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| Jay White, DJ |
I can never blame anything on the alcohol. It was the music. It took his sets for me to learn who Adele is, choose a Franki Valli song for my burlesque routine and discover The Supermen Lovers. Always an hospitable host, I had to get up with him for a interview even though he claims he's not as cool as everybody thinks he is. DUMBO. Halcyon. He rolled up on his motorized scooter and we got to it.
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A DJ. That’s why I
chose you, that’s how I met you… but what do you do in the hospitality
industry?
I’m a maître d' at Apothéke, in Chinatown.
I was also a general manager for the same owner's previous business, The Wall
Street Burger Shoppe and was a hospitality specialist during my college years
at Starbucks—that’s where the hospitality background comes from.
Ok, with the DJ’ing,
what was your first gig, your first break?
My first gig, DJing, believe it or not, was at the Chelsea
Hotel. I was nervous, I
was sweating, I didn’t know what to play next. I had a friend who was trying to
mentor me through the DJ process, Richie Beretta, and he was telling me,
“play this next, play that next” – my set was like an hour but it felt like the
whole night to me. But that’s when I realized I wanna do it, everything
clicked.
