DJ NEVA

DJ Neva grew up in New York City and formally studied piano and voice at the Greenwich House Music School and the Hebrew Arts School for Music and Dance, as well as private instruction. She earned her first degree in Ethnomusicology in 1978, and has been studying and educating others about World Music ever since.

She spent the decade of the 1980s producing some of the first reggae concerts in New York City; conducting field research in Central America and the Caribbean, and organizing first-time U.S. tours for a number of musicians she met along the way. When she re-settled in New York in 1990, she brought her extensive knowledge and love of World Music to the airwaves - producing "Continental Drift" on WBAI-FM, which continued weekly for almost four years.

By now a fixture on the NY cultural scene...

...DJ Neva specializes in music from the entire African continent, as well as the Caribbean/Latin America; the Maghreb/Middle East, and the Celtic world. She is currently featured DJ for several ongoing live world music events, and performs regularly with locally-based African artists. She has presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM Cafˇ, 651 Arts, Harvey Theatre); the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing; New York University's Bronfman Center, and many other cultural institutions.

She is also a founding member of Music for the Masses, a full-service production company specializing in World Music.

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