DJ Lejla

Lejla moved to the United States in '93 as a refugee from war-torn
Bosnia. Despite many obstacles and immense responsibilities, she
graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1998 and plans to continue her studies towards a doctorate and fulfill her longtime dream of becoming a marine biologist.

Since Lejla's extraordinary feats in the states, she has also taken an
overwhelming interest in the arts after being introduced to House music in 1995 at a legendary full moon party in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. She loved the way the basslines moved her and spent countless hours dancing and watching the DJs perform their magic!

Once she acquired turntables in April of 1999, she began blowing the minds of everyone who witnessed her spin and has been rocking parties ever since! Lejla's style is an amazing blend of sexy deep tribal and dark and dirty house mixed with technical precision. Her signature sound is tribal funk and has been strongly influenced by SF's greatest pioneer DJ's such as Tony, Jeno, Garth, Simon, Rick Preston and Tracy. She has spun along side DJ greats such as Simon, Spun, Joshua, Harry Who, Ellen Ferrato, Tracy, Charlotte The Baroness and many others at 26 MiX, END UP, Amnesia, BIG LOVE @ KZSU, and Livedjs.com in San Francisco.

Lejla recently relocated to New York City where she Co-founded, along with MC Linzee, the NYC chapter of the infamous all-female DJ crew "Sister SF", in April of 2002. Since moving to New York she has landed gigs at Halcyon, Drinkland, Level X, Opaline and True and her latest CD "Midnight Express" has been blowing up radio stations abroad in Bosnia and Croatia. Lejla loves to travel and has performed in Italy, at Club Juice in Florence as well as Boca Chica in Viareggio. Lejla also has been invited back to Italy and Bosnia in summer of 2003.

Contact Lejla for bookings at djlejla@hotmail.com