DJ SMILES DAVIS!

September 2010!
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DJ Smiles Davis got her start in the music industry as a professional dancer having nurtured
her talent as a performer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, she also worked with
Lauryn Hill as a movement coach and back up dancer for Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliot. She
soon discovered her talents on the wheels of steel and began acquiring early fans for her
impeccable music sense. Several years working at legendary Indi record store Amoeba
helped cement DJ Smiles Davis deep knowledge of music. Her transformation from
professional dancer to DJ was a natural artistic progression that started when she was injured.
Her rehabilitation led her to the turntables and there has been no turning back.

Her eclectic mix tape series Many Styles has garnered her a large international fan base. The
many styles mix series seamlessly blends Soul, Electronica, Rock, Hip Hop and anything else
Smiles wants to play in a most unique way that only a true music visionary could. The
feedback from the mix series has been phenomenal from a very diverse cross section of
people from all walks of life. Among these fans are many of the industries elite tastemakers.
Some cool quotes on the mix, Talib Kweli “This is Dope!” Giant Step founder Maurice
Bernstein “ She is Great” DJ Skeet Skeet “Man this mixtape is awesome!” and from Violet
Brown urban music buyer at Trans World “Love love her music, she is really talented!

Some of the highlights of Smiles still young career include a national McDonald’s commercial
in which Smiles was featured along side nationally popular DJ Felli Fel. Smiles has opened up
for an array of amazing artists and DJ’s including Z-Trip, Questlove, Erykah Badu, Janelle
Monae, Mayer Hawthorne, The Very Best, GZA, Fools Gold, Macy Gray, Bruno Mars, 9th
Wonder, Mixmaster Mike, DJ Muggs,, Major Lazor, DJ Rashida etc. Smiles has done events
for Stevie Wonder, Ed Norton, Nike, Fox Searchlight, Saks Fifth Ave, Bloomingdales, Armani
Exchange, Miss Sixty, LAX ART, WPS , Activision, Puma, NAACP, Fatima Robinson, Flaunt,
Elle, Wax Poetics, Frank 151, Urb, Manifest Equality, Okay Player, Disney and the LA
Notorious Première.

Smiles continues to build her personal brand doing her first mixtape for an artist as she crafts
the backdrop to super successful indi DC rapper Tabi Bonney’s next mixtape. She has started
work on her first album of original production featuring different artists from all over the world
and Smiles also now has a popular music blog on her old employer Amoeba records website.
TV
National McDonald’s commercial
with DJ Felli Fell

Press
Nah right
Hypebeast
La times
Urb
Paper magazine
Kjlh (featured mix)
Elitaste
Cobrasnake
Musik please
Vimby Residences
Beatlife
The Standard
Beyond Race Magazine The Viper Room
The Crow Bar
Clients include Social
Disney Hotel Shangri La
AFI Scorpion Bar
Audi
Puma
High profile gigs
Nike Stevie Wonder & Kai Milla at Saks
Pro Tools Opening up for ?uestlove
Power 106 DJ Hero launch party Z-Trip + Fab 5 Freddy
Fox searchlight AFI Festival
Bloomingdales
Portable Payback of Jurassic 5 CD release
Flaunt Mixmaster Mike – mixtape riot
A-list Erykah Badu Jam Session
Naacp Notorious film premiere
Lovemade Next Day Air film premiere
Summit Ent.
Gza album release party
Fatima Robinson – website launch party
LA Sol Championship after party
Fox King + Ole writers camp wrap party
 “This is dope,”
- Talib Kweli

”This is Awesome"
- DJ Skeet Skeet

”She’s great! Want her for

something in NY!"
- Maurice Bernstein, Giant Step

"fire!!...her mixes have grown

light years since the last one!"
- DJ 88
”love love love her music…very
talented..she has some sick mixes.."
- Violet Brown head of urban music Transworld
“DJ Smiles Davis sets the tone of Many Styles Vol. 3 with a plea by a caller to “have
some music now.” Preach! Happily obliges, blurring across pop, soul, rap and funk
with ease, mixing old and new in a way that is uniquely refreshing. While the
brilliant pairing of “Day N Nite” (Kid Cudi) with “Young Folks” (Peter Bjorn and
John) is all well and good, it’s the inclusion of criminally overlooked soul selections
by outfits like Poets of Rhythm, Pure Essence and Cymande that complete this chill
and complex mixtape. “ - Nekoro Gomes, BRM

 For Booking:!
Paul.Stewart@next-thing.com!