About

ABOUT DJ ADÉ

Ayiti-born. Boston-raised. LA-rooted.

DJ Adé is a selector, sonic storyteller, and cultural worker whose sets are equal parts ritual and release. Their journey from block parties in Mattapan to underground clubs in South Central is braided with soul, survival, and spirit.

Adé came into music through motion — first on two wheels, then on two feet. After losing their car and housing during grad school, they turned to the bicycle as freedom. That movement led them to sound: crate-digging, DJing, curating, and eventually producing.

Their first major release, Give Your Body Up: Club Classics & House Foundations, was a tribute to the records that raised them — a sonic bridge between soul, disco, and the house foundations we still dance on today.

More than a DJ, Adé treats sound as ceremony. Their sets are woven with intention, drawing from ancestral memory, movement culture, and global Black traditions. Whether in a club, community center, or gallery, their work honors the dancefloor as a space of healing, memory, and liberation.

“I wanted to show where house music came from — who it was for, and what it was rooted in.”
— DJ Adé