It's been two years since I released a mix. This is for late night drives, late night loving AND late nights thinking about your crush.. for sexy time with your boo AND sexy time with yourself. Sexy & soulful tunes mixed with love-because love is everywhere. Enjoy. 🤭 click to listen SUBSCRIBE Let's Dance! I can finally share I'm playing my first set at Moneygun's Sidedoor this month! It's very important to me that Chicago has more places to hear a diversity of African music on any given...
6 days ago • 1 min read
If your Threads feed looks anything like mine, you are hurriedly scrolling through several verbal boxing matches between mostly Nigerian artists & Afrobeats lovers and South African artists & Amapiano lovers. Before I jump into this topic, I encourage you to read my newsletters from two years ago, where I pondered what the future of Afrobeats and Amapiano would sound like, and how I don't love "afropiano". The "Best African Performance" category at The Grammys was announced in 2023, with...
13 days ago • 4 min read
Happy (maybe, not-so-happy? the world is still going to 💩) New Year! Last year was a doozy for me but I keep coming back to how I accomplished so many things, like launching my first solo event series dyasphonic, securing some amazing cannabis partnerships, and traveling more. It's surely been hard for me to celebrate with the constant violence and incompetence our current administration is inflicting on people in this country, but nonetheless I hope you're finding ways to remain grounded and...
26 days ago • 1 min read
Time flies huh? After a high-energy, supersonic party last month, dyaṣphönic.dance returns for another journey of sound this Saturday! If you've missed the first two, it's not too late to secure your spot at Dyaspara's sonic den! The DJs for our next party have unique energies that play deeply into sound AND story. I can't wait for you to hear and feel how these two artists' sets connect! Dyaspara is a cultural connector who lives to learn and reflect on the beauty, vastness, and...
9 months ago • 1 min read
Unless you've been living under a rock I'm sure you've seen an outpour of DJ sets on your TikTok, Instagram Reels feed and YouTube homepages at coffee shops, in living rooms, and every other place that is NOT a club. It, one, speaks to most people's frustrations with nightclubs + club culture: overpriced drinks, expensive sections, and everyone feeling a little bit too cool to move on the dancefloor. Secondly, I think, it's a #recessionindicator that forces event producers like myself to not...
9 months ago • 2 min read
When I first started DJing I had no idea how much joy it'd bring me and how helpful it'd be for me in expressing myself. The realest ish I ever heard was when Jay-Z rapped, "I can't see it coming down my eyes, so I gotta make the song cry,".. A WORD! But even more than that, the greatest gift of this creative career has been the community of women and femme sound selectas and event producers I've gained! It may shock you, but even in 2025, people are surprised to see me and other women DJs...
10 months ago • 2 min read
I don't think I have the words to fully explain how amazing the first edition of dyaṣphönic.dance was earlier this month! You'd think after organizing events for years I'd be less anxious, but no. It was my first solo event and my nerves were all over the place, but all was MORE than well! I really want to thank our DJs Bonita Appleblunt and Cobra B, our event sponsor Bayab Gin (those drinks were amazing and y'all knew it by the way you bought them OUT!), and lastly all of you who came and...
10 months ago • 1 min read
Happy *actual* New Year to you and yours! Spring has sprung, and I'm sure, like myself, you've been navigating a lot through these multitudes of mercury retrogrades, venusian reverses (or whatever their called), etc. etc. that the planets have us down here suffering through. I admittedly had been having one of the roughest times of my life last month (hello eclipsing saturn's return), which made it incredibly difficult and complicated to share something I've been long been dreaming up and...
11 months ago • 3 min read
Happy New Year to you (if you celebrate January as such)! My personal new year is Spring, but I'm down for whatever reminds us that each new day is a new opportunity to try again. Which is why you're hearing from me. It's been a minute since we last typed: TikTok was still scrollable, my name was "Diaspora" (it's now Dyaspara, pronounced the same), he who will not be named was not entering office, there was no Kendrick Lamar vs Drake beef (at least publicly), and who had even heard of a...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read