Mesquitas Artist Bio

“I find it odd that not everyone wants to be a DJ. There is no greater feeling than being able to manipulate the exact next thought about to enter someone’s mind.”

Mesquitas was born in Paramaribo Suriname but has spent the biggest part of his life on the island of Aruba. It is possible to say that the island has molded Mesquitas into the person he is today.
 
His mother and sister being into music, it came to no surprise that, at the age of 14, Mesquitas wanted in on the action.
Mesquitas choose for a subtle approach towards music. This subtlety is still to be heard in his tracks and mixes now.

At the age of 20 Mesquitas decided to move to the Netherlands, at first this decision wasn’t based upon his music career, but touching turntables for the first time he knew that they would have a great impact on the rest of his life.

Mesquitas’ conquest as a DJ began in an old unknown town café in Eindhoven. Turning this old-town café into a respected club earned Mesquitas a life-time residency. Nowadays Club Fifties is well known around the Netherlands and DJs go through long waiting lists to get a chance of performing there. This was only the beginning for young Mesquitas, after growing fond but weary of what Eindhoven had to offer him at the time, he decided to move to Rotterdam.

Proving his worth and scoring a residency at Rotterdam’s coolest club Catwalk, was the stepping stone which propelled his career to the professional level. Now that Mesquitas had earned the respect from his peers he set his goals on making music. Releasing his debut EP on Fassade Records (Breaking Barricades EP – January 2009) Mesquitas proved to himself that no boundaries were to keep him away from his dreams. But he did not stop there, producing killer after killer track he has proven to the world that Mesquitas is here to stay.
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