“I’ve always loved music,” he said. “It’s something that I’ve always gone to, whether I’m really happy or sad or if I want to go to the gym or if I want to just chill out at home. Any kind of emotion that I’m going through is always in some kind of song and that’s been my go-to. The first time I walked into a gay dance club, I just remember being so captivated by the dance floor and the club beat and everything I felt. From then on I wanted to pursue it.” Pursue it he did, using the dance clubs as a means to learn how he too could
bring music to the masses. “I started to buy all the dance songs I was hearing; I was hearing music that I had never heard before,” Gauthreaux explained about his genesis. “And finally, I had enough music to where I thought...‘Maybe I could put this together.’ I begged one of the DJ’s to show me how to do it, because back then there was no way of downloading any kind of software or anything and he took the time to show how me how to do it a few hours a week,” he said. “I started to make tapes and send them out to the clubs in New Orleans. Finally Oz New Orleans called up and they hired
me...And the rest was built from there.” From that start, he decided it was time to spread his wings and leave the birthplace of jazz and to take a bite out of the Big Apple. “New York’s always one of those place that I saw on TV and I thought, ‘I want to live there when I’m older!’ Finally, when I was 22, I took a trip with some friends and it as everything I thought it would be and more,” Gauthreaux stated. “I was going to move there in 2001 and 9/11 happened, so it was a weird time to move. After the following year, after things had calmed down a little bit, I finally moved. I love this city, there is always so much going on.” While New York City serves as home base, one of the perks of his job is that he
gets to travel the globe doing what he loves. “The best part of DJ’ing is getting to travel around and play for people all over the world,” he opined. “I’ve played Asia, Brazil and Europe; but mostly I like playing in the U.S. That’s where I know most of the people on the dancefloor and it’s my home country. Gauthreaux did however, try his hand at being a West Coast transplant, but it
just didn’t take. “I moved to Los Angeles for three years in 2008,” he explained. “A lot of my friends live in L.A., and honestly I had a really bad snow-filled wintertime here, maybe I just needed to get out of the city. Not that I didn’t love L.A., but I wound up missing New York a lot. We all get restless sometimes, whether it’s our job or maybe a relationship; we always think maybe there’s something else out there. Sometimes, you actually have to see what else is out there to actually realize how much you love where you came from.”
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