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Ill-esha began her music career singing and playing instruments in bands before crossing over into the electronic world as an MC/vocalist in 1997. She performed all over North America with house, techno and drum n bass DJs before taking up spinning in 1999. She developed her now trademark style of singing, MCing and spinning simultaneously.
She plays all styles of broken beat: d&b/jungle, breaks, hip hop, downtempo, 2step and oldskool, and has performed with names like De La Soul, Andy C, Dara, AK 1200, Dieselboy, Usual Suspects, Klute, LTJ Bukem, and Mickey Finn. She wrote and sang vocals for New York producer Datcyde's 'Social Skillz', originally featured on the Breakbeat Science 'Summer Solstice EP' and subsequently re-released four times in various formats due to its success.
Featured on a CBC television show as in-house DJ/composer, she has spun on MTV Canada's video countdown and appeared in several documentaries, in between touring Canada and the United States. This summer, she made her debut in Taiwan at the Heineken Summer Music Festival.
Currently, she is working on a solo album as well as embarking on many diverse collaborations ranging from rock to techno to funk. Rebuilding her recording studio with a vengeance, planning her world takeover, designing more jewelry and lending her voice to various animation and commercial projects - 2006 is already a busy year for this gal!
She is affiliated with PH1.ca and Agroculture in Vancouver, RFA in Seattle
and is a proud representative of Hardstep Sistaz and Junglistic Sistaz.
In Canada she's played:
Vancouver BC, Victoria BC, Whistler BC, Nanaimo BC, Prince George BC
Calgary AB, Saskatoon SK, Winnipeg MB, Toronto ON, and Ottawa ON
In the US she's played:
Seattle WA, Portland OR, Eugene OR, Mt Shasta CA, Los Angeles CA
Salt Lake City UT, Chapel Hill NC, Fayetteville NC, Washington DC,
Philadelphia PA, Camden NJ, Boston MA, New York NY, Poughkeepsie NY, and Miami FL
Internationally she?s played:
Kaohsiung, Taiwan


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Apr 29, 2007