Bling Crosby

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Musical masterminds know this one thing: to reach the cutting edge, stop first at the fundamentals of the past. With his rock ‘n roll roots and hip-hop coming of age, Colorado-born, San Francisco-based DJ and Producer Destro aka Bling Crosby is no exception. Whether he’s packing the floors at Las Vegas nightclubs like the MGM Grand’s Studio 54, headlining events as part of the performance-based Soul.Scienz DJ crew he founded in 2003 or bringing the art of DJ-ing back to the stage with dynamic two-by-four sessions on tour with co-conspirator DJ Tone, Destro delivers a sound whose lightning-quick mixes, artfully-conceived sets and intricate delivery preserves and evolves the art of DJ’ing. But Destro hardly stops there. Under his guidance, turntablism, hip-hop and house mixes blend everything from jazz to new wave, oldies to drum & bass, electro to downtempo. The result? Hours of club-rocking entertainment. Growing up as Keith Richard Waye in small-town Pueblo, CO, Destro lived a life shaped by music from the beginning. His father, a music aficionado who still boasts a private record collection that far exceeds his son’s, had the prescience to name him after one of modern music’s icons: Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. After playing guitar for 12 years, Destro found the turntables in the mid-1990’s and hasn’t looked back. During his Colorado years, Destro reveled in a diet of hip-hop, trip-hop, drum & bass and classic breaks that led him to perform in clubs and become

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