Thursday, July 3, 2008

Featured Million DJ March Speaker: DJ Syn City

SynCity, originally known for her skills as a battle break-dancer, theformer Foxy Brown backup dancer made her transition into deejayingprofessionally in 2005. A well known and respected veteran, DJ RocRaida of the world renowned DJ crew The X-Ecutioners passed along histurntables and mixer set to SynCity as a gift. The act changed herlife.SynCity has appeared on numerous media outlets such as MTV's MixtapeMondays, BET's RapCity The Basement, SHADE 45/ SIRIUS SATELLITE, AOLRadio, and Montreal's K103. She has performed around the globe withRussell Simmons' female R&B group Black Buddafly, Danity Kane of MTV'sMaking of the Band 3, Nicole Wray during her stint on Jay-Z's imprint,Roc-A-Fella Records/ Def Jam, DJ Cassidy's artist, O'Neal McKnight(SRC/Universal), and producer-turned-artist, 88-Keys, with whom albumis executive produced by Grammy Winner, Kanye West.Solidifying her reputation, SynCity was recognized for her mixtapes bythe Justo's Mixtape Awards, a legendary ceremony where stars likeDiddy, 50 Cent, Wu-Tang Clan and more have walked across the stage toaccept their titles. She is a 4 X nominated DJ for the categoriesRookie of the Year in 2005 and Best Female DJ in 2005, 2006, and againfor the 2007 awards.Her true love for the DJ artform comes out when she rocks parties.Dazzling the eclectic crowds in the most trendiest clubs for eventslike MTV's Video Music Award after-parties and NBA All-Star Weekend,to entertaining at the Rucker Park Basketball Tournaments in Harlem,she has proven to be well versed for various genres of crowd. SynCityhas headlined a hip-hop festival at Club Bon Bon in Shanghai, Chinaand was also part of the National Budlight/Maxim Magazine Tour in2006.SynCity have just returned from the USA 25 dates of the Fresh Rhymesand Videotape Tour sponsored by 2k Sports and Decon Records and iscurrently working on her debut album which is scheduled to be instores in Spring 2009 and have a monthly residency in New York at ClubRebel. You can catch her at http://www.djsyncity.com/.

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