We haven’t met Clyde Sergio Narain yet, the DJ otherwise known as Chuckie from The Hague, but he sure sounds like a cliché. A diamond-encrusted watch, a contacts book full of American rappers, a flat bill baseball cap, and a pair of bejeweled DJ headphones. Now that’s so hip hop.
But the same homey who won two MOBO awards for Best Urban DJ, and who counts Lil John, Will.i.am, and Jermain Dupri as friends, also rocked Miami’s Winter Music Conference in March with an electro house anthem, opened up ID&T’s 40,000-capacity Sensation White dance event in 2008, and played at David Guetta’s ‘F*** Me I’m Famous’ night, at Pacha in Ibiza. He grew a club night from the ground up, and releases DJ-friendly dance tracks on his own label. Now that’s so house.
Chuckie is a conundrum, a traitor to hip hop, and a defector to dance music, but his background is even more confusing. “My dad is half black, half Indian, and my mum is from Indonesia,” says Narain, in an accent that is impossile to pin down. “I grew up in Suriname, South America, before moving to Europe.”
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