DJ Sólsis (Dallas/DFW): Latina Open-Format DJ + House Music Journey (DJ School, LLC)

DJ Sólsis is a Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) Latina DJ known for high-energy open-format sets with a love for house music, plus deep roots in cumbia, reggaetón, salsa, bachata, and merengue.

In this episode of The Global Latin Factor Podcast, host Crispin Valentin explores her journey from family dance culture and a first-generation upbringing to building a real DJ career. DJ Sólsis breaks down what it takes to improve fast—DJ training, learning phrasing and transitions, reading the crowd, and the behind-the-scenes work most people never see: music organization in Serato, gear preparation, and running the business side with an LLC and solid systems.

If you’re into Dallas DJs, Latina entrepreneurs, or open-format DJ culture, or you’re learning how to start a DJ business the right way, this episode is for you.

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Welcome, welcome you and all to another episode of the Global Latin Factor podcast where we talk about Latino everything. I'm your host Chris Valentine. Thank you so much for being here. Subscribe to the channel right now. Why you have nothing to lose and so much to gain like this amazing story by DJ Sausage. She's an amazing artist here in the DAW. Pretty much booked all week long. So, she does corporate events and so much more. And now to her episode. DJ Sis Hola. How you doing? I'm great, man. Thank you so much. Gracias is uh we ran into the Cabo Bar randomly one day and then we just ran into each other a few times. I'm like, I mean, I would love to have you one of these days. Today's the day. Today's the day. Absolutely. Are you ready though? Before we get started, we're going to do sal. If you have not subscribed for the channel to the channel, we got 2,000 subscribers and growing right now. Big shout out going out to all the ones that just subscribed recently. Thank you so much. Hope you're enjoying the content. Do us a favor, subscribe. It cost nothing and you gain so many stories. So many amazing stories like DJ Sausa, are you ready? List. Tacos or tortas? Tacos. Corn tortilla. Flour tortillas, corn, gordas or papusas. Gordas, salsa verde or salsa roa. Which team are you? Verde orito. Strawberry. Strawberry. Hamarindo. Ham. She didn't even let me finish the question. Valentina Tabasco or Cholula hot sauce? Valentina. Chur or Flan? Flan. Most favorite genre to mix. Probably Kumbia. Kumbia. Yeah. Kumbia. So if you want to celebrate a big win to something happened, a gig something somebody you're going to be opening up for salsa kumbia or bachata to dance. to dance and celebrate and celebrate salsa kumbia but I guess universal yeah easier to dance yeah for sure for everyone man salsa is hard I know the basics I think I still know the basics but yeah he's so easy to dance too so when you hear the word Latino Latina or Latinx what is the very first things that comes to mind to you uh I would say generational cultural al differences meaning just we are rooted from our parents but we come to the US and then they come to the US and then we're born here and Latinos are like born in the US essentially I would say um just overall for me like cultural um experiences sounds good. Do you care if anybody calls you Latina? Do you mind? Do you embrace that term? I love it. Yes, I love it. being a part of awesome. All right, let's get to a little bit of your story. So, let's start in the beginning. Are you a first generation? Yes, I am first generation. Do you happen to have like an interesting story from your parents or your mom or your dad of how they got to the states or they were already here? Are they also been here before or how did that happen as far? Yeah. So, uh my parents migrated I would say I think it would probably be like maybe 30 years ago. So, they've been here majority of their life at this point. Um but they both come at came at a very young age. My mom's from Mexico. Um and then my dad um is from Matamoros but is also from Matala Santos. Um and they both they actually met here. So uh their story began here. Um my parents met in the hotel industry. Uh they worked there in like pastries, you know, literally you name it in the hotel industry they worked. That's pretty and that's exactly how they met and that's how I'm here now. Were you born here in the Dallas area? Uh up north a little bit more. Carolton Farmers Branch area. Okay. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Growing up as far as for you uh how did it feel for you to grow up? Did you realize you were in a different place as far as like speaking Spanish at the house compared to going to school? Maybe not so much. before was the school even like fluent fluently pretty much in Spanish or not necessarily. I would say for the most part um I my first language was it was Spanish. So that's how I would identify myself like I knew Spanish before anything else. Um and then going into school I didn't necessarily feel different because I went to ESL for a little bit and eventually like got out of it pretty quickly. Um but for the most part I went to Latino majority school. So, it didn't really feel it didn't feel different for me. No. How about for you as far as just in general growing up, childhood? Is there any particular interesting memories that you remember growing up recalling back? I'm like, "Oh, that was pretty neat that we used to do this, you know?" Are you saying just uh just growing up? Oh, just growing up in general. Uh for my family, like the main thing is how I even got to music is dancing. M so that's one thing that kind of like brings us together uh is we get together and dance and we have differences but at the end of the day we're always doing the same thing. So we have this theory that we only get invited to parties because they know we're going to start the dance because we're the first people to get up and who do you uh when did y'all started like thinking about this theory? Uh when we were a little bit older, I would say a few years ago or we we would talk sit down and talk about like do you think people like only really invite us because we start the dance like probably but we embrace it so we love it because it's a weird thing sometimes, right? Like if if you're in a party wedding or whatever and there's nobody in the dance floor, it's like a deterrent for you to go and be the first one to be by yourself. But there's people they don't give they don't care. They just got to dance. Is that who you are? No, that's exactly who we are. That's cool. Ain't nothing wrong with jazz. Party starters. No. Yeah, that's exact. Put that to the resume. Okay. So, do you remember the first genre of music that you were like kind of sort of like finding the groove to it? Was it like Cuz having rhythm is like a it's like an internal thing that you can't really tell, but you have it or you don't have it period. That's it. But I would say definitely kas. But really, we dance to everything. You know, holidays was like the biggest times that we dance. Christmas up until like 3:00 a.m. dancing kumbas saza meen kabayor like all the traditional traditional music that Latinos usually dance to. So really that's what I think gave me the ability to be versatile. So you start um that's your first introduction to music but you're not thinking of DJing at all whatsoever. Is it a fantasy? Is it cuz I know you your brother was kind of diving into I don't know if you saw him during that time that he was getting into DJ. Well, my little brother actually got into it before I did. Um, that's kind of how it started essentially and he's been DJing two years longer than I have. I will be two years in February. So, he has some time on me and really I just went over there, watched him for a little and I was like, if he can do it, I can do it obviously. Okay, we'll get to that story here in a second. Let's hold on. But that's pretty neat that you say that. Uh, you went to school. you went to school in general just for uh I don't know exactly where you study in but you found you graduated and everything but how did that go for you as far as your experience in college and being a first gen Tamian. Yeah, that's a great point. Um I am first generation college. So I know you asked earlier that question about when did you start feeling different? I would say that's probably the first point in my life when I started feeling there's just more types of people around me. Um, so that's where it kind of uh my mind started shifting a little bit more. Um, and then in reference, what was the other question you asked in regards to what were you study? What did you go to? One of the So, I went to school right after high school at Texas State University in San Marcos and studied business uh, management with a concentration in sales. So, that's what I did. Um, I graduated, went into sales, uh, sold lighting, appliances, hardware to national distributor Ferguson. Um, so we basically distributed supplies. I worked with contractors, builders, homeowners. Um, we helped them build shower systems, custom shower systems. So that helped me just learning like general business being out there. Um, and then after that, I kind of just grew into a higher position. Uh, I went into a different job and then I ended up back into the service industry um at one point at the Ritz Carlton as a server and bartender every now and then. Um, so I was kind of like all over the place due to like COVID and shifts in life as well. Um, so it's crazy how I landed like here literally. Let's backtrack just a little bit. So that job in general, was it more maledriven? Was there a lot of females? Was there any Latinas at all doing what you was doing at that time? Uh um in or my sales position position at Ferguson? Yes. Um there was a lot of women. It was a showroom. Um it was majority um it there wasn't many Latina showroom consultants um when I worked in Houston. Um, but for sure like it was very different working in a sales position when you're being managed by different types of cultures and you're used to like only one type of person, you know, uh different mentalities, adapting to different types of people. Oh yeah. Some of them were different challenging than others to try to either sell or just have them build that trust of you need this and you can take it home, right? Buy it, right? So, you had to go all the way to Houston to work for that particular company? So, I actually worked in Houston. Um, trained there right after college when I got the job and then I actually moved to New Orleans. Oh, wow. Yeah, I lived in New Orleans for a year. Um, how was that for you? It was so great. I loved it. I love the slow pace, the southern vibe, like just the energy is very different. And then it goes crazy in Bourbon Bourbon uh bullet whatever. Bourbon Street. Bourbon Street. Yeah. But the local scene is a lot better for sure. It's not like what they put in in the videos and stuff like that. It's just one street. I've been there before. Okay. Being there and being Latina and knowing some of the things that we know, did you get like a weird eerie feeling when you're there, did you ever feel any type of way? Cuz I was there and it felt funny to me. I would say no. No. It was just me and it was just you. Yeah. No, definitely. Yeah. I went to see the swamp. I went through all that stuff and they showed us the cemetery and I was just in Vervin Street. I don't know. I just get it like a the history weird little feeling at least for me. No, there there's history. I I think it's it's definitely just what is it? Uh a little bit roughed out, but I mean it's really southern. It's a beautiful place to be. I think the people more if anything, not necessarily the scenery. No, no. The people seem seem very cool as far as And the food of course. Yeah, that definitely that creole food. Yes. So, you get laid off at that time and that's what what makes you come back over here? No. So, I actually continued to work for um the company and then I unfortunately some family stuff happened. So, I moved back to Houston to take care of that and then moved back to Dallas when COVID hit because there was really nothing else to do in Houston. Um and I moved back to Dallas and then I just started living here again. um bought a house and just got settled back in here. So during that time, are you still getting into DJing at all? What is that thing? There's still nothing going on. That's 2020. Yeah, I would say like when I would say like I I got I like I like the music scene. Um I used to go to festivals a lot, a lot of house uh festivals, Electric Forest, you know. Um I mean I've been all over the world. Michigan State, like I've been Tennessee to go to different uh festivals. I like to do that as well. That's cool. Haven't had the opportunity to, but recently, but that's definitely what I love to do. So, you you still loved it, but you weren't even thinking of DJing. Not at all. Come to Dallas, you working at the Aritz, and it's still just working in general. Yeah, just working, trying to figure out what exactly I wanted to do. Um, and then it kind of just that's when my brother, you know, he had already been DJing. So, take me back to the moment like you knew he was DJing. You just going to go check him out and hang out with him and see him practice. Yeah. At his house just hang out just like I got I see my brothers often. And what is his DJ name? Uh G Money. What up? G Money. G Money. So you check out G Money. You see him get down and you're like if he could do it, I could do it. Exactly. Kind of like that. Well, yeah. I mean, he's my little brother. Whatever. Okay. So, what is the first step that you take to Cuz you actually went to school, so you enrolled. So, I talked to him and I was like, "I want you to teach me, but I also don't want you to teach me." Because I didn't want him to say, "Oh, I taught you everything you Why is that important for you?" No, it was just more of a joke to be honest. N for real, for real, real. No, I would say like cuz I I really because I really wanted to learn the technicality and I knew that he didn't know have like the knowledge on that because I was like I want to learn ex in an accelerated way and this is the only way to invest into it a little bit. Okay. And never did I think this was going to be a job. This was just really just entertainment, pure entertainment for myself because we like music. We have rhythm, you know, we love to listen different styles of music like my brother and I. So I just got into it and uh at the DJ School of Dallas. That's exactly where I went. Um 8week course. Yeah, it's eight weeks. But you took private lessons in addition, didn't you? Uh so during the eight weeks, I didn't take private lessons. I would just come before and hang out after. And DJ Titan, he taught me everything. And DJ Soldier, the owner, like they taught me a lot of things out there, but um I would stay before or stay after and just kind of like pick up on random things. Um and I just kind of invested into my into it a little bit more than I thought I would to be honest. And it just became more natural quicker. So would you say that you kind of got bit with the bug when you realized what you could do with just a turntable and music and how can you put put it together to cuz DJing is just creating an entire beat non continue it's non-stop the same way all the way over and over but there's a technique to it you know there's BPMs there's all kinds of stuff that's involved with it right for sure did you immediately when you saw that I like like a rush I would say the rush happened probably six months months into it. Yeah. Because initially, no, it doesn't feel like that. It's more of a mental drain because it's like, why am I not understanding this? Why isn't it clicking? But once you get that, like I think the moment for me was when I was able to blend four tracks in a row without planning it. Like it was just like how how I got how I feel like I got confident was I never planned anything out initially when I was learning. I would just go for it. Just go for it. follow the steps that were given to me to do it and see what it sounded like and from that it evolved into something else. I like okay like this is actually cool. So theory they teaching you theory are they teaching you still practice as well but what was the most challenging part that you were not getting like why is this not clicking? What was it? Uh I would say understanding phrasing. phrasing is essentially the changes in music and phrasing within different genres um is is difficult as well. I mean, Sasa sometimes doesn't have counts because back in the day they were like just freestyling, going ham, you know, just whatever, you know, uh, hip-hop has standard phrasing, you know, there's different genres. And I feel like once I got that, everything just became pretty easy because DJing is moving in rhythm, too. Like essentially, it's always counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3, 4. And at some point you stop counting in your head and it just becomes you start hearing a your ear starts getting trained to the sounds right and it just becomes like a dance like you know every button I touch I feel like I'm dancing with it like it becomes a flow. So So at the six week mark whenever you kind of clicked everything clicked for you was that would you did you in a gig? Did you immediately after school started doing gigs or you would just practice and see what happens? No. So I would say immediately after I graduated, I started to just take on gigs free. How did that go? How how did that happen? First of all, why free? And how do you go about approaching people to to DJ in their establishment? Yeah, I mean there's different ways. There's I've gotten business about different ways. Uh initially when I graduated from the school, I uh did the St. Patty's parade with my little brother. We have a tradition to be on a corner and DJ. He did it before. this time I did it and that was like the first I planned out a set because I was like I don't want to mess up right but he challenged me and he put me on and he was like your set's not going to work for this crowd right now like figure it out on the fly and that was like a pivotal moment too of like DJing freestyle kind of but like prepared um what was your other question well well I forgot either two but in general like one thing that the DJs have to know how to do is read the crowd. So your brother was a little bit more advanced in the sense that he knew but you weren't capturing that at that moment yet. Right. No, because I was so fiction like stuck on playing that playlist in order because I didn't want it to sound bad. Right. So I think that was like that was a little challenging but that's when I started like instantly the next gig challenge myself. Okay, be prepared in a different way. not overly prepared in the exact same way you want to position everything, but just a general energy like readers, you know. So, you pretty much had to invest quite a bit starting off because you did the course and then of course equipment, you know, whether you're going to have your own speakers, whether you're going to have your controller, mixer board, the music itself, where you going to get it from, how you maneuver all that to get prepared to be able to even do it for your gig because you have to have music to be able to DJ. You can't DJ 20 tracks over and over. Yeah. So, starting off with just like the equipment. Um, I've been my first board I bought myself off of my brother's friend. Wasn't a lot. 400 bucks maybe, right? Like I thought it was reasonable for What did you get first one? Uh, it's a D uh SRT 1000, a two channel. So, two channel. Uh, it's a sturdy one. Um, but I actually was very fortunate enough to meet the right people. Um specifically my friend Josh um Alura he uh also I was in the program with me at the DJ school and we became really friends or we became really close friends and he was capable of purchasing a lot of equipment so he actually like let me borrow it a lot of it for a really long time. Um, so I'm super blessed in that aspect and eventually it build up to like getting my own things and I had the opportunity to give those free gigs out. Um, because at that time I was still working at the hotel as well. So um, and those were free gigs because they needed to be lessons and the person receiving the service also knew that as well. So yeah, not only that, but you're have to put in those those hours, the muscle memory to remember how to do it, learning the part that you now you're confident enough to get paid. Uh take me back to your very first paid gig. Uh how was that? Where was the place? What was the approach to the business? And how did it go about for you? So that my first paid gig was a friend for her dad's uh he became a citizen. So it was like congratulations. Yeah. They were celebrating his win on that. So um she's like, "Okay, this is how much we're going to give you." And I'm like, "Okay, perfect. I didn't expect anything, but we'll take it." Right. That's cool. And it was at her house. uh her parents house and it was it was fun. It was cute. I was prepared and asked the right questions on what genre they wanted. They gave me a general playlist and I added on to it and organized it accordingly. But yes, what about the music? How how do you go about building up your your music as far as what you have cuz that such a crazy question and for me that was easy cuz you know a DJ too, right? Not like you like high speed like the be that you have but I don't know how to do that's why I know some of the technicalities. You know the technicality. Yeah. Yes. So, music. I'm more of an MC though. Hey, I need I need to learn MC. Okay, I got you. Um, okay. So, I'm in the midst of my music journey essentially. I think at this point I can transition well and I feel like it's smooth, right? And I'm understanding still learning how to read energy, but music has been the most challenging in the sense of like selection and being organized. M so I've recently built the perfect system and I don't mind sharing it at all because maybe it's not going to work for someone right and maybe it will but essentially Sorado I use smart crates and I uh basically pull uh or have each column mean something. So essentially like the title right the BPM the key those are standard. The next one I put grouping. This is where I have how I can use this song. For example, I'll label it heart slash sing a heartful sing along. And then automatically that I can make a crate and like it'll automatically pull all those tracks in there. So I have different variables like hands up or like stuff like that essentially to room control. Uh so that's kind of how I've built out my system. It's still not done yet because I'm essentially using my new laptop to do that to stay organized. Reabel everything. Reabel all my cues for 5,000 songs that I have currently. Delete music I don't need. You know, reestablish myself before going into the new year with heavy load of music that I don't necessarily need. Now that I know what the expectations are for my business, people don't understand how many hours it takes to even just organize your crates, right? Yes. At this point, I have a system. Every day I have to do 50. Hopefully by end of January I will or like a little over that I'll be done. But yes, it's tedious work, but it also helps because it helps me know what's in my library. You do have to stay organized if you're a DJ UK cuz and if you want to be versatile, I think that's the biggest I think it's to a fault being versatile, you know, it can be bad because you have to work harder or it takes more time to build that because you're trying to do a lot of things. Yeah. Take me back. Uh let's backtrack just a bit for the very first gig paid. Like you're there. You're just you got your stuff set up. You know, whatever time it takes you to set up and everything. You kind of try everything. Make sure it's good. I don't know if you went through some trouble to try to the freaking thing's not coming on, but the speaker is not on. It happened to me before. Like, why are there no sound coming on this thing? Oh, shoot. Speaker. Yeah, literally the So, after you were set up and everything, you troubleshoot everything, sound coming out, looking good. How do you how you feeling that you're getting paid for your first gig? Even though it's a friend still, you know, there's money coming in. No, I think it was more I think it was funny to me. If anything, I'm like, this is cute. Like, I'm just I'm doing this because I love my friend and, you know, and and her dad, but really I didn't have like a sense of like value. I think my biggest sense of value I got was when I got like my first um private event, you know, like corporate event, like I'm like, "Okay, I'm valuable." Like I I'm getting paid to do quality work, you know, that's like the first time cuz like I feel like when you're first starting off again, I still thought it was a hobby like, you know, this did not begin to become a business until the new year like last year. 2025. Yeah. Essentially like so you filed your LLC at that time. Yes. Why did you decide to go ahead and you said this is not a hobby no more. I think this there I have something here and I want to make it more legit and follow people working and everything. Right. So eight months into DJing I think when I started getting consist consistent work on the weekends it started to become overwhelming essentially for like tax purposes and like business purposes, right? M and it just seemed like the the right move to be honest and it's super easy to do. So I Yeah, my friend Josh, he helped me, walked me through it. He talked to me about how simple it is to run a business overall. Mhm. So you're not just DJing, you're actually running your DJ business that you did with everything set up the way it's supposed to be because again, tax purposes. A lot of DJs get in trouble for that. They um they think just getting paid cash and this and that and you know $1099 is not falling in like No no no son was his I met uh at the San Patty's parade. I was just just hanging out with the homies cuz I used to uh hang around with some DJs too. So I was hanging out with them and this IRS guy comes around asking just random questions like oh so how do y'all get money or how do you like I don't know bro I'm not a DJ. You going to wrong the language. But you going to ask him, bro. I don't know nothing, bro. But I know. I knew. I'm like, I know that. You know that. We know. Yeah. But I ain't telling you nothing. So, go ask somebody else. But yeah, it was funny how cuz before even I met him or ran into him, I knew the other homies had got in trouble because they're not they're making money and then doing the right steps essentially. Yeah. Eventually eventually. Yeah. You're going to have to pay Uncle Sam for his part. Okay. So the first corporate gig, how did that come about? And I are you did you already had everything set up and finished? Yeah. So I think the my first big uh corporate gig was um BCG company. Um I got that through a friend Angelique. Um they were looking for three different DJs and it was a silent disco. So essentially uh people would everyone would walk it was at the Dallas Arboritum. Oh cool. Everyone would walk into a tent, they would get headphones, and there was three different colors. I was pink, there was like blue, and then like a greenish. That's neat. And they were tuning into whatever frequency, whatever frequency they wanted to listen to. I thought it was fun. I thought I felt like it was effortless and the payout was like just the feeling of like, you know, receiving that was like, okay, corporate some be. I don't know. I that that's Yeah, it was an honor to be honest. like it was like yes it's about the music it's about creating a vibe but when you're running a business your mind shift your your mindset shifts a little bit more into okay like a little hustle mode because your life essentially depends on it right versus like going out and partying and that's fun you know but it does get to the point where you kind of have to figure it out tell me about that part because I think uh it's a little bit challenging to be in the industry and not to cuz every every other song somebody wants to bring you a shot or a drink or what do you want and eventually you have to mix and you have to be focused because it's still you have to be the one watching making sure the crowd don't get too rowdy. How do you manage that or when did that come about for you to be able like I can't get drunk? Do you Yeah. Oh my god. Okay. So yes, that is an amazing question. Um, initially obviously it wasn't my business, right? So, I was enjoying it a little bit more in the drinking aspect. And you're right, like it becomes you're in the scene and people are bringing you shots. It's encouraging. They're hyping you up. They're, you know, it's free. You know, the bar is trying to get you drunk cuz you're h you're making the crowd move. So, I think I mean I'm 30 so like also I've partied a lot. I would say like I partied a lot in college. So, it get it does get to the point to where it becomes a shallow place when you get drunk, go uh go DJ, go home, wake up, sleep in, do the same thing the next night. You're just kind of like living to like get to that point and it becomes very shallow, becomes very empty. Um, so it's become a journey in that aspect, but I've learned it really quickly because I've already had my fair shares of like, okay, that probably was I probably pushed it to the limit for sure. So, they're definitely lessons learned. Yeah. Um, how do you keep the customers and the staff that they want to give you drinks without offending them cuz some might get offended? No, I think no and no, I don't care really because it gets to the point where you just say no and they know. Yeah. Um, but I think the when I do private events, for the most part, like I won't unless it's like a family event, I won't consume. Um, I have rules now when I drink like during the week when I work during the bars, I drink once a week. So, like if I wanted to just in the more creative aspect when it's more workrelated, I try not to because it just kills the vibe. Yeah. And you're tired and you still have to carry all the equipment and it's tough sometimes. Yeah. No. And carrying the equipment in heels like I've done that before. You know, girls, you're a little body. I I I don't like want to break down stuff at the end of the night, too, cuz I'm like, damn, I got No, no. Once it once that that timer is over, instantly I put myself in this mentality of like, okay, just flow, get it done, because once you get negative and you're tired, oh my god, it's just it's so draining. It hurt even more. Okay, you got an opportunity to open for uh Tal um Montter. Yes. How did that opportunity come? How they found you? you were part of uh some other DJs that they had as well, but they were going to be the main event, right? So, um how did I get that gig? So, I the last year I did a a New Year party at the SOA Hotel and there was this gentleman who came up to me and asked me I had was only playing like disco dance music for that crowd and he came up to me. He's like, "Do you do Latin music?" And I was like, "Do I do Latin music?" Sorry. Yes, I do. And so he pointed me to in the direction of Victor and uh his business is Chakis. So he's a talent agency. He hired me at Lamina. Um we made a connection. He continued to hire me at Lamina for random little gigs. And then he just re told me he reached out to me. He's like would you be interested in DJing for Dval? And I was like my childhood you know like my kinera era. Yes, of course. Of course. Absolutely. And so it didn't come up. So I didn't think it was going to happen. And then months later he reached out to me again. He's like, "Hey Montre, are you ready?" And I was like, "Yes, yes." I was super excited. Um I was becar to it because I wanted to show like professionalism that I got I taught at I got taught at the DJ School of Dallas. Like there's professionalism to DJ that sometimes you don't learn until you get go through it. But showing up on time, having a USB, doing soundcheck, uh having a backup USB, you know, backup to the backup. Yeah. Seriously. And you know, how to talk to people when you get there, like what to say, who to go to, what the green room is, like all those little variables. Yeah. I invested to learn to that. And a lot of those things al are also common common things, courtesies, right? So, of course. Um but yeah, it that's how I got that little gig. And how does it feel playing for actually being on stage and getting the jam out and playing? Yeah, I was I was nervous. I usually don't get nervous unless it's like big um opportunities like that because it just becomes natural, right? Yeah. But I was super nervous and as soon as I started playing and I saw the crowd moving and I was like, "Okay, I got this." Like it could cuz you know I came prepared for that. I am a laptop laptop DJ but I know how to DJ on USB as well. Um, that was one of the things that I learned at the DJ school is thankfully, um, I had a board that was only sat. So, I ended up learning both. Um, but sorry, I lost my train. I like Sorado, too. I do with Sorado. Uh, you were prepared for Madre and you saw the people moving, but you knew that you had to have and be ready and be overprepared to perform. Overprepared. Um, and I came with this like set playlist and I didn't deviate. I the last 30 minutes was freestyle because I was like, "Okay, I got this." Like I already know what they expect. But sometimes on USBs, it's harder for me because it's not as accessible as a laptop where you can like type in and go on stream. Yeah, I like both. I like both. I like the laptop better. I like I like USB because that's all of the music that you're going to play. That's all. And you have to be prepared for any scenario on USB. And that's also like my goal within the next three months. Have that perfect USB and then build it because there's been scenarios where I'm like, "Oh, I could have used this. I could have used this." And it's part of Does it happen to you whenever you go back like, "Oh, I should have played this." Oh, yeah. All the time. All the time. All the time. That's cool. Okay. So, you also get to do uh Rayburgger. I believe you also got to do a show with him, right? Yeah, I got to open for him twice. That's cool. Um, he was super genuine guy the first time. Um, it was a make connection through uh DJ Titan. Um, and we kind of connected. He he's such a smart guy and he's very genuine. He's always like trying to help uh other upcoming DJs. Is he from Houston or here? I'm pretty sure he's from Dallas. Oh, that's cool. And then uh the second round he just reached out to me again. I was like, "Of course, dude. I'd love to like DJ with you." Now, there's one thing about being a DJ and then then there's the other wire. If you want to get to those bigger platforms, those festivals, those David Guta type of thing, you have to be able to produce. Is that something that you have see in your future that you wanted to dab into? How to make tracks, how to put them together and have your own original things or not necessarily? I would say yes and no. I would say no right now because I'm going I'm prioritizing my business. Mhm. Um, my how I want to be versatile is I I do love being a club DJ. I do like being a wedding DJ. Like I do like being a festival, whatever type of DJ that you need me for. Um, so I feel like all those other creative things will come once I established myself. That's cool. Yeah. It's only been a like legit a year, maybe two years going. Yes. A year. It'll be a year in business for sure. Yeah. But DJing technically about roughly two years or so, right? Two years in February. February. Two years. Awesome. Congratulations. Thank you. Yes. Now, as far as uh now that you got you everywhere like a whole week worth of I seen your schedule. Yes. I seen your schedule and you have how many places you're DJing this week? Well, it's up until the 10th, but like six. Six. Yes. So, I know you mentioned earlier the talent agent person. Is that somebody that you have or do you actually yourself go and talk to the venue saying like, "Hey, I'm a DJ." I don't know if you have something that you present to them, a video or something, whatever. Right. Yeah. So, luckily, uh, most of my opportunities I think the only one of the only opportunities that I walked into was the Trove. Um, shout out the Trove. That's like one of the first to get uh resident. That's the first residency I got in um, Bishop Arts and just in general. Uh but that was the only place I walked in other than that thankfully everything I hate to say that but everything has come to me in that sense but now that my business is shifting I am the one in outreach mode right now. So this beginning of the year I have a new logo coming a new like shift in it. It's going to be a stamp rather than like my name. Just a little bit more elegant, minimalist, kind of like that in between versatile for every to kind of like showcase everything. Is that the shift that you're referring to regarding to the business? Yes. Okay. So, you're kind of rebranded a little bit and make it different things cuz people people over complicate the logo. Of course, I'm not the greatest example for our logos, right? Because it's too colorful, but looks beautiful. It does look But when you want to think of simplicity for logos and memorable, you talk about McDonald's, Coca-Cola, right? Very simple. Everybody knows somebody is Nike. Check. You already know. So that's kind of sort of the approach you were going with a little bit more. Yes. Um and and that's the that's the battle that I fight, right? Because I like the artistic side of it. I like when I get to do afro like house, you know, Rayburg burger style stuff. Guaca, but then like you I also have to cater to corporate events if I want to be in that level. Yeah. You know, and that also comes with the professionalism, but Logos is professionalism as well. So, yeah. Whenever uh you DJing as far as like do you do uh sten? I haven't done one like You have not done one? No. Yeah. No, but I had one. So, it's a lot more women pieces, girl. Well, wedies are nice and easier, but when it comes to especially the ones that are like full-blown like freaking Chambilanes, court the whole nine and they want to do bilingual, it gets tricky. No, no. I'm sure uh I feel like anything is possible if you just prepare, right? Especially with DJing, it's just preparation. And I've learned that the hard way. You know, I've had my fair shares of embarrassing feelings, right? Of what was the most embarrassing thing that happened to you? Oh my god. If you don't mind sharing that that somebody else can learn from they they can not make the same mistake in that in that approach. I don't want to put you No, no. I I really have to think of one cuz there's many, but I would say the most the most embarrassing thing that's happened to me. The worst thing could happen a lot of times when your music is off. I know the worst, the embarrassing. So, I I did a wedding and I was using uh somebody else the wedding venues equipment. I had never done that. There was a static noise. I couldn't figure it out and it just wire. Uh I don't know. Um it had to do with like a setting. Oh, and I had just started using a mixer. So, I had to do a setting with like on my laptop. I can't remember exactly what cuz I like Googled it and I was just in the midst of things and I blacked out. I swear. But so you panicked. Yeah, it was sickening. Well, like internally it was sickening, right? Because that's literally the sound of the room. And so thankfully I had an MC who was experienced and he figured it out. And I think it just made me feel really like sick sick to my stomach and I like that's somebody's time, you know, somebody's money, you know. So it's Did you fix it before you went into the party and the ceremon? It happened the It happened the static noise happened like probably like 15 minutes into people sitting down enjoying their drinks or their food. How do you pick yourself up after having that feeling to be wanting to yeah go back and do it again? What do you get the strength for it or what made you want to say okay finally happened let me just keep get back on the horse and do it again. Yeah that's a good question. I did start you know creating doubt of is this the right move you know is is private events or weddings is that something that I want to do because it is somebody's big day it's a big commitment and you're committing to they're investing and you're committing to you so I think what helped me bounce back was that this is all I have essentially and this is the best way that I can you know you I kind of give torturing myself in that sense right and as soon as I the next day I had another wedding. So, I had like back to back and I was just as prepared, but I my confidence just boost up because I'm like, "Hey, I have to show up for these people no matter what, you know, no matter what happened." And even that night of the wedding, like I bounce back because it's in the moment, right? You you feel gut-wrenching, but you have to use that in order to move forward because it's it's a big deal, you know? It's a lot of responsibility. After that event happened, what do you think you could have done different to make sure that it didn't happen that way? Uh, I would say definitely get there even an hour earlier, even though you're using someone. I was there I think an hour and a half earlier and even though you're using somebody else's equipment, like get there 3 hours before just to sit down, relax knowing, you know, it worked. Yeah. But it's a lesson, right? I mean, that's another one, too. That the punctual time and then running behind and then trying to get it. It's not worth your time. Like one of the DJ homies that I work for the MCL a lot. Usually he's way earlier, like two, three hours early. But it makes sense because like sometimes we go like Arkansas, Missouri, you name it, we go out of town sometimes and you one time we got a flat. Yes. Right. Getting too close. I mean, it wasn't expected, but luckily we had accounted for the time. We changed the tire right back on the road and we were able to manage put everything together before anybody got to sit down. So we were good to go. But a lot of people don't think about those things that you last minute trying to make it. It's not going to happen for you. It's because that's when the things started going wrong. Something happened. The wire is not turning on. Your mic's not working. All kinds of stuff. You don't bring extra XLRs, power cords, power to your board. Yeah. All of that. And yeah. I know. This year I have inventory list. I The power source is freaking miles away and you have to find a way to Man. Yeah. That's all kinds of stuff that has to be happen. That's why I do venue walkthroughs now. Do you? Right before you I've actually done them since the beginning of time. I feel like that's cool. Nobody had to tell me that. I feel like that's the smartest thing to do. Venue walkthroughs. So for anybody that trying to check you out here in the Dallas Forward area, Dallas area mostly, where can they find you at? Do you remember your schedule at all? Do you want to I don't know if you want to look at it. Um No, I don't remember. Excuse me. I can probably look at it. Uh definitely. I'm going to be tomorrow. Uh tomorrow I'm at a tattoo shop, Chaotic Tattoo Shop in uh Fort Worth, a tattoo party. That's going to be fun. Um that's Sunday. Yeah. I don't know. I always have to look. That's embarrassing. I'm trying to see if you have it on your uh on your IG. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, that's a tattoo party going on tomorrow. This one right here. Right. Yes. But my actual I thought I seen the schedule. I don't know if it was on the story or not. Yeah. Where is it actually? I definitely saw it. Oh, here it is. Okay. What you got? Uh yeah. So, uh Chaotic Zen tattoo party and then I am on Sunday Tiny Victories. That's going to be so much fun. Um I'm going to collaborating with uh Chel and Oakliff. He does food, tacos. Um, so we're gonna do a kumbia norta vibe. He's going to have food food vendor. Uh, it's just something different. Um, we don't listen to a lot of Nortenas. Nobody like I mean mashing and I know they have Nortenas at the Trove. I'll play every now and then, but when it's targeted towards like Nortenas and Kumbasa, like all that stuff, I feel like it would be a good crowd. Um, Sunday, uh, Tuesday, I'll be at the Trove. I'll do, uh, hiphop, R&B, and then in with some Latin usually. Yeah. Um, Wednesday, uh, the 7th, I'll be at Boogies from 10 to 2. Uh, this is like one of those extreme creative things I like to do. Just I'll probably play funk, uh, groove, any afro inspired disco. Yeah. Uh, Latin disco, uh, really anything. One of the things that I noticed whenever I was checking some of your videos out, especially the one from the House of Blues, man, girl, you don't stop. You just grew me the whole night. I'm like, how the heck does she do it? Honestly, yeah. I think it's just natural energy. Like, I just the music, it's just music. Just I don't know if you ever seen your video, but just won't stop. Like, girl, I'm always a lot of energy. It's a lot of energy. And then I Thursday, I'll be at Tiny Victories. So, I I've been doing Tiny Victories. Um, I'm going to try to change the concept a little bit and do a little bit more targeted towards like Afro World music. Um, some like light salsa, just like very nothing like with a lot of words, just like sounds. Um, and then end the night with some Latin heavy. So, truly a for open format DJ, I would say. So yeah, I would say I mean for New Year's I did I did a senior citizens uh club uh as their New Year's Day and did it at 11. It was amazing. It was the best experience ever. And um I had never done 50s, 60s, you know, Rolling Stones. Like I don't that's the genre that I'm like, okay, I don't really know like that, right? And it was challenging and I had enough time and I prepared for it and it was I honestly am going to tap into that and start reaching out to um retirement homes because it was so much fun. And it's pure, you know, they're enjoying their time. And I had so I I love old people and children. So that's awesome. They're like the easiest crowds. You could play anything and they're they're going to dance. It'll be the theos and the theos. They be complaining. They don't pay nothing. And then they go telling you to the freaking whatever song. Yeah. And then I have one more um going to my first out of state. Yeah. The Alabama. I have a gig in Alabama. So what you got going on in Alabama? It's going to be a little uh not little, I guess. Um it's called Pero Palazenas by this group out there. They they reached out to me. Um it's run by Erin, I think her name is Erica. Um we had a good conversation. You know, I like working with Latinas, especially if they're women. Like, let's work together, let's make some money, you know, let's hustle, uh push each other. Uh so I'm excited for that. Something different to start the year off. And I mean, I was worried that I wasn't going to like survive, but if anything, I'm really honored and blessed to have these opportunities and I'm going to just continue to work and hustle. That's amazing. That's amazing. Anything else regarding your DJ career that you learned that are like um you'll be like, man, I wish somebody would have told me this sooner. Oh my gosh, probably what's something? Oh, probably the music organization and the music knowledge overall. Just how set up for success. It's hilarious when people from the perspective on the outside is different from when you're actually doing it. Like for example, everybody thinks can they can get on a podcast and talk forever. Sure. Go ahead, get down. Please do it. But everything else setting up, getting ready for you, the whole shebang took a whole week, right? you know, even from the time we just set the date to, you know, having you here to finding stuff about you to be able to have a conversation instead of just like, "Oh my god, this is so boring. Why is he talking?" You know what I mean? So all that and then putting everything out in the background to a DJ that the equipment, the music organizing. You think that like for anybody that never DJ is like, "Oh, we just have a couple songs and no no no no. And then that those are like the type of conversations, you know, I have with clients. I'm I'm still trying to figure out I think the best way to interact with clients for me has been just being honest obviously about your experience. Tell them what you can provide and tell them what you've done already. Whenever they're trying to book you, what do they want to see mostly, your social media or some video that you've done or hear a mix? Uh I think definitely people use social media as a starting point. Um and then they're going to go into the mix. Uh but yeah, I think that that's what the route that people are taking. I was kind of I wouldn't say against social media. It was just really hard for me to jump into it so naturally. Um I needed I needed to find a way to do it in in the way that was a little bit more I don't know. I think social media is weird, but just a little bit more genuinely me versus like trying to do trends. I don't I still kind of struggle with it a little bit. I I see you putting some videos out that are like kind of trendy a little bit, but people enjoy that stuff. I want to see the people behind you. I would never let anybody I'm like a little older. Like everybody's in front of me. Y'all right there. Y'all ain't going to get behind me. They got wires and all kinds of You stay right there. I get it. But you know, for whoever started it, all of a sudden everyone want everybody behind the DJ jamming out, which is cool. It looks great. No, I appreciate it now. I I I found value in it. And yeah, of course, for sure. like every video I feel like comes a different opportunity, right? Because again, I'm trying to show my versatility. So, if anything, I'm that's the direction I'm going. Um, are you planning out any more uh probably uh produce videos? Yeah, maybe. So, yeah, for sure. I have some ideas of direction I want to like I've written ideas of different types of directions I want to take um content because I want them to be continuous stories. Um, do you have any of your your mixes anywhere that people can go listen to? Check it out. um boogies on YouTube. Um Kui Fest that I did a long time ago, like Guadacha, Tech House. Um and then I recently released one from Emerald's Lounge, a little bit more soulful, uh disco. So, are they on YouTube or Mixcloud or any of that stuff? Uh they're on all on YouTube. And then I have a old school uh hip-hop old school R&B one from Atlas for Mother's Day um on Soundcloud. So that's cool. Before uh we're running short on time. Thank you so much. Uh before I let you go once again all your social media, where can people reach you at? Where can they actually No, before that when you were driving over here, you're like thinking about you never done a podcast, right? No, it's the first time. Yes. Yay. Again. Yes. But uh you were thinking, I hope he asked me about this or I hope we touch up on this. Is there anything in your mind that we're like, man, I wish I really wish we talk about this? Um yeah, I would definitely say like my where essentially my music taste came from. Um overall my mom's from Mexico City, so like right capitalina, right? Okay. Uh Latin, you know, the rocks, all that stuff. And my dad's from San Louis, so we got like some regional um styles, but my also my dad's also like from Tampico. So I kind of have like the beach style. So I really have an appreciation for my parents and their music tastes and just like their the way that that's kind of translated into us into my family. Uh so just appreciate that and it's kind of the one thing that like keeps us together for the most part. So, well, the great part they introduce you cuz a lot of people parents might not want you to even play the music only learn about it, but I know you mentioned it a few times about that part. Do you really feel like in regards to your ear, your rhythm and everything else was because of the way the the the the environment you grew up with the music, they kind of sort of like got you to be a little bit more natural as far as DJ? A thousand%. Yes. like the way the listening to music all the time and just dancing is literally why I think DJ is fitting for me if anything because it just it's easy like it becomes natural. Well, I mean obviously it took me time to get to I think like I'm you hear guys get I think I'm better now you know like I'm I'm more focused into like the flow, right? But once it becomes to a point where you're dejing and you're just talking like to someone, well, a lot of people come up and talk to you and it's like, "Come on, it's cool, right?" But once I get into that flow and that mindset where it's mindless, I'm like, "Okay, this is cool." Yeah. You know, it becomes less of a job. The job is everything else that you have to do business-wise, marketing, you know, sales, understanding business, building a CRM system, you know, a flow, sales order process, like everything. So, are you combining all the stuff you learned in college with your business essentially? Yes. Yes. And the biggest thing is connections. Yeah. Yeah. Networking. Do you do any networking at all or just in general when you about just connecting with people? But that's how we connected literally. That's exactly how we connected. and like the Cabba bar just chilling like that's how you walk in with your homies like hey what's up right and that's it that's it that's been it for me to be honest like uh like I said a little bit it's going to shift a little bit more um I have some ideas of how I want to focus on different styles of business because DJing alone like yes it's cool but what happens when you don't have for three months a private event because of something like okay what do we have as security as a back up essentially. And I I don't think there's different there's wrong there. It's wrong to like go to different channels. Sometimes it could be overwhelming, but as long as you keep them steady, I feel like anything is possible. Like the limit does not exist. Sorry, I'm about to cough. But for sure. Does it feel weird to be here on a Friday? No. Feels chill. Like you're missing out. No. Okay. So lately, last three months, I don't have a desire to go out because I just I really like want to just lock in. My friend Dora, she's like lock in for 6 months, 7 months, just work, work, work, and then you get to like enjoy like so I don't really have FOMO. You got tra uh traveling you want to do? Yes. Uh we're gonna I'm gonna internationally. I know you got Alabama, but internationally at all whatsoever. Uh, ideally I would like I am going to Mexico in July. Um, no, I'm going to uh San Louis Pto, a little town called Carbona. Say what's up to the homie over there. Oh, really? She's in the radio. Oh, she does internet radio. Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah, we're from a little Ranchito Carona. We're going to go there celebrate uh on 4th of July. So that's nice. hang out and then going skiing with my friend at the end of January and then hopefully at the end of the year go on a Europe trip. But that's awesome. Can't wait. All right, so we are short running short on time. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you for having me. Appreciate. Absolutely. Before I let you go once again, all your social media, where can people find you at? I don't know if you have website or wherever else they can find you at. Yeah, so my link tree is probably the best one. Instagram, but it's Tik Tok. They're all S O L S I S DJ. Um for Tik Tok, Instagram, and Linkree. And for booking as well to reach out to you. Yes. So, there's a link on my link tree for booking. Um you'll also see like YouTube videos. Um different options for cash and Venmo. No, I'm kidding. Cash. I did see them. They're there. Saludos. You have any saludos? Anybody you want to send shout outs to? Shout outs. A lot of them. obviously my family, my siblings, my brother, my grandmother, but definitely all the people that I've met. Um there's so many people that I've met that have helped me throughout this past year and the year before. I'm super grateful and it's all based off of energy and interactions and vibes. So, appreciate that. Awesome. Uh I think I asked a little bit of a a question, but let me just retouch this in case we missed anything. What is an important lesson that you learned during DJing or the DJ business that you would tell your younger self that will help somebody else out? What would that be? Yeah, definitely. Um, I would say yeah, starting your LLC and from the beginning organizing everything that has been I was probably 75% good at it. That 25 I recovered it for this year. but keeping on top of your expenses, um your mileage, like all those little details so it's easier at the end with taxes and just staying organized. I feel like organized and preparation. Yeah. Key, right? Can you relate? Like I feel like that's the most important thing. Uh do you use any app that's kind of so easier for you to use it to track everything or not necessarily just pencil? No, no. I use uh Honeybook as my CRM system. Uh I use my calendar as um She probably use it. She's organized as heck, too. Okay. Yes. Yes. Videographer, photographer, man. So, yeah, you know, you know, it is. So, I use that. And then, uh, my Google calendar, uh, everything is organized, colorcoded. Um, all my contacts, anything related to business, I have a yellow circle next to it. No. So, I know everything is like if it's a client because, you know, personal and it ends up mixing up the messages. So just literally staying organized um that way. No, that's great. No, it's a is a great skill to have to do it because you'll be stressed out biting your nails trying to figure it out and you I wish I was like that with the music at first and we wouldn't It's all good. It's okay. It's a lesson. It's a lesson. That's the reason why that's the thing about entrepreneurs, right? Even let's say people don't understand that you're it's an entrepreneur journey more also a DJ, right? Right. uh but they don't they don't maybe ponder those things about getting those things and a lot of people when they're entrepreneur whenever they do or decide to jump into something the one the number one thing that I found out about entrepreneurs is that they didn't know everything nor did they care to know everything but as they were advancing all of a sudden guess what all the knowledge started happening mess ups this and that maybe not some were very lucky that nothing ever happened but the only way they found out is until they started doing it, right? Then it makes sense for them to keep doing it and where they at now. It's kind of like no looking back. Yeah, pretty much. It's do or die, especially when your livelihood matters. And I like that pressure to be honest. That's true though. But that's the only way for you to get going with anything. Like if you're never like you're paralyzed about doing anything, you're never going to do anything. Just thinking about it, you're just going to be in the same spot instead of pulling the trigger to be able to want to do something. I feel like the risk was awesome because just within me owning a business, I've matured so much. Like it's been significant amount because I feel like with that responsibility comes a little bit more pressure into like shifting your mind of less of this and more of this. Okay. One question as a as a as a lady DJ, you know, I know you have some crazy drunk sometimes air and about, you know. Yeah, pretty lady. How do you maneuver all that stuff as far as like people maybe bad stories about people wanted to I don't know just weird approaches to you or things like Yeah, I mean I get them from guys. Um I think I'm I'm pretty assertive. Like I'm pretty like no bro. I hit them with the no bro and I'm like chill out. And it's really not hard for me to shut it down. Um, I think the most the most annoying part is when you would you tell someone, hey, like they ask for a request. I don't mind taking real requests, right? A request is a request. It's not a guaranteed, but I said, okay, yeah, let me think about it. Let me hear it. And if I say if it fits the vibe, I'll play it. Doesn't fit the vibe, but maybe I'll I'll I'm going to save it and my prepare. Maybe I'll throw it in later when it slows down. But they continuously come up to you or show you their phone like same thing. And I'm like, bro, like I'm not gonna play it now. Like that just makes me not even want to think about it. Well, the $20 uh help. Oh, yeah. A little $20 will help. A little 20 will help. A little hundred helps even more. And that's happened to me. Oh, a crazy story. Uhhuh. Drunk guy at a bar. bar. I'm not going to say which bar, but he literally was so intoxicated was throwing $100 bills and I was like, "No, bro. Take them back." Like, I don't not This is You're intoxicated, right? He's like, "No, no, take it. Take it." Like, you're so fire. Like, and I walked out with like $400, $500 just cash. That was that many he threw. No, he did. He seriously did. Everybody was grabbing it on the side or No, I mean, he was throwing it at me. Yeah, it was like a secluded area. That's cool. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Throw 100s on me, homie. I feel like girl DJs have a little advantage on that for sure. Yeah, I don't think guys are going to be rained on guys shirtless and muscular with a DJ. Maybe maybe he'll get some, you know. I got thrown one or tw dollar $1, $2. $2 are the lucky ones. So, you're good. I got like seven of them. Eight of them. 10 of them. I got 10 $2 bills. I'm super lucky. You're good. All right. So usually throughout my day, sometime during my week, I say something along the lines that I'm not immortal. I am mortal and I will die one day. Not to scare me or terrorize me, anything like that, right? It's a reality in life. We're not here forever. With that, it makes me hurry up and want to do things and and make things happen. With that, I wish you a very long prosperous life. After everything said and done, what do you want people to think and feel about your life? Oh, about like who I am as a person? As a person? Yeah, in general as a DJ, whatever you want them to take away from you that I am coming with genuine intentions and good energy and if we connect and I can be of service to you, like I'm going to put my best foot forward, um, I'm just excited to for people to see like who I am. Yeah. As a business owner, aside from the club scene and all that stuff. So, it's going to really show, you know, this upcoming year is really going to show me personally, not necessarily people in general, like who I am as a person, what I what I am, what responsibilities can I take on um even for the future family, like what I can provide. So, I don't know. I'm just overall nothing in general, but I'm overall excited just for myself to show showcase to myself that I can do it and that I'm capable of a lot of things. I can see you. You sound like a little firecracker that could make everything happen. Yes, basically. Do you think uh doing what DJing right now seem to be like a calling for you or do you think you're still fairly young to maybe in the future it will be something else that could be like a calling for you? Oh, I would say this is a passing for sure. Yeah. Um yes, I'm not going to stop doing this anytime soon, but I don't see myself DJing forever. Um not at 50 years old getting down with the senior for fun. For fun. That's fun. I as a business owner, no, I I definitely know um I feel like I'm slated to become uh somewhere in the medical field. Uh definitely probably a nurse. That's the direction that I'm going towards. But right now, I'm focused on the business. People go back to school all the time. Um but I am your business will have to be there if you structure it correctly for you to run. I mean, a business doesn't have to necessarily have you all the time. Oh, no. For sure. Because there's different outlets of Yeah. I mean there's all the kinds of DJs that don't know what to have the things you do and the connection you doing to be they need work and they'll be happy to take $500 $600 and whatever else is exactly. No. Yeah. So that this is because I want a family like I want to do all those things and awesome being a DJ probably takes away from that it does. Yeah. And it's tiring at times and it's not I mean shout out to the ones that been doing it for a long time but sometimes I'm like nah I'm good. I like it. I I DJ. Yeah. But I I hardly ever want to call myself a DJ. I never taken any courses or anything. I just been a lot more of like hands-on. Mess with a lot of DJs that know what they're doing. So I know how to have a I was shout out to my boy DJ Cream. Uh he hooked me up with a lot of music. Oh wow. Okay. Like 10,000 or more songs multiple times over. So I have like a couple drives of plenty of music for me too. Luckily I know the music to be able to jam out. Exactly. And luckily I can run my mount as an MC. So I have all the equipment and everything. The simplest whatever it doesn't matter but I can get a party done. Right. But I'm don't consider me a DJ DJ because I don't I know some of the DJ oldies they used to scratch and everything else and everything. And I again to each their own. Everyone has an opinion, right? Everybody has an opinion but to me it's just like I am a DJ cuz I know how to do it. I can knock it out. But when they say it like okay cool nothing like that. I feel like the mo the coolest uh thing that I heard was DJ is smooth transitions and energy carrier. Like that's it. like you could and playing the song at the the best song at the right time. Y a lot of DJs that are good I feel like just have wonderful selection, wonderful process of getting organized and playing the right song at the right time and knowing the crowd. Yep. Transitions smooth. But I mean scratching those are those are obviously like amazing skills that OGs have and I'm like still learning these things. But I feel like to call yourself a DJ, I think be professional and like clean work. True. That too. What do you think about the sync button? Dope. The sync. Oh, I love the sync button. I use it and I don't use it. I use There's cool ways of using it. I've seen you work with the Yeah. Like if you sync two tracks and you know one is half of it and the you want to speed it up to the you know like you can use it to where it builds up tension, brings down tension on both tracks. Yep. There's different ways to use it. Different ways for sure. As long as you know how to beat match, right? That's the thing, right? That's true, too. And uh we are pretty much uh done. Thank you so much for for the time again. It was pretty neat uh to be able to just run into it randomly at at I think it was on a Saturday or whatever day it was during the day and it was during the day and I was like oh that's pretty cool that she does that. But I know a few DJ homies, we try to connect something together, but it's never happened. But I just noticed after we connect and we follow each other, I like, man, this girl is busy like all the time. and just your energy in general as far as like your mentality as far as what you want to do with it instead of just like being DJ and playing music cuz it's cool instead of like there's one thing about the mentality of you knowing the responsibility you have because somebody's getting married and there their more important most important day of their life and a lot of people might just like oh whatever but you're part of that whole thing and the fact that you care for it says a lot more about you than other people. They're just there just to do the job and that's that. You know what I mean? And I love love. So, absolutely. And without a shout of doubt, DJ Sis, you are a global landing factor. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you. I appreciate you. This was another episode of the Global Latin Factor podcast. Remember to subscribe right now. Why? Again, you have nothing to lose and so much to gain like these amazing stories that we are showcasing right now. And remember, we are just like you. We are people. We are the spice and flavor in this melting pot that is the world. Till next time. Bye.