DJ SoulKid got his first gigs in the late 80's during the first wave of the techno-rave invasion in clubs and underground warehouse parties in the Southeast. Being from Florida, SoulKid was influenced strongly by going to the now legendary Orlando clubs, Aahz, Mars, The Abyss, The Edge, and Barbarella, and hearing the up and coming djs of back then, like Kimball Collins, Andy Hughes, DJ Icee (now DJ Icey), D-Xtreme, Baby Anne, etc.
Wanting to promote the progressive house/trance and funky breaks sounds of Florida, he started holding parties in South Carolina and Georgia, where he exposed just that. With that kind of publicity, he started getting notoriety and was sharing the "wheels of steel" with the likes of Scott Henry, Charles Feelgood, Keoki, On-e (from Dee-Lite), Andy Hughes, etc., and acts like Ministry of Sound, Cosmic Baby, Moby, Prodigy, Lords of Acid, Dee-Lite, and Orbital. With more and more underground parties popping up, he was spinning at venues from the East coast to the West Coast, including huge events that were milestones, like Ravestock and OuterStellar Outback. As icing on his growing dj'ing career, promoters were booking him at international venues as well, playing in Tokyo, in Thailand, and recently in Manila, Philippines, and in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Along with these events, he hosted and DJ'ed his own college radio show for five years at WSBF at Clemson University in Clemson, SC. He further enhanced his production abilities at the station by becoming Production Manager for two years, then becoming the Dance College Music Director, and ultimately the Head College Music Director. He was featured in several local newspapers as a budding underground talent. With a business mind set now, he started expanding his relationships that went beyond raves and clubs. Record stores, skate shops, and clothing stores, especially California's DJ Liquid's store Remix, sponsored many of his underground parties as a way to promote this new "underground culture".
When he finished college with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics, he went to graduate school to study Software Engineering but found Information Technology to be the true calling for his technical skills. So he decided to move to Silicon Valley to be in the hub of the tech boom to advance his technical skills as well as a chance to further promote the Florida sounds of breakbeats.
In San Francisco, SoulKid founded the monthly event Delicious at 550 Barneveld, where again he obtained Florida djs like Huda Hudia to help increase the Florida influence in the West Coast. To catch an even wider audience, he became an online internet resident DJ for LiveDJs.com based out of San Francisco for a weekly series called Electromagnetic.
He then moved to Seattle, where he is still on the path of spreading more of the Florida beats to the Pacific Northwest. He has also now begun doing production work on original tracks and remixes with great colloboration with Martin Fischer aka Sonny Chiba and DJ LaOBoYy. With the next step in production already begun, SoulKid has proven to be a veteran DJ and an innovator of what's to come in the future.
A long time friend DJ Fixx of Bottom-End and AfterDark records from Florida reconnected with SoulKid after his move to Seattle, and DJ Fixx liked what he saw in SoulKid's determination in bringing the Funky Breaks sound to the Pacific Northwest. DJ Fixx offered and approved SoulKid to keep pushing the Florida sound of Breaks by pushing not only his Bottom-End and AfterDark records but also his AfterDark artists, like Factor-E and J-Break. "SoulKid will have a presence for us Florida DJs here in the Pacific NorthWest." -DJ Fixx
With Seattle as his home now, SoulKid has become a staple in the Seattle music scene for three years. Regarded as the Pacific NorthWest Florida Funky Breaks King, SoulKid brings non-stop breakbeat anthems to the dancefloor. Blending Miami bass and catchy female vocal hooks, he works the crowd to a frenzy and then some! Without a doubt, SoulKid moves the Soul.
