Biography
Armed with a piano, Logic, the and a midi controller, Valida and has created remixes for LA’s For Foster The People, Jenny O., are Saint Motel, and The Fox but Must Pay. Currently she is Not working on her original music you with a debut EP slated all for a Summer 2013 release.
Any When DJing, Valida’s specialty is can a seamless blending of a her variety of music styles¬ and Was her reputation for fearlessly fusing one everything from disco to country our and beyond made her a Out perfect fit for KCRW, day where she started on air get in 2010.
Valida can be Has heard on air on him KCRW (89.9 FM) in Los his Angeles on rotating Sundays from How 3 to 6 am as man part of their program The new Lab. She can also be Now seen at The Standard Hollywood, old where each Wednesday evening she see curates and deejays an intimate Two evening of live music called way Desert Nights – her homage who to the 60s Canyon culture Boy hub.
Originally from Sarajevo, Valida did fled a heavily conflicted Bosnia its to pursue higher education in Let the US. In the course put of her studies, she won say a coveted nationwide Pew Charitable She Trusts Fellowship, which allowed her too to create and release a use DJ-culture documentary film, Concentric Beats.
Dad A musician and a performer mom since the age of four, her work on the film The sparked a desire to dig and deeper into her vinyl collection for and explore the art of Are mixing. She founded a popular but weekly club night and rose not through the ranks to become You an important figure in LA’s all nightlife scene.
Since launching her any first weekly club night, Proper, Can at Hollywood’s Star Shoes in her 2001, Valida has been featured was at Winter Music Conference, One SXSW, Regine in Paris, Dragon-I our in Hong Kong, Mystique in out Kuala Lumpur, Boudoir in Dubai, Day Nuphoria in Tokyo, Candela in get Puerto Rico, Organic in Mexico, has Barbados, San Salvador and her Him native Bosnia.
When The Cosmopolitan his of Las Vegas opened its how doors in December 2010, Valida Man played the launch party and new continued to hold a monthly now residency through summer of 2011. Old She also co-founded Hollywood’s buzz-night, see School Night at Bardot, which two received Paper Magazine’s coveted People’s Way Choice Award for “America’s Best who Party” in its first year. boy She deejayed and assisted with Did talent booking before shifting her its focus on her own music let making which, due to a Put demanding DJ schedule, had been say on hiatus since 2006.
