Nina Kraviz is one of the most famous female djs in the music industry, record producer and singer.
So, let’s dive into some unknown and interesting facts about her early life, career and discography.
1. Nina Kravits, widely known as Nina Kraviz, is a Russian DJ, music producer, and singer, playing minimal techno and acid house.
2. She was born and raised in Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia on October 12, 1989 (31 years old).
3. Nina Kraviz studied dentistry at the age of 19 in Moscow, where she later gained her residency.
4. Back in 2013, in her interview for Moscow For People, Kraviz revealed that she was married to a film producer, named Sergei Chliyants, but that they later divorced.
5. Her first job as a student was a promoter for cigarettes brand Pyotr Perviy.
6. In the early 2000s, before her music career took off, Nina Kraviz has worked in a number of roles, including: Fixing “cosmonauts’ teeth”, hosting a local Irkutsk radio show and writing for a fanzine.
7. Kraviz’s techno education started in her hometown of Irkutsk when she would listen to early-hours radio broadcasts of electronic music on the Europa Plus network.
8. By the end of the 2000’s, Nina was living in Moscow, working as a dentist at a war veterans’ hospital by day and holding down a club residency on Friday nights.
9. Nina Kraviz has also been the face of Hugo Boss Perfume.
10. She was accepted into the Red Bull Music Academy in Seattle in 2005, however, she couldn’t attend as she couldn’t obtain a visa, attending the following year in Melbourne instead.
11. By 2008, she was playing a regular night at the Propaganda Club in Moscow
12. Kraviz released her self-titled debut album in February 2012 through the Rekids record label, to mixed-positive reviews.
13. In 2014, she started her own record label, named трип (Trip).
14. She mixed the forty-eighth DJ-Kicks mix album, which was released in January 2015.
15. In 2018, Nina Kraviz played an amazing special DJ set inside the beautiful Eiffel Tower for Cercle.
16. As far as her first significant tracks are concerned, Kraviz has revealed that it took her 4 minutes to make “Fire” (2012). As she has said: “I spent exactly as much time writing it as the song lasts“.
17. Furthermore, “Ghetto Kraviz”, one of her most amazing songs, was written in 40 minutes.
18. Her singles are: “Pain in the Ass” (Rekids, 2009), “I’m Week” (Rekids, 2010), “Ghetto Kraviz” (Rekids, 2011), “Pochuvstvui” (Trip, 2017), “Cascalho” (2009), “Grizado de Alface” (2011), “Kiko D Santos” (1999), “Preto no Branca”.
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