Jay Strongman

Jay Strongman is a DJ, music writer and author born and bred in the UK and now a resident of California. A one-time soul boy, Bowie fan, punk rocker and rockabilly, he started his DJ career in 1982 playing a groundbreaking mixture of jump blues, funk, reggae and early hip-hop. For the last forty years he’s DJ’d around the globe including being the first western DJ to play a warehouse party in the then Soviet Union. A New York Magazine dubbed him. “One of the best DJs in the world” in 1984. He was also a resident DJ on London’s KISS FM during its pirate years and once it became a legal radio station. His writing career includes working for NME, The Face, Vogue, i-D Magazine, and publishing two books on popular culture (Tiki and Steampunk) and a detective novel set in 1950s LA.