Pure DJs - Joyce Mercedes




JOYCE MERCEDES (BIOG)

Joyce Mercedes, (globally known as female DJ) passed her Athenaeum-diploma and began a study Economics in Amsterdam. Next to her study in the 90's she started working as a dancer for leading organizations like Pantera and X-tension. Joyce performed in a sparkling dance show in the most famous clubs in the world. Her passion for music lies as well in her dancing as in her singing. In 1997-1999 Joyce Mercedes was part of "Centerfold", a singing group. In 1998 they performed in a sold out Amsterdam Arena during the pause of the classic football game Ajax-PSV. "Centerfold" also added lustre to the 15th year anniversary of Playboy. Joyce Mercedes also works regularly as a model, featuring in campaigns for Heineken, Campari, Gap-Star, Playboy, MAXIM and FHM magazines and has done various videoclips, commercials and guest rols in movie’s
In 1999 Joyce Mercedes started DJ’ing. Acuminating in the residency DJ spot at the well known Amsterdam “Supperclub" and the 2 year "Space World Tour" to crown it all off. At this moment Joyce Mercedes has performed in more than 55 countries in almost every famous foreign club in Europe, North America, South-America as well as in the Far East. Shared stages with names such as John Digweed, Sasha, Paul van Dyk, and Derrick May.
She Received her Audio Engineering degree in 2004 at the School of Audio Engineering (SAE) in Amsterdam, and studied further on the more specialized course in Electronic Music Production. She has now started with producing her own music. End 2007 she launched her own label QOC-Recordings and released varies underground dance music on it. She released 2 DJ mix compilations ‘Best female dj’s of the world” (Clubstar 2007) and her latest called Pure (QOC-recordings 2009). She now is working on her vocal singels with producer Gerry Owens. The first single is called ‘ give it up’, soon to be released
Some clubs names out of many more: Netherlands- Dance valley / Greece – zakynthos – Barrage / Portugal – porto – hitclub / Netherlands – supper club / Neterlands – panama / Spain -Barcelona – catwalk / Swiss -Laussane – D club / Taipei – Ministry of sound / Djakarta – Vertigo / Djakarta – stadium / Maroc -Skhirat – Platinum / Netherlands – impulz outdoor / Tunesia – calyso / Greece -Crete – galea / Zurich – aqua / Libanon – Eddy sands / Paris – mix / red light / Queen / Croatia - Zagreb – Best / Hong kong – volar / Chile – Santiago – ministry of sound / Columbia – bogota – cinema / China – shanghai – M2 / Peru – lima – home / Bali – double 6 / China – shanghai – 100 years anniversary mont blanc / Bodrum – bianca’s beach club / Belgium, la rocca / San paolo, club anzu / Germany Dresden – pacha / Johannesburg – club sutra / Egypt – Heineken festival / Kuala lumpur – Hilton – zeta bar / Egypt – Sjarm – pacha / Czech republic – Pardubice event / Warsaw – underground / Istanbul – black / Bamboo – Romania – Bucharest / Luxembourg – VIP room / Macedonia – colluseum / Israel – ultra sound / Croatia – Aurora / Portugal – Forte / Mandeira island –Calheta beach party / Netherlands –MECC / Ukraine – club opera / Ukraine – forsage / Swiss – vanilla club / Italy - the paillotes / Tunesia – Theatre de carthage / Bulgaria – Cielo / Chile – teatro caupolican / Marrakesh – theatro / Marrakesh – nikki beach / India – pune – festival / Columbia – paradise & carnaval / Columbia – festival cathagena / Slovenia – escape / Slovenia – vertigo / dubai – space world tour / Torino – disco la Gare / Quito – Eguador – vulkano / Abu Dhabi – The LAB / Ankara – club gate 66 / hong kong – chivas event /Jordan – Club Nai / Cyprus – club versus / swiss – Geneva – bypass / India – soul club

Discography:
2008:
Golden Glow-Joyce Mercedes (QOC recordings)
Golden Glow-Joyce Mercedes (bobby deep mix) (QOC- recordings)
Golden Glow-Joyce Mercedes (tomic remix) (QOC- recordings)
Golden glow -Joyce Mercedes (fitalic remix) (QOC- recordings)
Golden glow-Joyce Mercedes (splashfunk remix) (QOC- recordings)
Sparkling Stars-Joyce Mercedes (QOC- recordings)
Amor vocal mix-Joyce Mercedes(QOC- recordings)
Kemikal love -Splashfunk & Joyce Mercedes - original (QOC- recordings)
Kemikal love -Splashfunk & Joyce Mercedes (joyce mercedes deep dub) (QOC- recordings)
Kemikal love -Splashfunk & Joyce Mercedes (splashfunk’s joyfunk mix)(QOC- recordings)
2009:
Clothes off – Joyce Mercedes & Ismael rivas (plastic fantastic) original
Clothes off – Joyce Mercedes & Ismael rivas (plastic fantastic) radioedit
Clothes off – Joyce Mercedes & Ismael rivas (plastic fantastic) Christian cambas remix
Clothes off – Joyce Mercedes & Ismael rivas (plastic fantastic) Sorry Shoes remix
Clothes off – Joyce Mercedes & Ismael rivas (plastic fantastic) DJ Fady remix
DJ MIx Compilation:
Best female DJ’s of the world – clubstar (2007)
PURE – QOC-recordings (2009)



Some recent magazines:
FHM Denmark / FHM Netherlands (2x) / FHM maleysia / FHM Norway / Panorama (2x) / Maxim Belgium / Nl 20 / Revu / Veronica gids / Fhm lituania / Maxim NL / Maxim germany / FHM spain (2x) / FHM Turkey / FHM hungary / FHM Slovenia (2x) / FHM Romania / Sain Australia / MAN MAGAZINE cyprus / Going out – france (2x) / Playboy Netherlands / Telegraaf NL / Cover What’s on UAE / Cataloque absolute Danny / Nieuwe Revu / CD covers / Heineken abri / Aktueel NL / Penthouse NL / Freeze cover Greece/ Whats on Cover UAE / FHM Thailand / FHM india / FHM Latvia



Personality and image:
Joyce Mercedes: Extraverted – Sensing – Feeling - Perceiving
A very ambitious, beautiful, hard working and funny woman.
She has her own thoughts and own ideas that may or may not fit into your vision.
Loves people and new experiences lively and fun, and enjoys being the centre of attention.
She lives in the here-and-now. She is flexible, adaptable, genuinely interested in people, and usually kind-hearted.

Having a special ability to get a lot of fun out of her life, well-developed appreciation for aesthetic beauty. She lives in the world of possibilities. Negative possibilities do not sit well with her.
The entire world is a stage. She loves to be the centre of attention and perform for people.
She wants constantly putting on a show for others to entertain them and make them happy. Spontaneous, optimistic and individual personality.


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