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DJ Méndez

After joining a counseling institution called Fasta and meeting sound engineer Jordi Fuste, DJ Méndez started his career as a Latin rapper, making his live debut in a local festival. Mixing hip-hop and traditional Latin American rhythms, and he was able to get a record deal, soon climbing charts in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and even Russia with his first hit "Chiki-Chiki", featured in his debut album Latino for Life. He had met the producer Robert Wåtz while working at Toys R Us. The emerging interest for the Latin American music in Europe was one factor in the acceptance and music like this Chilean market as closed as the Scandinavian market, which until recently were only local artists and popular English-speaking. Some of his songs like "Estocolmo", show-through a Latin song the attitude and opinion of Latin American migrants to lands so different from theirs as the Scandinavian countries. In March 2001 he visited his native country, carrying out a successful promotional tour. His songs are in Chilean Spanish with a mixture of English, was produced in conjunction with the popular DJ's Rob'n'Raz, have melodic choruses made by singers such as Emmanuel Contreras, Martin Thors, Pablo Javier Gonzalez Cepeda or (better known as Yei) choristers who were both in their studio recordings and in each of the live performances he does. Today is one of the best representatives of Chilean rap and hip-hop and one of the Chilean artists with greater international influence. Has accomplished many milestones and participated in several music festivals, highlighting 1 Award MTV Video Music Awards Latinoamérica Awards and 1 MTV Europe Music Awards, second place in Melodifestivalen Sweden 2002, the gull of gold in the Song Festival of Viña del Mar, participation in the famous festival Son Latinos in the Canary Islands, Spain with 350,000 people, a concert for more than 250,000 people in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, and participation to more than 100,000 people in La Pampilla of Coquimbo. He is currently managing his own label, Macabro Records, where he supports young emerging music, and together with his brother, DJ eMe, own school of DJ's largest in Scandinavia, Dj Macabre School. In 2009, Méndez is working in his upcoming album and the first single of the album titled "Lady" was recently released on radios in Chile.


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Born:
Mar 26, 1975 In Valparaíso, Chile
Movie/TV Credits:
20
First Appeared:
In the series Melodifestivalen 1959-02-26
Latest Project:
Series Juego textual 2022-10-10
Known For
Poster of Juego textual
Poster of ¡Qué dice Chile!
Poster of Estamos invitados
Poster of La dimensión Rossa
Filmography
Series Juego textual Self - Guest 2022-10-10
Series Pero con respeto Self 2021-08-02
Series De tú a tú Self 2021-03-01
Series ¡Qué dice Chile! Self - Contestant 2021-08-16
Series ¿Quién es la máscara? Sapo 2021-11-01
Series Contigo en la mañana Self 2019-03-11
Series El discípulo del chef Self - Contestant 2019-10-06
Series Podemos hablar Self - Guest 2019-03-29
Series Pasapalabra Self 2018-01-07
Series La divina comida Self - Contestant 2016-07-09
Series Algo personal Self 2015-02-23
Movie Mamá Ya Crecí Fred 2014-02-13
Series Estamos invitados Self 2014-08-28
Series La dimensión Rossa DJ Méndez 2012-05-05
Series Mentiras verdaderas Self 2011-10-11
Series Sin dios, ni late Self 2008-07-07
Series Vértigo Self 2003-03-13
Series Morandé con compañia Self 2001-03-05
Series De pé a pá Self 1996-01-07
Series Melodifestivalen Méndez 1959-02-26