Fonki Cheff is a DJ/record collector from Benicarló, Castellón. His style is varied and eclectic to unsuspected limits, mixing styles as diverse as rumba, funk, disco, and boogaloo, with a predilection for black dance music.
In his sessions he reaches total complicity with the public through his mixing and scratch technique, making the crowd dance without even realizing that it is changing both the style and the musical era. During the 7 years in London, together with the 6 years in the United States and the countless trips to Cuba, South America, North Africa, and all of Europe, the record suitcase of this inveterate music lover is full of classics and oddities, making his sessions a trip around of the world through its music.
From the beginning, his references were the pioneers of what later came to be called hip hop, such as Grand Master Flash, Afrika Bambaata, and DJ Kool Herc, who showed the world new techniques, using turntables as an instrument and the way in which they began to rescuing songs forgotten by the general public, presenting them in an innovative way, these techniques are what led him to become champion of the Valencia Redbull Thre3styles of 2011 and Spanish national finalist in that same year.
In 2003, together with Suzuki Zuriaga and Stupendo Kalamar, they formed Rocksteady Beatz, which was the pioneering turntablism group in Valencia to carry out the sessions with 4 turntables and two mixing tables simultaneously, during ten years that the training lasted, they carried out intense work in clubs. and festivals. Now, during the pandemic, he opened his own online DJ school helping other DJs to improve their scratching and mixing.
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