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Shinedoe started performing as a dancer at an early age of 15. Inspired by her African heritage and influenced by music of the early 1980s, she performed at clubs, video-clips, and bands like Quazar and Warp, to name a few. Her mission was to translate the music through her dance movement.
After performing for 4 years as a dancer throughout Europe, she decided to stop and focus on other things such as buying electronic music records for personal use, and producing mix tapes for friends. Her music then was a mixture of US garage, Detroit techno and house. As a result of the mix tapes, her first gig happened at Club 'Ja' in Amsterdam. She seriously started mixing music at the age of 19; she got her debut booking in 1995 at the VIP-club@ Paradiso in Amsterdam, where she rocked the place and became resident DJ. Also, she was offered a residency at Club Stalker in Haarlem.
Ever since 1995, she played at all the big festivals, clubs and parties in the Netherlands, from Dance Valley to Awakenings. Also promoters from abroad got interested in her DJ-sets, which resulted in bookings in various countries. Parallel, from around 1997 until 2000 she played drum 'n bass under the pseudonym 'Black Magic Queen.' After a while she decided to focus on tech-house and techno only.
In 2001 till 2004, she started her own night called 'INMOTION' at clubs Paradiso and Amuse in Amsterdam, where she has been inviting quality (inter)national DJs to perform. In 2005, INMOTION moved to Amsterdam's club More, where she shared the concept and residency with Steve Rachmad.
Last year she released her debut record: 'Dillema/Alpha' on 100% Pure Records. But this year has really been her breakthrough on the techno scene as she has had releases, which all have received excellent feedback from djs and magazines all over.
The releases in 2005 features 12's on Trapez, Highland Beats, Intacto and few remixes. Furthermore, a track was licenced to Sven Väth's Cocoon label and even had a track on a MixMag magazine mix-CD this autumn. She also runs her own label 'Intacto Records,' collaboration with 100% Pure owner Dylan Hermelijn. This label has been launched in September 2004.
http://www.myspace.com/shinedoe

