Education
She graduated from Queens College with a degree in Urban Studies while simultaneously experimenting and honing her craft on the turntables.
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DJ Rekha
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Career
She has been credited with pioneering Bhangra music in North America. Her first album, DJ Rekha Presents Basement Bhangra, released in October 2007 on Koch Records, fuses the Indian genre of bhangra music with international hip-hop and drum beats. DJ Rekha spent the first year of her life in London, and the following three years in New Delhi, India.
She credits this time in India as critical for exposure to Punjabi, the primary language of bhangra.
She returned to London briefly until her family moved to Queens, New New York DJ Rekha spent most of her adolescence in Westbury, Long Island and currently lives in Brooklyn, New New York
In 2000, DJ Rekha founded Sangament (sangam is Hindi for "confluence" — a place where two rivers flow together), a production company that produces live concerts and provides music consulting services to record labels, cultural institutions, media companies, and corporations. DJ Rekha produces live events and her monthly parties, Basement Bhangra and Bollywood Disco through Sangament, Incorporated.
DJ Rekha founded Basement Bhangra in 1997 in New New York
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