New Music Alert: DJ Ruth Flowers

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4 Mar, 2010 Music You Should Know

I guess they’re right, old people, though slow and dangerous behind the wheel, can still serve a purpose.

Yo, Ruth Flowers has been behind the 1s and 2s since DJ Paulie D’s PARENTS were in diapers. Clad in her leopard-skin shrug and dark sunglasses, 69-year-old Ruth Flowers has conquered French clubland from the Cannes Film Festival to the top Paris nightspots with a mix of old-school hits, electrobeat and bling-bling style. Check out her first track here.

“It started really when my grandson had a birthday party … they always have a little disco, don’t they, after the party. I went along quite late and the gentlemen at the door said, ‘I don’t think you want to go in there, Madame’. And I said, ‘Well I rather think I do’,” she said.

“I went in and it was very noisy and the lights were flashing, but there was an awful lot of energy and joy.”

While Flowers, a trained singer, was more used to church songs, German lieder and classic pop, she was so taken by the party that she decided there and then to become a disc jockey.

“I had no idea at the time of electro music,” she said.

However, as someone with interests ranging from history to theater and fashion, she was willing to learn.

A friend put her in touch with French producer Aurelien Simon who taught her how to spin and helped her to develop a style, sprinkling her techno sets with tunes from Abba, Queen and the Rolling Stones. Read more here

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