Eric Visa began his DJ career at the tender age of 17 as an unpaid guest DJ of the now defunct self-proclaimed house of funk, Boomerang Discotheque in Nairobi, Kenya. This was Eric's first exposure to house music and the legendary Technics 1210MK II turntables. The Boomerang finally closed it's doors in the early 1990s and Eric moved on to the neighboring hot spot Bubbles Discotheque, where he befriended the local resident DJs by buying them continuous rounds of vodka in exchange for valuable spinning time.
With access to the more commercially-oriented top-40 play list at Bubbles, Eric finally landed his first paid residency at Nairobi's Hard Rock Café as Music Program Administrator and Head DJ. This is where he eventually schooled himself on all the classics: from 1930s & 1940s Big Band, Vintage Lounge and American Standards, through 1950s & 1960's Rock n' Roll hits and on to the early Motown sound of the 1960s, eventually to the Disco, Classic Rock and Alternative Rock eras which punctuated the 1970s and 1980s dance clubs and FM radio dials.
With all this musical knowledge, Eric eventually moved to the UK in the early 1990s where he attended college and acquired his Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications Technology while working full-time as a Project Manager and Commercial Analyst for a global telecommunications company by day. His DJ schedule was filled with various club stints all over London and the Southeast by night along with some weddings, community events, and private social and corporate gigs on the weekends. One of his favorites dates on the community calendar remains The Notting Hill Carnival in the UK and the Pride Parade in NYC! Next on the community calendar: Bastille in Paris, Oktoberfest in Munich, Cinco De Mayo in Mexico City, Nang Songkran in Bangkok and of course Jamuhuri Day in the beloved green city in the sun, Nairobi!
In 1999, Eric moved back to Nairobi briefly before heading over to Bangkok, Thailand with his corporate job. While working on a telecommunications project, he found himself helping a work colleague launch a hip bar & lounge in Bangkok's notorious Soi Cowboy district, where he helped manage the entertainment schedule and recruit local DJ talent.
2000 found a very happy and excited Eric in transit to the Big Apple. Once in New York City and continuously entertaining lucrative corporate job offers from major global telecommunications players, the rug was pulled from under his feet on 9/11/2001 and, just as many lives were changed on that day, Eric found himself yanked mercilessly from corporate culture and back to DJing for a living; thus the genesis of EricVisa.com and the now infamous [ericvisa nycdj] persona. Today finds Eric deep into what he loves to do most - living a life with no alarm-clocks!.
"Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness and life to everything.
Fine music is the essence of order and leads to all that is just and good, of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate and eternal form." -Plato
Politics:
Nah, fuck that! How about some Liberal Conservatism for a change?
Love of my life:
Mama Fuzzy. Oh, and of course my beloved 1210 M5Gs!
Tipple of choice:
STELLA ARTOIS. (That's what you meant, right? My fav beer...?)
Drug of choice:
Vinyl addiction, baby!
Your porn star name:
Vin Steinway (...how manly is that?)
Tell a joke:
There was once this girraffe, a zebra, a couple of elephants a bottle of rum and a box of chicago house records...
