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DJ FloFader

New Mexico

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DJ FLO FADER, aka Roscoe Price Floyd, was born October 21, 1976 in Savannah, GA. He was raised in the Northeast NJ and NY. Roscoe’s musical influence was mostly from his step dad, Emanuel Lois Turner, who was the lead guitarist for a funk band called Electrified Funk.

 

At the age of fifteen in 1992, Flo Fader moved to Atlanta, GA and was introduced to turntablism by his friend Josh Winkler, aka DJ KLEVER. A year later, he returned to New Jersey. Roscoe had transformed himself to Flo Fader. Growing up with a Hip Hop background, the Northeast was the best place to absorb it all. Flo Fader analyzed DJs like Mr. Sinista, Roc Raida, Grandmaster Flash, Chuck Chillout, Marley Marl, and Q-bert for their arrangements in scratching, mixing, music selection, and presentation.

 

 In 1998 Flo Fader moved to the Bronx,NY to worked for Seven Heads Ent. as Head of College Radio Promotion. While working at Seven Heads Ent. Flo Fader met J-live and his DJ at the time DP-one. During a session DP-one asked Flo Fader if he’d like to take his place tour djing for J-live. Flo Fader agreed and became J-live’s tour DJ. Five years had past and Flo Fader went back to working the DJ circuit in Manhattan. He was then approached by Punchline of ,Punch n Words, about tour DJing for EMC. By the next month he was on tour with EMC. Masta Ace, a member of EMC then asked if he could work for him as his personal tour DJ Flo Fader excepted and toured with one of the most prolific Mc’s to touch the mic. While on tour with J-live, EMC, and Masta Ace, Flo Fader toured the world in places such as: Croatia, Canada,  Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Iceland, Portugal, France, Holland, UAE, and Africa.

 

Flo Fader is currently living in Albuquerque, NM and DJ’s at  Burts Tiki Lounge, Imbibe Cigar Bar, Club Warehouse Buffalo Thunder, NV Nightlife, and Nob Hill Bar & Grill. He also teaches DJ 101 classes at the Bosque Private School.

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