SPINNIN’ ROUND BABY RIGHT ‘ROUND
DJ Wayne G has played pretty much every major venue
around the world and has remixed music for every major diva around. Current remixes that have hit the Billboard Dance Charts were for Carly Rae Jepsen (“Tonight I’m Getting Over You”) and Katy Perry (“Wide Awake”), but he has literally done everyone; Cher, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue, Christina Aguilera, Celine Dion, the Backstreet Boys, Deborah Cox, Whitney Houston, Darren Hayes, Erasure, Kelis, Olive, Holly Johnson, Jimmy Somerville, Andy Bell and Belinda Carlisle, and we haven’t even scratched the surface. It doesn’t look like he’s slowing down one bit, last year alone he hit Sydney Mardi Gras, White Party Palm Springs, San Francisco Pride, Destination in Beijing, Vancouver Pride, Angel in Shanghai, Fire Island, Southern Decadence and San Diego Zoo Party, amongst many others. He’s had several firsts as well in the last few years; in
2013 he was asked to be the DJ at The Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, the first Gay DJ to play the prestigious party. He also mixed two hot tracks for the year’s hot Broadway Musical,Kinky Boots featuring Billy Porter. Not a bad year, but I have to say, I’m exhausted just trying to comprehend his schedule.
by joel martens photos by rikke photography
THE NEWLY ARRIVED SAN DIEGO RESIDENT TOOK A MINUTE TO TALK ABOUT, WELL PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING:
So you started in London in the mid-1990s, correct? The ‘70s, more like (laughs).
Give me a break. That’s more my era. (Laughs) I started DJ’ing in ’95 and I landed the
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residency at Heaven in London. Which is still open, right? Yeah, but it’s changed hands. A club called G-A-Y
now owns it, which was a separate club in of itself. I don’t think they call it Heaven anymore, which I think is a terrible shame. Heaven had been there since 1979. Its capacity was, I think, 2500. It was the larg- est gay club in the world. They got into some kind of financial trouble and they sold to G-A-Y. So I vowed
not to go back in there. So many of those long-standing clubs are disappearing. It’s kind of sad to me to see them go. It seems like the dance world is going through a major transition. Yeah, it is, for sure. It’s a weird time because they
can’t seem to make it. The scene is going back to smaller clubs, especially in the U.K. Here in America, I’m not quite sure where it’s heading. I don’t want to say that it’s dying, but even in L.A., it seems
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