User:Officialdjredd

The birth of DJ Redd started about 7 years ago when I was 10 years old. I started at new birth missionary Baptist church as an audio engineer and sound technician. Ii was the one setting up sound and stage equipment for shows, productions, concerts, etc. I served as a volunteer at the church; working from the small 24 channel Mackie audio mixer to a 48 channel audio console (right now I use the Midas Legend 3000 mixing console). I started off at a very young age because I wanted a great future and I didn’t want to wait because life is short. I have become somewhat an expert at what I was doing. In the years of working in productions I meet and worked with many celebrities such as Mary Mary to Canton Jones to IroCc Williams to Yung Joc. While serving at my church with our youth ministry. “New Birth Student Ministries (NBSM)”, my mentor, Edward Long had brought some CDJ turntables for the church, and of course I become interested in becoming a dj. This is when my dj career began. My first gig was for an event v103.3 had put on called, “For Sister’s Only”. Edward was helping out with one of the booth and he wanted me to dj. Lucky for me out sponsors didn’t show up so I didn’t have to dj (I still didn’t know how to use the turntables at the time). While we were wait on them to show up, I just out on my headphones and practice and get use to the turntables. After the event Edward would let me come up to the church and practice using the turntables every week. It didn’t take me long to mix and blend once I got used to using the BPM’s. When I finally got use to using the turntables Edward put me to the test, he made me the dj for our NBS Ministries. I had to dj the youth services every 2nd and 3rd Sunday. And for the big youth events we had put on (now I am the Official DJ for NBS Ministries). I have accomplished many things and played a big role in events as a DJ. One of our biggest events is the Represent Conference and Hype Night; we put them on about every year. Every time we have this event there or over 1500 plus teens for the Represent Conference from various locations in the U.S., and about 3000 teens for Hype Night from difference high school in GA. While being a dj, Edward introduced me to Dexter Easley known as DJ Dex; he is one of the best DJ’s in South Carolina. He became my mentor under Edward. While working with Dex I learned about life as a tour dj, club dj, and radio dj, that’s how I become all three. Traveling with Edward, I have been the dj for a lot if out of state events. I soon invested in my self and brought my own turntables. I own some Stanton T.60 Turntables. I was going to get CDJ Turntables, but I wanted vinyl so I can learn about being a “real” dj from the basics. Then Dex gave me a large crate of records (I know, old school) for me to mix. I had to train my ear to listen to certain sounds and rhythms and instruments. Of course I want on the road and DJing events with some LP’s. My dad had invested in me by getting a Serato Scratch Live (a hardware and soft that allows you to mix music from turntable to from your laptop digitally, this is what every dj is using now). Now my name “DJ Redd” is a named that I earned when I was the dj for a fashion show that was apart of Hype Night. A group of kids, including my twin brother, go together and yelled out, “DJ Redd!”, and since then that’s how I got my name. Redd comes from the first four letters in my last name, Reddick, and red is my favorite color. While living the life as a DJ, Edward and Dex introduced me into the Radio Industry. Edward has a radio broadcast called, “The Good Life Radio”, and he sold that then created a new radio broadcast called, “The New Skool Live”. This is a radio broadcast he started up for you NBS Ministry. Edward had me produce drops in sweeps for the show. Edward then hooked me up with this man named Erwin, known at Cat. I meet him before meeting Dex. Erwin produces the radio imaging for Radio One. I started interning with Erwin, sharpening my skills. Then, when I met Dex, I did the same. Dex was doing the Voice over’s and I was producing commercials, radio drops and sweeps for the New Skool Live and for clubs, radio stations, promoters, etc. My production is now in different radio stations, in different states also. Now I am 17 years old and I am a Dj, Audio Engineer, Sound Technician, Video Editor, Producer, and I do Radio Imaging. I have been doing this for 7 years.