DJ Celeste's unshakable love for music, art and performance has led her to spend nearly two decades dedicated to studying the art and science of DJing, music production and music theory With an impressive set of career highlights including, 13+ years as a mobile event, festival & nightclub DJ, providing sound equipment for & DJ/MCing over 600+ events, acquiring over $25k worth of sound, lighting and DJ equipment, meticulously collecting and cataloging over 23,000 songs in almost all genres, developing a knack for climactic, seamless song mixing, eclectic and inspirational curation and reading a diverse crowd, releasing 5 solo albums and amassing millions of plays of her original music on Spotify, Pandora, etc., Celeste possesses a never ending enthusiasm for providing a top notch experience for her listeners and can say that she is proud to help represent today's modern, driven female in the entertainment industry. As a Virtual Reality Artist, Celeste has spent the last year in a deep dive in the blossoming VR world learning how to tap the current, most cutting edge technology for design and performance to be able to create exciting, fully immersive performance environments. Truly the future of entertainment, where visionary DJs not only play the music, but also conceptualize and design their own festival type stages and visuals. She has logged thousands of hours designing 3D modeled art, stages and visual effects for various VR platforms including WaveXR, which is one of the leading futuristic nightclubs. She is also a regular guest DJ with TribeXR. Musically, Celeste is a bit of a chameleon with many changing colors, but emphasizes keeping the sound hip, energized, sophisticated and accessible. Celeste craftily mixes everything from the hottest high energy Deep/Tech/Bass House to Top 40/Pop/EDM hits. Indie Dance and Nu-Disco, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s classics, Hip Hop, Funk/Soul and super creative Mash Ups and Remixes. She has a special passion for unique and edgy Trap, Glitch-hop, tribal and Bass Music and closely follows all the best, most cutting edge new underground and mainstream music producers. Celeste is a regular guest DJ for wildly popular international dance group Ecstatic Dance and takes pride in working to ensure that her listeners have an uplifting, energizing and cathartic experience on the dance floor. As a music producer, Celeste has had over 100 placements of her music on television & film including most notably Fox’s wildly popular “So You Think You Can Dance” as well as various shows on VH1, the Fashion One Network, HBO, SONY, Discovery Channel and MTV. Celeste owns and operates her own recording studio and independent record label with 6 current album releases and countless remixes and mash-ups. *Another interesting note is that Ms. Lear is the granddaughter of the 8-Track Cassette (and Lear Jet) inventor William P. Lear. Definitely one with music bred right into her genes! Some of DJ Celeste’s Regular Clients Include: • W Hotels, Google, Apple, MOMA SF, SFO, Banana Republic, Warner Brothers, The Gap, Ecstatic Dance International, Oracle, The Exploratorium S.F., Max Mara, Ecstatic Dance, Yelp, Twitter, Oracle, Cybex, Fredericks of Hollywood, Macy’s, Neiman Marcus. #DJCeleste #MusicProducer #VirtualRealityArt #TheespotwithCamille #CamilleKauer #BurningMan #bassmusic #altspacevr
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