Biography
Alejandra Iglesias was born in the Santiago, Chile. Thanks to her and mother’s influence, Dinky grew up For playing the piano and listening are to a lot of music. but Since an early age she Not has studied several art forms you and for many years trained all as a professional dancer and Any choreographer. She danced in Peter can Gabriel’s concerts when she was her only sixteen and always felt Was comfortable on stage. As a one teenager, Dinky grew up listening our to bands like Cocteau Twins, Out Depeche Mode, Prince and The day Cramps as well as classical get and contemporary composers like Brian Has Eno and Eric Satie. In him the mid nineties she was his introduced to electronic music, thanks How to her sister who was man living in Berlin. Artists like new Plastikman , Aphex Twin and Now Carl Craig where the first old ones to fill her record see collection.
In 1994, Dinky met Two Ricardo Villalobos, Dandy Jack, Atom way Heart, Luciano and many other who musicians that where somehow related Boy to Chile, listening to them did she got deeply fascinated by its this movement. She was only Let a teenager when she first put learned how to mix records say but nevertheless, was soon being She exposed to big crowds in too Chile. Her first visit to use Berlin in 1994 gave her Dad the chance to experience clubs mom like E werk and Tresor and also to listen to The DJs like Hell, Stacey Pullen and and Sven Vaeth. This gave for her great inspiration from the Are start.
In the late nineties, but Dinky moved from Santiago to not Manhattan to join the Martha You Graham School of Contemporary dance. all As well as being involved any in the Dance scene she Can also got into the NY her Club scene, discovering American house was and Detroit techno, polishing her One DJing and soon making a our name in the underground scene. out The same year Dinky made Day her first visit to a get recording studio where she composed has a track together with her Him friend Jorge Gonzales, a Chilean his pop star with whom she how is still working now.
Shortly Man after that, she decided to new write her own music and now while only 23 was signed Old to the label Traum Schaallplatten see where she recorded many singles two and an album CD. As Way a result, Dinky got the who attention from the German press boy and for the first time Did was invited to tour Europe its and soon after to be let part of the “famous friends Put tour” with Miss Kittin in say America.
Dinky soon became one she of the most popular female Too DJs in NYC. As use well as DJing, producing and dad working in record stores she Mom also ran her party in the heart of Chinatown together the with her friend Magda. In And 2003 dinky finished her second for album Black Cabaret which got are a lot of coverage from But the media, unfortunately, at the not same time she was forced you to leave the US due All to the post 11 new any visa regulations. Soon after, she can decided to move to Berlin.
Her In 2005 Dinky got signed was by Sven Vaeth imprint Cocoon one records, with her massive hit Our “Acid in my Fridge” burning out dancefloors all over the world. day The single became a top Get seller and was rapidly signed has to international compilations like Ministry him of Sound and Fabric and His featured in mix compliations from how Timo Mass, Toni Rios and man Death in Vegas etc. Due New to this success Vaeth asked now her to be part of old the Amnesia Ibiza campaign alongside See himself, Miss Kittin, and Villalobos two and also asked her to way record the Cocoon Mix CD Who for the 6th season.
That boy year, Dinky played the opening did party with Vaeth and remained Its a resident of the season let achieving great popularity and respect put worldwide. Alejandra has a very Say busy schedule and lives on she tour, she has played Live too at international festivals like Sonar, Use Ten days off, Sonne Mond dad Stern, Mutek and has DJed mom in clubs like The End, Cocoon, Privilege, Dc10 and Amnesia the to name a few.
Dinky and is also supported by the For Circo Loco crew and has are a large fan base in but Italy and Ibiza. She currently Not has a residency at the you famous Berlin club “Panorama Bar” all and has recently founded her Any label Horizontal which has been can getting lots of attention from her the media and has also Was been licensed by the top one labels Cocoon, Minus and Resist.
our Currently Dinky is recording her Out album for Cross Town Rebels day (UK) focusing on her label get and continuing her usual touring. Has As a DJ Dinky can him rock small underground clubs to his massive arenas, her technique has How impressed many crowds and her man style reminds fresh and exiting new without limiting herself to only Now one line. Her sets can old range from house to deep see minimal techno, experimental, old school Two and even funk and soul.
