About

More than two decades looking at dance floors.

I started as an assistant at a DJ agency that did wedding parties. From there, I moved into DJing weddings and birthdays myself — and it was still in that phase, at a wedding with 150 guests in a space too big for the crowd that had shown up, that the moment happened that changed how I see this work. You know that feeling that something isn't going to work?

That's when I started to notice that music was only part of the equation. The space mattered too. And the people mattered even more: who had come, from where, with whom, what they shared, and how much room they had to actually meet each other.

It didn't happen from one party to the next. It was understanding, over the years, what really made a difference on a dance floor, that the way I prepare took the shape it has today.

That understanding grew beyond home too. Living for periods in Vermont, in the United States, and twice in Brisbane, Australia — not passing through, but actually being inside those places — taught me how differently people carry their music depending on where they're from. The weddings I've played in Paris, Miami, Tuscany, Mykonos, Buenos Aires, and Cancún kept confirming it: different crowds hold different references, and they respond to music differently too. I didn't read that in a book — I learned it one dance floor at a time.

Today, after more than 1,500 weddings, I keep doing this in Brazil and in destination weddings. Every party is different because the people are different — and maybe that's exactly what still makes me love this work.