The youngest competitor in this year’s world DJ championship, Michelle Rasul, is one of the best DJs in the world.
The Azerbaijani turntable prodigy showed off her scratching, cutting, and fading abilities at her home in the skyscraper-lined city of Dubai. She was wearing a baseball cap. Her teeny fingers danced across the turntable as she crafted an electric soundscape and recalled how, not all that long ago, she had become a child turntable celebrity.
“He’s a true magician, bro!” Michelle exclaimed earlier this week as she watched her father practice DJing. she said. And the rest is history,” she continued, grinning like she was summarizing a long career. ”
Michelle placed 14th out of 85 DJ stars from around the world in the “Portablist” category of the international portable scratch competition this year, becoming the youngest competitor in the history of the DMC World DJ Championship. The 2021 competition was conducted online due to the coronavirus pandemic.
She is determined to beat her father, a pro who taught her the ropes and placed ninth this year, Vagif “DJ Shock” Rasulov, in the competition next year despite the fact that she did not make it past the first round this time.
Turntablism can seem to be as easy as taking a record, setting the needle down, and sliding it back and forth with one’s fingertips. It first entered the music scene with hip-hop artists in the late 1970s. For the wizards, it is an art form that entails impromptu sound mixing and sophisticated methods like quick, rhythmic scratches and “crabs,” which involve rubbing the record under the needle.
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From the moment they gave her a mini DJ starter kit, her parents knew she had extraordinary abilities. She was fascinated and would press every button on her father’s machinery even when she was a baby.
Sadia Rasulova, Michelle’s mother and a former violinist who fostered Michelle’s musical interest, said of her daughter, “She just picks things up so fast.”Baby Shark stuff or ABC songs.”. I. G. , as well as Michael Jackson, who she still views as her favorite.
Following her parents’ online posting of videos of Michelle scratching, Michelle’s popularity skyrocketed. She claims to be the “youngest DJ in the world” on her Instagram account, which has gathered 110,000 followers. From 6 to 65 years old, she received messages from aspirant DJs all over the world.
On Michelle’s Instagram page, there are numerous pictures of her performing at events like Dubai’s recent food festival, breakdancing and scratching frantically with her sunglasses-wearing father, spinning live hip-hop and techno music for her listeners, and strumming the bass. Before the pandemic stopped large gatherings, Michelle used to perform frequently at weddings, parties, and music festivals all over the city.
Michelle is a third-grader who is occupied with going to online school, skateboarding, reading, and hanging out with friends and dogs at her local park while the rest of the The attention of the world is on her success as a DJ star. She always has her turntabling at heart, though.
She said, “I don’t know how I would live without music.”. “Like from the beginning, from the very beginning, when I was very little. “.
