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DJ Static (disambiguation) DJ Static is the name used by a number of DJs around the world: * DJ Static (Canadian DJ) (born 1977), Canadian DJ and radio personality * DJ Static (Danish DJ), Danish DJ, producer and event organizer *Static Revenger, American DJ and producer *Sta ...

'' DJ Static (born Michael Lai in 1977) is a well-known

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DJ and radio personality. He arrived in 1988 from Hong Kong settling first in

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, Canada then in

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. He credits hip hop music with helping him learn English and started DJing in 1994. In 1996, in collaboration with fellow Canadian DJ Professor Groove, he launched the award-winning WeFunk weekly radio show on

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90.3,

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's radio station. Since 1999, the show is also available online through WEFUNK Radio. Both DJs play a symbiotic mix of Funk, Soul, R&B and Rap, both old and new. The name of the radio show comes from the

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song "P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)", in which WEFUNK is a fictional radio station broadcasting "directly from the Mothership, top of the Chocolate Milky Way, 500,000 kilowatts of P Funk-power." The

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stream in 1999, becoming one of the oldest continuously operating radio streams on the Internet, as well as one of the longest-running online radio shows. DJ Static became DJ for the Canadian multicultural multilingual hip-hop group Nomadic Massive. The members of the band come from Haiti, Algeria, Iraq, China, Argentina, Chile and France. In addition to his radio work and work with Nomadic Massive, he has club residencies in Blizzarts and Boa in Montreal. At various times, he has DJed internationally including various American and Canadian venues, Cuba, Hong Kong and Zurich.

References

External links

MyspaceWEFUNK Radio

DJ Static bio page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Static, Dj 1977 births Living people Canadian DJs Canadian radio personalities Hong Kong emigrants to Canada McGill University alumni Musicians from Montreal Musicians from Vancouver