dancer, percussionist, jazz singer, DJ, music producer and actor
Years active
1990s–present
Labels
Batty Bass
Musical artist
DJ Nita (born 1980[1]) known as Nita Aviance is a dancer, percussionist, jazz singer, DJ, music producer, actor, and a member of The Carry Nation along with fellow DJ/producer Will Automagic. Nita is also half of two other production teams, BOOKWRMZ and Brooklyn Is Burning, as well as a member of the production team Pyramide.
In the late 1990s, Nita left Rochester for New York City where she joined the legendary House of Aviance, "one of the major houses in the city's ballroom and vogue scene."[2][3][4] Nita is one of the prominent DJ/producers of New York City's LGBT nightlife and has worked in various cities around the world as a DJ including London, UK where her record label is based.[5][6][7][8]
Nita has logged remixes for various artists including Beyoncé, the Scissor Sisters, Le1f, Will Automagic, and Adam Joseph.[3] According to Mix Magazine, Nita and Will Automagic are regarded as "veterans of the ever ebbing and flowing New York nightlife scene, having begun working together after being introduced to one another by fellow DJ Michael Formika Jones in the early 2000s."[9]
^ abcThe New York Times, Defiant on the Dance Floor: L.G.B.T.Q. Night Life in New York, 2017 by Jeremy Allen (20 June 2017) [1] (retrieved 3 August 2020)
^Vice (magazine), We Asked Two Quintessential NYC Queer DJs About the Art of the All-Night Set by Steve Weinstein (November 20, 2015) [2] (retrieved 3 August 2020)
^ abResident Advisor, DJ Nita biography [3] (retrieved 4 August 2020)
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^New York Times, The Carry Nation, a Downtown D.J. Duo, Drums Up a Hypnotic Beat by Michael Musto (28 June 2017) [4] (retrieved 4 August 2020)
^Cite error: The named reference Out was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Queerty, The dead stripper from “Rough Night” exposed; new music from The Carry Nation; look who’s twerking by Derek de Koff (18 June 2017) [5] (retrieved 3 August 2020)
^Salkind, Micah, Do You Remember House?: Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds, Oxford University Press (2018), p. 284, ISBN 9780190698447 [6] (retrieved 3 August 2020)
^Cite error: The named reference Mixmag was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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