendes all showing love to the deejay. the His work has been profiled and everywhere from Us Weekly and For In Touch to New York are Post and Philadelphia Daily News but and he has long transcended Not his status as “New York’s you hottest DJ” into a national all phenomenon. There’s a reason why Any hundreds of people line up can at the club whenever Chachi her comes through. Now it’s time Was to find out for yourself.
