Edu Miranda DJ

Edu Miranda was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, Spain.
From a very young age, he was interested in traditional Cuban music and what we call "Salsa," as well as Bolero, as this was what he heard most at home from his father and older brothers. The Canary Islands have always been one of the global hubs for these rhythms, which greatly influenced his growing interest in learning everything about them. At the age of 14, he was already in charge of playing music at parties for friends, family, and even in his neighborhood, which led him to become interested in the world of DJing. He combined the technical side of the equipment with the cultural side, as, as far as possible at that time, he tried to learn everything related to the world of "Salsa," both from other professionals and from radio programs such as the legendary "Échale Salsita," which for him is the true "Father of Salsa" in the Canary Islands and perhaps in Europe, the great Javier Zerolo, who has been "Echando Salsita" to the world since 1983. When he had just turned 18, he told a famous DJ and dance teacher on the island, in what was then the largest Latin dance hall on the island of Gran Canaria, that he had been learning everything about the world of DJing for years and that one day he would like to take the step to become a professional. At that very moment, that person told Edu Miranda to go into the booth and that it was his, that he was going to dance, and to get people to enjoy themselves. All this without ever having seen him "spin," but even so, he gave him his trust. From then on, Edu Miranda began working as a DJ at different venues on the island, at events and parties. His first big event came on July 20, 1996, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where Edu Miranda was the official DJ for the great Tropical Tribute to the Beatles, which the great Maestro Tito Puente performed on the island alongside great artists such as Celia Cruz, Cheo Feliciano, Tito Nieves, Tony Vega, Jose Alberto "El Canario," and a long list of other artists. In front of almost 20,000 people and alongside these salsa legends, Edu Miranda performed his first major event as a DJ. Throughout his career, he has been the official DJ at large concerts with artists of the stature of Marc Anthony, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Oscar D'León, Willie Colón, Cheo Feliciano, Rubén Blades, Gilberto Santa Rosa, etc. He has also worked as a DJ in different parts of Spain, as well as in France, Germany, Italy, Equatorial Guinea, and across the Atlantic in places such as Miami (USA), Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic. Throughout his more than 27-year career, he has received several awards and recognitions for his work at the national and international level, for which he is always grateful, but he is always clear that the best "award" is seeing the audience enjoy his sessions. Edu Miranda has earned the respect of his audience, as well as that of great artists from the world of salsa, who often give him their new productions so that Edu Miranda can introduce them to his audience, both as a DJ and through the radio on various programs in which he participates. In recent years, he has become one of the DJs for the Canarias Salsa Open and España Salsa Open. Edu Miranda considers himself a scholar of what we know as salsa and traditional Cuban music. Over the years, he has enjoyed more than 200 live salsa concerts, seeing almost all the great artists and orchestras of the genre live, as well as sharing moments, meals, and above all, lessons with artists such as Don Rafael Ithier and almost all the members of the Universidad de la Salsa, with whom he has a long-standing friendship, as well as many other artists of the genre. He was recently included in the "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Salsa," a worldwide encyclopedia where you can learn everything related to the history of salsa. Edu Miranda is a DJ who not only likes the audience to dance and enjoy his sessions, but also wants them to learn about the genre and fall in love with what we call "salsa." Capable of getting excited by a live performance or the audience's applause, he is a DJ who loves what he does and continues to learn every day despite his many years of experience.