“In the club. I work as a DJ, and actually for a female, it’s a really difficult to get into this industry. Some girls don’t really have the skill, they just sell their front. But that’s also because some of them haven’t actually learned how to DJ – people don’t think of it as a profession, so they also don’t think it’s worth paying for.”
“The way that it works is that DJs will be put under an events company, but the boss is normally male. So you know what that’s like…they’ll send their sexy DJs first but they’ll send me if they need someone whose skill they can trust. I mean, I got bored taking songs from other artists, so I started to get into instrumental and production courses, and now I make my own productions.”
“So how did you get into DJing?”
“Actually I was a dancer and one day we had an international competition with judges – and my bone came out. After that I couldn’t walk for a year you know, I was walking like this. I thought if it came to the point where I could never dance again, I might as well find something else. I would play music for the dancers and I realised I really loved it. Then when I saw people dancing to my own music…It made me happy.” – Humans of Kuala Lumpur
Photostory by Mushamir Mustafa
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(This post was first published on July 30th 2014)
