Spotlight On DJ Karizma

Karizma's musical career started with him djing at age 13, doing various fashion shows and college parties, later on he landed a radio show on Baltimore's college radio station WEAA, playing hip hop. at the same time playing at various clubs around the city, with an obvious love for house music. He would often bump into Dj Spen and bug him for advice, As fate would have it Spen and Karizma would work together at radio station V103. This prompted the two to work together on his 1st Jasper Street Company album project. Karizma contributed the song E.B.W.2.R.T.W(Everybody wants 2 rule the world) and programmed drums on the track "Temptation". After this Spen&Karizma worked on Kim English "Tomorrow", Mary J Blige "Beautiful", Kenny Bobien "Let Me Show You" and SuSu Bobien's "Thank You" . The rest is history... Spen and Karizma (now with Basement Boys productions), went on to remix Everything But The Girl, Amira, Lenny Kravitz, Ann Nesby, Ron Carroll, Roy Ayers, Boris Dlugosh, Bob Sinclar, Kathy Brown, Jocelyn Brown, Ministers De La Funk, just to name a few. It was also in these remixes Karizma developed the "Deepah Dubs" and "Deepah Ones" moniker. Flashing forward ...after a healthy career of remixes and productions, Karizma struck out on his own a formed Kohesive Productions. His first production "Samma Ganni" was released on Basement boys imprint "Elephunk". Many of his productions have championed the likes of Louie Vega, Simon Dunmore, Dj Spinna, Marques Wyatt, Tony Humphries, Gilles Peterson, and many more. Karizma is also an accomplished international dj, one of the most innovative on the scene.