DJ LEFLARE, Is a former A&R At Cinematic Music Group, Contributing Writer at The Smokers Club & is currently working with Elevator Magazine. Born and raised in Upstate,NY (Albany) Leflare grew up old fashioned listening to everything his parents would be playing in the house at a early age, from the Temptations, Sade, Prince, MJ, and a lot of early 90's hip-hop. Back in high school Leflare took on being an artist along with some of his classmates who are his family now under a different nickname. Gaining local popularity around the district Leflare was able to experience the lifestyle of being a rapper. While rapping with his co-owned independent label Leflare always engineered and mixed down the tracks they recorded. He also hosted all of the songs that were released as "Dj Leflare" but never considered himself to be a real Dj. After he realized that he liked the business and creation process of brands,artist,ext he decided to focus more on becoming the plug for upcoming artist. Sharing his thoughts and strategies on how to execute the right moves in the industry. While working on becoming more of the Dj he always had been. Starting off by getting himself a controller to mix music properly and no longer off his computer. Leflare practiced mostly with himself and would watch how the Dj's around his city would work. With there being no real popular scene in Albany,NY, Leflare focused on his internet presence. Back when he was rapping he knew that blogs and publication sites were the go to for exposure, so with this knowledge he decided to showcase his work by teaming up with some of the undergrounds coolest blogs to get his online presence respected. Realizing that talent is one piece of the puzzle and business and how you execute your moves is everything if you wanna be somebody. So Leflare debuted his first project "Skkkrrr Skkkrrr Wit Da Work" that featured all of the underground and now famous talents & got a lot of good responses from this. Then he started to host other artist music to help them gain some more exposure. Leflare working With a wide range of artist shows how dedicated he his to get other people where he once wanted to be. Leflare takes hosting music to the next level with the additional promotional help that he provides through his services that guarantee the artist some great exposure. When Leflare Dj's a live set theres no doubt about it that it will be filled with energy as his wide range of music genres and artist he never fails to have the party turnt up to the maximum capacity. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.