Reggie Beas Bio

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“Big Chicago” Reggie Beas watched his friends all start from Boston to
blow up worldwide. Rocsi, co-host of BET’s 106 & Park… Superstar DJ to
the Superstars & Producer Clinton Sparks… Heavy Hitter/Smashsquad
Representative/“Mr. Heat Rocks” The DJ Chubby Chub… Showoff
Records/Promotions’ Producer/DJ Statik Selektah… Producer/DJ
International XL… He is now taking his turn in the spotlight.
 
Reggie Beas rocks parties… period. He is without peer reading the dance
floor, playing crowd favorites and slamming the hottest new music.
Building the energy level with quick mixes, he plays the right song at
the right time, bringing it in at the right point to get the audience
screaming. Cutting the music to let the crowd sing. Rocking the mic to
increase the already insane party vibe. He leads his audience on a
musical journey, effortlessly jumping between eras, genres and cultures
to create a tapestry of sound that becomes a classic in its own right.
Every song is better than the next. Impossible? He’ll show you how it’s
done.
 
“Big Chicago” is the perfect synthesis of old school and new school. He
comes from the era where lugging crates of records was a rite of
passage, 2 copies of every song was needed to really rock a party,
mashups were done LIVE with a cappellas and instrumentals, and
 
turntable tricks were done on turntables, not via effects machines and
computers. But he has also grown with the times, mastering Serato
Scratch Live to the point where he is teaching other DJs how to use it
effectively. His music library contains over 25,000 songs with every
imaginable style of music. He produces podcasts of his live sets and
creates free downloadable mixtapes with self-created graphic design. He
creates his own mashups for the urban community. And he streams audio
and video of his sets live at http://stickam.com/reggiebeas.
 
Reggie Beas’ podcasts have gained raving fans in Boston and worldwide.
He started his podcasts because he wanted the freedom to express
himself musically with no boundaries other than his imagination. He
could also experiment with different themes and see which ones
resonate. Instead of making mixes for his audience, he let the mixes
find an audience. The Lost Classics. Leaders Of The Old School.
Advanced Dance Therapy. The Puma City Session. Kings And Queens (The
Sunny Joe White/Frankie Crocker Edition). All have been downloaded
thousands of times. Like house musicians creating a different persona
for each style of music (like Louie Vega creating Masters At Work,
River Ocean and Nuyorian Soul), Reggie has created alter egos for many
of his podcasts. http://AdvancedDanceTherapy.podOmatic.com unleashes DJ
BeeezNutz to spin Dance, Top-40, Hip-Hop, Rock and Mashups.
http://25Plus.podOmatic.com is
DJ Reggie Beas playing Old School
EVERYTHING and http://LOTOS.podOmatic.com features the hottest 80s, 90s
& 2000s Hip-Hop and R&B. http://NYChi.podOmatic.com bring DJ BMX to the
forefront with the smoothest soulful deep House and classic House
tracks. The original podcast, http://ReggieBeas.podOmatic.com sends Big
Chicago to the tables with the hottest current and classic East Coast
and Dirty South Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae. And Reggie is the mastermixer
behind the scenes on the http://MorningMayhem.podOmatic.com site.
 
Originally from the South Side of Chicago, Reggie Beas grew up
listening to the original Hot Mix 5 on WBMX, and his style reflects
that upbringing. Hearing Underground Disco, Freestyle, R&B and Imports
mixed up with original House recordings, Reggie learned early on how to
draw from various sources to create a signature sound. Moving to
Oberlin College near Cleveland, Ohio, he almost instantly became the #1
most requested DJ, rocking frat parties to nightclubs, plus his radio
show on campus was the most listened to 3 years running.
 
But that’s nothing. Try doing that in a real city. Moving to Boston,
Massachusetts, “Big Chicago” quickly became the DJ other DJs came to
listen to. And if you can impress other DJs, the crowd is easy right?
In a career spanning 3 decades, Reggie Beas has had residencies at
almost every major club in the New England area, spinning in lounges as
small as 100 people and=2
0megaclubs as large as 2200 people. He gets the
call to spin when the elite of the elite come to Boston. He has been
the featured DJ for events ranging from the National Black Caucus black
tie party at the 2004 Democratic Convention; to Steppin’ Out, a
fundraiser attracting over 2000 guests annually; to the after party for
the Boston showing of HBO’s “The Black List”; to Boston Celtics’
captain Paul Pierce’s birthday celebration in his personal VIP room. He
has spun for athletes such as LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers;
Kobe Bryant and the Lakers; Dwyane Wade, Shaquille O’Neal and the Miami
Heat; Willie McGuinest, Richard Seymour and the New England Patriots;
almost all of the Boston Celtics; and celebrities such as Sean “Diddy”
Combs, R. Kelly, Bill Bellamy, Dave Chappelle, Bruce Bruce, John
Legend, Lionel Richie, Sinbad, Buffie the Body, Bria Myles, Esther
Baxter, Bobby Brown, Trina, Yung Joc, Slim from 112, Amerie, Cassie,
Kelly Rowland and Ryan Leslie. He has been the headline DJ for concerts
featuring Jaheim, Gucci Mane, Montell Jordan, Faith Evans, Mims,
Elephant Man, Beenie Man, Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz, Kelis, Fat Joe,
EnVogue, Musiq Soulchild, Gnarls Barkley and India.Aire.
 
But we haven’t even touched on Reggie Beas’ radio career. In 1999, the
radio bug bit him hard. He quit his job as a graphic design assistant
for Hale and Dorr LLP,
 a major Boston law firm, to pursue radio (and
spinning) full time. He started on the bottom rung as a mixshow DJ/part
time on-air personality for the legendary heritage black radio station
WILD-AM in Boston. He then became the first hire of the first (and
only) black FM commercial station in Boston, Urban Hot 97.7. He rapidly
rose through the ranks, moving from mixshow DJ/morning show
producer/swing shift on-air personality to become program
director/afternoon personality in 2005 of the revamped 97.7
(Urban/Urban AC hybrid WILD-FM), helping take the station to its
highest ratings ever. In 2002, Reggie became one of the mixers on
Superadio, a national syndication company. He produced Smooth Jam,
Classic Jam and New Skool Mini-Mixes, which were heard on over 40
stations around the country, including WBLS/New York and KDAY/Los
Angeles. He then moved in 2006 to Dayton, Ohio, to program Rhythmic CHR
Hot 102.9, helping keep the station #1 in their target demographic for
an unprecedented 4 straight ratings periods, and presiding over the #1
afternoon radio show for young adults the entire time he was at the
station.
 
And we can’t forget promotions. After moving to Dayton, Reggie was
shocked at the lack of upscale events. He was instrumental in creating,
promoting and/or spinning at 7 different monthly events in the area,
culminating in the designing and successful implementation of Sky
Lounge at Hammerjax, Dayton’s fi
rst weekly upscale urban event. After
moving back to Boston in 2008, Reggie concentrated on creating
signature weekly events that expand the boundaries of urban music.
Kings And Queens Sundays carved out a niche catering to upscale
individuals who crave more than the same Hip-Hop, R&B, Reggae and Old
School played by every other DJ. Like DJ AM and Sundays at LAX, no
matter where Reggie is in the world, he always comes back to Kings And
Queens Sundays to rock out at the place he calls home. And Reggie
continues to put on his wildly popular invite-only annual summer harbor
cruise, which has sold out every year since 1993.
 
Nightclubs. Promotions. Production. Radio. Internet. Touring DJ. “Big
Chicago” Reggie Beas continues to make his mark on anything he touches,
raising the bar and setting the standards for the next generation of
DJs to shoot for.

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