{"id":14975,"date":"2024-05-16T16:03:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T21:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/?p=14975"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:14:36","slug":"tips-to-start-djing-freesia-towle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/tips-to-start-djing-freesia-towle\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Advisor by Day, DJ by Night: Freesia Denyse\u2019s 5 Tips to Start DJing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photo by Sam Harper | @<\/em>fusedx<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How a Berklee Advisor Built a DJ Career Through Community, Consistency, and Creative Strategy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To be a DJ, you need to be able to read a room, determine a crowd\u2019s needs, and even direct them to where they need to go emotionally through the music. Freesia Denyse does all of these things as a DJ and also as an Academic Advisor at Berklee Online. 
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\u201cAs an Advisor, my role is really being able to empathize and take what I\u2019m hearing in the news and reading on social media, and assume that my students are being hit with this as well,\u201d she says. \u201cI go into conversations with students with a certain heightened level of awareness that this person might really be in it right now and I need to give them care and compassion.\u201d
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When Freesia is not advising Berklee Online students, this same care and compassion goes into her love for curating and sharing music as a DJ around the LA music scene. She has thriving TikTok<\/a> and Instagram<\/a> accounts, where she posts mashups of her favorite artists, which is all part of her business strategy. Her most popular mashup of \u201cSoldier\u201d by Destiny\u2019s Child and \u201cFTCU\u201d by Nicki Minaj has more than 1.1 million views on TikTok. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

@freesia.denyse<\/a>

Soldier by Destiny\u2019s Child (2004) meets FTCU by Nick Minaj (2023)<\/p> \u266c original sound – FREESIA<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote>