Hey Girl Gang Music!
Welcome back to another BOMB interview session with Top 10 DJane, DJ Da Candy.
In her busy schedule, the one and the only DJ Da Candy took some time out to talk with our Girl Gang Music community on getting started, staying focused, collaborating, and new projects coming soon!
She has collaborated with Lil Debbie, Justin Prime (multiplatinum producer and DJ), Dev (multi-platinum singer and songwriter), Lil Eddie (LA X-Factor Coach, multiplatinum songwriter), Nathaniel (Swizz Beatz songwriter), Ninnos Hanna (Maroon 5 songwriter), The Jackie Boyz (multi-platinum songwriters), Juicy M, and more.
If you want to learn about the process of a successful artist, keep reading below to explore what this master music producer has accomplished, hopes for, and practices.
Read our Q&A with DJ Da Candy, in full, below:
Girl Gang Music: How did you get into music? (We love to tell this part of your story so folks just getting started can know there are so many ways to get into the industry.)
DJ Da Candy: “My grandfather is a musician, so he taught me playing piano and all the harmony theory. Back into 2011, I was in an RnB band, where we had 4 people in it including me, singing and making hip hop music. We had tours and performances in our country at the clubs, and I always wanted to make music and make it famous all over the world. That pushed me on to thoughts to become a DJ and play my music at my gigs, and that’s what I did. My friend was a techno DJ, and he suggested to take his Technics MK 2 and his Pioneer 2 Channel Mixer and start following my goals.
At first, I was trying to mix all the underground heavy techno music on vinyls at home. Later, I then bought a SERATO and a laptop to start mixing some hip-hop music from there. A few months from there, I had my first gig at the local club in Kyiv, and I was more than super excited.
A few years later when I started touring, I started producing music in Logic Pro X, first it was mashups and bootlegs and after that I started to make my own beats and music; I released my first track “LOVE ME LOUD”