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What’s your full name and where are you from?
Tierra Amira Jones and I’m originally from Washington DC! I am now based in Los Ángeles.
Tell us a little about your business
I originally moved to Los Angelos to pursue acting. That was it. My main purpose. I never saw myself getting into Music especially music producing and DJing. I remember, I was on set of a tv show and I met this girl that was a DJ at the time with her twin sister. As time went on, I always saw her downloading and queuing new music for her DJ sets during our downtime on set. Now, around the same time, I had been music producing a little but with acting and being on sets, I could not put as much time as I wanted into it. However, my heart still yearn to do something in music. One day it struck me to ask my friend that I had met if she would teach me how to DJ. She immediately responded then her and her twin sister took me under their wings.
Furthermore, what she exactly told me was “ Hey, I talked to my sister and we have an event coming up in three weeks. If you are comfortable, you can open and do a 1 hour set for the event!” With no hesitation, and not even the slightest idea of how to DJ, I accepted the offer. So for those following three weeks, I downloaded a ton of music…
