Born Charissa Saverio to an Italian father and an Irish-Malaysian mother in Singapore, DJ RAP spent her childhood traveling the world - Indonesia, Malta and Africa were all home for a while. As a child her two loves were playing piano and horse-riding. She’d practice the piano six hours a day and spend the rest of her time in the stables dreaming of being a pianist. When the family moved to Southampton, England in her early teens, she discovered pop music for the first time and after leaving school took time out to travel the world, backpacking through Greece, Turkey and Europe. She eventually returned to London and joined a legal firm, first as a secretary, then training to become a lawyer. Her life, for the first time in years, seemed to be following a normal, everyday course. It was from this bliss that Charissa morphed into DJ RAP. “She ditched her job, kicked out her difficult boyfriend and discovered raves.” “I can remember when my biggest dream was to be on a Raindance flyer,” she closes.”Once I’d achieved that I found myself constantly on the look out for other things to stimulate and motivate me. From as far back as I can remember, my goal has been to sing songs to huge audiences but if someone would have asked me ten years ago thatDJing would open those doors for me - I wouldn’t have believed it. Although I really enjoy touring and singing with the band, the best part of what I do is when I get up there and play great records - I’m a DJ at heart -
I just want to get the crowd moving.”
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