Joyce Mercedes

Biography

Joyce Mercedes’star has evolved into a DJ of great stature. Since 1999 her DJ career took her around the globe. She performed at clubs such as; Space World tour (Ibiza), Pacha, Supperclub, Ministry of sound, Nikki beach and festivals such as Amsterdam Dance Valley, Impulz outdoor, Sensation white, Miami WMC, and many others. At this moment she has performed in more than 70 countries and appeared in over 50 magazines and covers. Belonging to the top female DJ’s in the world. Her DJ sound is best to describe as uplifting house / tech with some serious Phat kicks and also touches the worlds of techno, tribal, minimal, funk, soul and got some trippy elements - “ I love to see people shine and give them “the” uplifting happy feel with my music”- From an early age Joyce Mercedes passion for music was burning. At the age of 6 years she was dancing and singing on tables Playback’ing her favorite songs. Took every possibility to perform as much as possible at (school) events. Acting singing dancing she loved it all. The last year of her elementary school she participated in a Playback girl group imitating the Dutch hit sensation “Dolly Dots” and performed around the Netherlands. Always blindfolded by her cassette player, getting the best tracks in the right order recorded: knowing “This must.. touch the hearts of others like it does mine” Her compassion for vynil started in the same years, the collection of her mother was a trigger and when she inherited the technics turntable from her deceased father at the age of 9. vynil was on. She started to spend many time in the local recordstore and a record collector was born. She passed her Athenaeum-diploma and began a study Economics. Next to her study she started to work as a dancer for leading organizations like Pantera and X-tension. She than decided to move and live in Amsterdam. This was followed by a sparkling dance show in which Joyce performed together with Irene Scholtes in the most famous clubs around the world. (Liquid –Miami / IT Amsterdam / Live New York / RoxY Amsterdam / Escape – Amsterdam / Le bain –Paris / Manumission – Ibiza / Pacha Ibiza / Space Ibiza etc etc) Her passion for music lies in her dancing as well as her singing. In the recent past Joyce was part of "Centerfold", the famous dutch popgroup that sang in 1998 to a sold out Amsterdam Arena during half time of the classic football game Ajax-PSV. "Centerfold" also added lustre to the 15th year anniversary of Playboy. She worked regularly as a model, featuring in campaigns for Heineken, Campari, Gap-Star and Playboy, Maxim and FHM magazine and has done various top 10 video clips, commercials and guest rolls in movie’s. All of this shows her huge passion for music. While participating in the Popgroup Joyce then decided to buy some turntables and master the art of mixing. Her first performance before an audience took place in sunny Miami at a private party. Quickly the bookings started to roll in, acuminating in the residency DJ spot at the well known Amsterdam Supperclub and the 2 year Space World Tour to crown it all off. At this moment Joyce has performed in almost every famous foreign club in Europe, North America, South-America as well as in the Far East. She will regularly be visiting several continents in one month. At this moment she