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Pinkie Tuscadero is the best DJ you have never heard of...

Born & raised in the Bronx, she always had a love for music, from listening to her mother's old 45's on her phonograph as a child to watching her mom's friend play in his studio as a teenager. Her passion eventually lead to practicing on her ex's Technics 1200SL's as a young woman. Since then, she has been doing it as a hobby for over 10 years, starting out as a co-host alongside South African DJ Dr. Griff on the Strictly House Podcast in 2008 and later with her own podshow, A Touch of Pink. She also did a couple of guest spots on SSRadioUK.

It wasn't until 2010, with a little push from colleauges and peers, that she has decided to go pro, thanks to her huge feedback of her mixes. She has started out locally at a club in Newark and has been called for bookings ever since.

Aside from being a DJ, she is also a budding journalist, starting out as a contributing writer on the webmagazine 1200dreams.com then branched out with her own blog called Memoirs of A Party Girl, which consists of independent music, media, artist interviews, fashion, special events, nightlife culture and speaks of such issues as police brutality, self-esteem/image of young girls and hip hop and reviving New York City's ailing nightlife. She is also a contributing writer for Media Services NYC and has conducted interviews with Sonny Fodera, Todd Terry, DJ Tendaji Lathan, Ron Carroll, rising pop/dance star, Trish, and many more. She also has covered numerous events such as the Perry Ellis Fall 2011 show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and LA Laker Matt Barnes' Athletes vs. Cancer silent auction & fundraiser.

During her these short years of her career, she has encountered many people such as Louie & Anane Vega, David Morales, Perry Ellis designer John Crocco, Venexiana designer Kati Stern, celebrity stylist Geary Marcello, Flipmode Squad's Rampage (which she considers a good friend), hip hop duo Smif N Wessun, Carl Cox, Hector Romero, Soul II Soul's Aitch Bee, Swedish House Mafia's Axwell, General Hospital soap star Sean Blakemore and more.

She has recently helped out as DJ/Road Manager for international dance diva Barbara Tucker on her summer European tour and is preparing herself for her first professional gig in London and her first single out on Soul Providers' Jason Brooks' new Futuro label.

She is slowly coming out of her shell, but there is great things coming for this woman. Watch this flower as she continues to blossom!

It probably all began with the old R & B dusties of his mother, Tyree Cooper was impassionedly listening to. Growing up on the streets of Chicago’s South Side Tyree Cooper discovered his love for the soul music of the 60ies. A first step was to join his Grammar school band at the age of 13 – playing the flute! His other passion at that time was playing basketball.

Both passions followed him to the high school where he met Mike Dunn and learned how to DJ. Listening to Farley “Jackmaster Funk”, “ The Hot Mix 5“, Ronny Hardy and the electrifying energies of Frankie Knuckles, Tyree was well schooled at an early age. Eventually Tyree’s basketball skills awarded him at scholarship to the University of Wisconsin -Stout where the bourgeoning mixing skills were fine tuned.

Two years after college Tyree was already one of the most popular and highly sought-after DJs in Chicago. Then Vince Lawrence, of the garage funk band “Jesse Gang“ (founded by Jesse Saunders) persuaded Tyree to put together a demo tape of his music to start a career as a recording artist.

From now on it was only a question of time before signing the first record deal with the Chicago-based underground label D.J. International – that was in 1986. The first 12″ – “I Fear The Night“ (with female vocalist ‘Chic’) – promptly became an underground classic in Chicago. Other hits followed: “Acid Over“(1988), “Turn Up The Bass“ (1988/89),“’Let’s Get Hyped“ (feat. Kool Rock Steady, 1989), “Let the Music Take Control“(1989) and “Hardcore Hip House“(1989).

That was the time when Tyree Cooper created a crossover version of house music together with his friend and fellow DJ ‘Fast Eddie’ Smith and which was known as hip house. It then caused a furor on the hip hop scene, while today rap vocals are a common feature of the commercial house scene.

Tyree Cooper is now regarded as one of the most influential artists in the international house scene. Already looking back to a respectable discography Cooper founded his own label in 2002: Supa Dupa Recordings. Later one of the most important hip house tunes was released on Epic with the original and some new remix versions: “Turn Up The Bass“, which is surely one of the most important hip house tracks of all times.

Other remixing highlights and hits were undoubtedly Fast Eddie “Yo! Yo! Get Funky“, “It`s Alright” from the Pet Shop Boys and the Mixmasters “In the Mix“ which was featured in Madonna’s Truth or Dare. True to the scene Tyree still lives in Chicago spreading his roots also in Europe’s exciting capitol Berlin – doing what he does best…. spinning and traveling to Europe for gigs and producing new tracks on his own record label Supa Dupa Records and of course together with shik stylkö for realbasic recordings.