Celeste Alexander knows what it means to dare to do more… A wife, a mother, a DJ and label co-owner, Celeste manages to balance these responsibilities while delivering and creating some of the deepest, soulful, mixes In today’s house music landscape. Celeste was named as one of Chicago's top 100 Architects & influential DJ's in Chicago House music in 2011. She was also just recently awarded the "Frankie Knuckles Lifetime achievement" award In the 2015 class DJ Hall of Fame at Chicago's Chosen Few Picnic 25 year anniversary celebration. 34 years ago, while other women were watching the game, Celestethedj Alexander dared to step into the game. “When I first started playing public I would wear baggy clothes and a baseball cap so the people wouldn’t know it was a female playing. After I got them dancing I would take off the sweat shirt, and baseball cap so they could see that they were dancing to a female playing. I love the shock factor!”