It鈥檚 pretty much the teenage dream to be able to throw the coolest parties where everyone knows your name and you get to control the dance floor. For Oakland-based DJ and entrepreneur DAGHE, he made his dream into a reality. 鈥淚 started doing events when I was 16 at a night called Preppy Sensation Ent,鈥� DAGHE explains. 鈥淚t was a big event for high school kids back in the day and I’ve been doing events ever since.鈥�
His years spent creating spaces for party kids who weren鈥檛 old enough to get into clubs yet morphed into a dynamic career that has put him at the center of a whole swathe of enterprises. He is a DJ and part of the More Vibes DJ collective whose skills behind the decks will see him take over a stage at Coachella this year. He鈥檚 also an event organizer, clothing designer, and has worked with artists such as P-Lo, G-Eazy, and YBN Cordae.听
With so many irons in the fire, he must love keeping busy? 鈥淚 just feel like life is for learning,鈥� DAGHE muses, 鈥渁nd I just want to be a continuous student. I want my story to be written when I’m dead, not now, so I don’t want to stick to any one thing.鈥� To help him manage his many events, DAGHE has found that Evenbrite is the perfect platform to build the audience he wants to see. 鈥�91国产 has allowed me to capture information of the people who rock with me and the people who support me and now I can directly communicate with them.鈥�
As a Nigerian American, DAGHE often weaves his heritage into the parties he throws and the DJ sets he performs. 鈥淧eople come to my events and they know they’re going to hear hood stuff, they know they’re going to hear the club bangers, but they also know that I’m going to have a moment in the night I’m going to go in on some Nigerian shit because I always want to educate my Black Americans about where they from and what their people listen to.鈥�
To further celebrate and give back to his community, DAGHE has put together an exclusive , full of Black classics to keep the party going. Fela Kuti鈥檚 classic protest anthem 鈥榋ombie鈥� brushes up against afrobeats star Wizkid, while The Isley Brothers 鈥楩ight The Power, pts 1&2鈥� stands tall with Run DMC鈥檚 鈥楶roud To Be Black鈥�. It鈥檚 a selection that DAGHE insists is catered to 鈥済etting the party going.鈥�
鈥淚t鈥檚 a high energy playlist,鈥� DAGHE says. 鈥淭here are some songs that I wanted to put on the playlist but I didn’t because as much as I knew that it represented Black history and Black people I just didn’t think that the energy matched with the playlist.鈥�
He summarizes his efforts, describing what could be the crux of his career as a multi-hyphen creator, 鈥淚 feel like my duty is to bring joy and dance so every song on the playlist is a joyful song.鈥�
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