Ivy Awino is a mission-driven sports activities & leisure enterprise skilled with a ardour for utilizing these platforms to create a sustainable constructive influence. She was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and raised in Dallas, Texas. She mastered each the piano and cello earlier than discovering her love for one more instrument; turntables.
The gifted empress behind the turntables balances deejaying on-air, on major live performance phases, at choose nightclubs and life-style venues, for superstar and non-profit occasions, and for company shoppers, with now internet hosting, interviewing and modeling. As a world DJ, Poizon Ivy has a love for numerous music, incorporating all genres into her units and radio mixes.
In 2010, Ivy obtained her first break internet hosting her self-titled weekly on-line radio present, “Poizon Ivy After Darkish” on WMUR, Marquette College’s student-run radio station. In a number of quick years, Ivy rose in ranks, opening for among the most infamous names in music: Nas, Wiz Khalifa, Lupe Fiasco, B.o.B, J. Cole and Juicy J to call a number of. She is now one of the vital in-demand Midwest DJ skills, performing and internet hosting all through the Midwest area. DJ Poizon Ivy turned the primary feminine mixer to grace the airwaves at WKKV-FM as a V100.7 Combine Squad DJ and most just lately joined heritage station KKDA K104.5’s combine squad.
In 2016, she joined the Dallas Wings as their in enviornment DJ through the WNBA’s historic twentieth anniversary season. She turned the Dallas Mavericks’ first feminine workforce DJ in franchise historical past, and is the 2nd feminine DJ in NBA league historical past to perform that feat.
And in 2018, she turned the primary ever feminine DJ to DJ at an NBA All Star Recreation.
When she’s not honing her expertise, DJ Poizon Ivy is advocating for varied causes and dealing with non-profit organizations that allow younger ladies pursuing careers in music, younger moms, and organizations that assist well being points affecting younger ladies.
DJ Poizon Ivy’s private imaginative and prescient contains continuous development into an genuine voice of authority and chief in tradition and variety, and branding herself as a curator of music, style, leisure and all issues feminine empowerment.
“When it’s all stated and achieved, the one factor that ought to matter is how nicely you do the job; not your gender,” says DJ Poizon Ivy.
