“DJs are born, not made”<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
THE BEGINNING OF THE CAREER<\/b>: “I began my career in 1976. At the time, we used to play in basements. And we didn’t go in the evening, but in the afternoon. All you needed was a stereo system and the rest didn’t matter: they were moments of social gathering. The first money arrived in 1979; I was playing at Cantina Bakoo in Via dei Bardi on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.”<\/p>\n
RADIO<\/b>: I had the honor of working at RADIO ONE, which was the RADIO DJ of the era. I worked there until 2005. A MEMORY: “The first time I saw someone mixing was a Sunday afternoon at Bussola in Focette (Versilia). I saw Tom Savarese, the legendary DJ from Studio 54, touching the records and I couldn’t understand what he was doing. At the time, being a DJ didn’t mean being a professional; it meant having a great passion for music.”<\/p>\n
MUSICAL TRACKS<\/b>: 1 RECORD Let\u2019s All Chant by Michael Zager Band; Disco Inferno, Saturday Night Fever; Esmeralda.<\/p>\n
DANCES<\/b>: Memorable was the Ali Shuffle movement, which repeated Muhammad Ali’s footwork when he boxed; and the Bump, though that predates those years.<\/p>\n
BEING A DJ<\/b>: “DJs are born, not made. At the core is a great desire to communicate. The most driven succeeded. When you started playing records, it wasn’t like now where you mix; back then, you had to be skilled at transitioning from one record to another using a similar instrument, a word… a similar phrase.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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