DJ Hansell Leyva is the latest in a line of skyrocketing success stories bred out of the Miami EDM scene. Born and raised in Cuba, he began touring with his father, a member of the world renowned Ballet Lirico Nacional de Holguin. Traveling the globe, and seeing the power that art and music brought to the audience every night, was the inspiration that propelled him toward his own creative vision.

His early studies focused primarily on dance and performance art, with numerous appearances featured on National and International stages, from television to film. His dance career was cut short at the age of 19, when he tore his ACL ligament in his left knee. The devastation he suffered over the loss of a dance career was only made bearable with the sound of music. "It was the music that got me through" Leyva says. It was the one inescapable constant in his life, through his families struggles to emigrate to the US, and his parents divorce, through life's daily struggles, and the loss of h