DJ Ishani: 'My Journey as A DJ Has Been Incredibly Blessed and Rewarding'

The Mumbai-based selector opens up about being behind the decks for over a decade

- DAVID BRITTO

New Delhi-bred and Mumbai-based artist Ishani Majumdar aka DJ Ishani hails from a music-oriented family and she knew that music was always something she wanted to pursue. She says, “I knew it wasn’t going to be the traditional classical Indian music route that my mother and my grandmother were into but since music was definitely in my blood, it was just a matter of figuring out how to make it a career in a way that suited me.”

The career path that Majumdar chose is that of a DJ and she’s been spinning spellbinding sets across clubs and festivals around India for more than 10 years. We recently caught up with her to talk about what her journey has been like as a DJ, some of her milestones, what she has planned going forward and more. Read below.

When did DJing first pique your interest and do you recall the first time you wanted to be a DJ?

Sometime during my college years as I was clubbing in Bombay, it struck me that this was potentially a path I could pursue, so I decided to learn DJing and never looked back since.