#anca dello russo

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Saint Hollywood bbys - Anca Dello Russo

Dears,

First off, happy 2020!

We spent the winter break replenishing our energies, re-aligning our chakras and focusing on what’s most important - the music and the people that we love.

We’re over the moon to finally have Berlin fashion queen and rap nerd Anca Dello Russo  in the Saint Hollywood booth!

My first contact with Anca was actually sometime in fall 2018 when she was invited to play a set for a fashion event at Apollo 111. I only knew her as the fem-sex-posi force of nature on insta, where she always sports the most fierce choice of outfits and badass rap lyrics, so I was thrilled to discover what a warm and giving person she was IRL, not to mention liking the same kind of post-clubbing weirdness I was into. We’ve been talking about doing an event together ever since, so I’m beyond happy to finally make that happen.

Besides freelancing as a stylist, Anca also works at Trauma, which is one of my favorite Berlin venues.

Get to know her a little bit better below and hope to see all u qts on the 7th!

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Born and raised in post-communist Bucharest, Romania as a single child from a middle-class family with mixed cultures, I studied foreign languages at my parents’ wishes till I was old enough to become a rebel when puberty hit and  ended up going to art school in Bucharest. After that everything became an experiment thanks to my shape-shifting and ever-changing personality, being the type of person who understands things fast and gets bored easily by anything that doesn't stimulate my intellect, I pursued satiating my hunger for the aesthetic and the absurd.

I started working in movies, fashion, marketing, you name it! All that until 2015 when I decided to leave Romania for real and get a bit deeper into knowing what I liked and how. I settled in Berlin ( where else?) and discovered that I‘m attracted towards anything on a high-energy frequency, from people to activities.

My passion for music started when I was around 14, the moment I first heard Laurent Garnier and Pantha du Prince alongside Delano Smith (that I happened to meet at 18 at an after we set up at a friend’s house, that was one of those moments that set me up for really connecting myself with the scene), Theo Parrish,Three Chairs and Alton Miller at a friend’s and decided I need to dig deeper. Of course I began with electronic music as I was also the so-called adopted child of the house scene in Romania. I was lucky enough to live in an Eastern European city that had deep house and soul funk at that time as one of its main inspirations when it came to underground music.

I never worked towards a DJing career. I guess just the passion for music and people in general, as well as the different cultures coming together in this industry slowly made me get more acquainted with this side, to the point of taking the step of trying my hand at DJing myself and making people get crazy at parties once in a while.

I can't say I have a specific genre of music that I like to play since I don’t consider myself to be a professional DJ, but to me it’s just a fun thing to do every now and then, although I do have big soft spot for all things trap, rap, Afrobeat, baile funk and any kind of booty music, the kind that makes you lose control. I have a few people around me that I deeply love and respect, so they inspired me to the core and besides that, it’s a mood. Like I said, anything on a high vibration, anything that doesn’t let you take a break or bore you. Just like the people around me and myself, it’s a story. One of those stories you really wanna keep on listening. Artists like Stimulus, Bearcat, LSDXOXO, bbymutha, Zutzut and Dinamarca have had a huge influence on me.

Three tracks that i listen to any time i want to get in a big mood

♥ https://soundcloud.com/babelishofficial/rdam  

Babel-ish is a DJ and producer from The Netherlands. His sets and live performances gravitate towards house and Black music mostly. This track in particular could probably rise me from the dead!

♥ https://soundcloud.com/tygapaw/werk-xxx

Second one is this small masterpiece from Tygapaw. I mean, you really gotta be living under a rock to not know about Tygapaw,  the Caribbean God behind some of NYC’s most inclusive after-hours parties!  If you really don’t know what i am talking about, just listen to this track.

♥ https://soundcloud.com/iam2live/2feminine-soft-feat-dj-delish-ranika

This third baby is another one that easily zones me out no matter what and where. Queen Delish of course!! Having cut her teeth on the ballroom circuit as both a DJ and performer, this vogue femme track just sets the vibe for any epic night.

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more from anca!

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