I caught the DJ bug back when I was 12 years old. My dad came home from WestPac with a Karaoke JVC K99 Stereo, which was a double cassette player that had a tape speed feature, so it made it possible for me to transition from one song to another. A couple of years later, my cousin purchased a pair of Realistic turntables with a mixer from Radio Shack, and I was able to get my first experience mixing on turntables. From then on, I deejayed school lunches, dances, house parties, and family events with my cousin and a few of our friends. When I was 22, one of my friends who was deejaying at a few clubs at the time had me show up to one of his gigs, and he let me deejay with him that night. For the next two years, I was able to deejay at different venues, being in a rotation with other deejays. In late 1999, I decided to start my own mobile DJ business.