FROM SCRATCHING VINYL IN UNDERGROUND HIP HOP CLUBS AT THE AGE OF 15 TO PLAYING THE MOST EXCLUSIVE PARTIES WORLDWIDE, SWITZERLAND‘S DJ CRUZ CAME A LONG WAY. WHAT STARTED AS A PASSION IN THE BASEMENT TURNED INTO AN IMPRESSIVE JOURNEY WITH RESIDENCIES IN , LONDON, MILANO, NYC AND DUBAI, PLAYING EVENTS LIKE FASHION WEEKS, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, ART BASEL, GRAND PRIX CELEBRATIONS ON YACHTS IN MONACO OR OPEN AIRS AND FESTIVALS. NOT ONLY IS DJ CRUZ ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER OPEN-FORMAT DJS IN THE GAME, HIS OWN MUSIC HAS GAINED SUPPORT FROM THE LIKES OF TIESTO, DJ SNAKE, AND MORE. BUT IN HIS OWN WORDS, HE‘S JUST WARMING UP... JOIN THE JOURNEY! DJ Cruz was first exposed to the world of DJing thru „scratching“ while listening to the DJ at the skateboard contests he used to compete in. After ABOUT ME spending hundreds of hours practicing his craft, At the same time Cruz started producing his own he made his first mixtape and sold it outside of music and eventually releasing it, having seen Underground Hip Hop clubs, scoring him the op- Superstars like Tiesto, Avicii or DJ Snake playing portunity to play his first opening sets. Barely his tracks on the main stages of huge festivals. To two years later, Vincent Dubinsky became the re- further focus on music production, Cruz moved sident DJ of Club Kaufleuten, one of the best Clubs to New York for a couple months and graduated in Switzerland and with that starting to get atten- at a Music Production Course. Simultaneously, tion in the scene. At 19 years old, Cruz decided to Cruz and his team founded the label Unashamed leave the safety and security of his well paying job Luxury, organizing events in several venues in at a private bank to follow his deep-rooted pas- Switzerland, hosting a Radio Show and selling sion for mixing and producing music. The key to merchandise. In 2018, they will expand inter- his steadily growing success is his totally open nationally meeting the steadily growing request format approach to mixing Electronic Dance from clubs for the brand. Meanwhile, DJ Cruz Music, Hip Hop, Rock n Roll, Trap and Twerk to- has been given several awards, mentioned in gether with his knowledge of club music, fueling his Friday‘s Magazine 30 under 30 and is to be found sets with energy, innovation and long experienced within Switzerlands WhoIsWho. His reputation crowd-reading. At the age of 20, he started playing has brought him performances for companies his first international gigs which quickly resulted like Calvin Klein, Redbull, Mac Cosmetics, Uber, in a jam-packed agenda of traveling from Europe Nike, Swarovski and many others. At the end of to the US, Asia and back headlining some of the 2017 he signed with an international Manage- worlds best venues such as 1oak in New York, ment company and as of 2018 will be releasing his Vip Room in Dubai, Gotha in Cannes, Pangaea in new tracks on a major music label. Stay tuned, as Singapore, Armani in Milano and l‘Arc in Paris. DJ Cruz is only just warming up... , , Snoop Dogg, Asap Rocky, Kelly Rowland, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne are only a few names, for whom DJ Cruz has either DJ‘d for during their performances or played their After-Parties.

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– DJCRUZ.COM – Gotha, Cannes. Rick Ross. 2017 Robin Thicke Cruz has DJ‘d for the SUPPORTING performance of these acts, or their After-Parties. ACTS ASAP ROCKY RICK ROSS FUTURE LIL WAYNE JUSTIN BIEBER CHRIS BROWN RIHANNA TRAVIS SCOTT KELLY ROWLAND French Montana Chris Brown THE WEEKND Richie Akiva WILL.I.AM AKON SNOOP DOGG Future ROBIN THICKE WYCLEF JEAN WILL SMITH TY DOLLA SIGN FRENCH MONTANA Justin Bieber MARK RONSON AND MANY MORE Busta Rhymes

ASAP Rocky Kanye West

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CORPORATE CLUB CLIENTS: MERCEDES REFERENCES REDBULL SWISS AIRLINES WORLDWIDE: YVES SAINT LAURENT CALVIN KLEIN KAUFLEUTEN (Zürich) BOSE MAD (Lausanne) GAIO SONY GREENGO (Gstaad) (St. Tropez) JIMMYZ COOP KINGS (St. Moritz) (Monaco) SWAROVSKI 1OAK (New York) OPERA (Stockholm) NIKE UP&DOWN (New York) VIP ROOM (St. Tropez; Dubai) BLACKROCK TRYST (Toronto) LA GRANGE (Courchevel) ARMANI ARMANI (Milano, Dubai) FRATELLI (Bucharest, Mamaia) OBEY AVALON (Singapore) SPIRITO (Brussels) SHOKO BASELWORLD PANGAEA (Singapore) (Madrid) JIMMY WOO CARLTON MOVIDA (London, Dubai) (Amsterdam) LULULEMON CUCKOO (London) TWIGA CLUB (Tuscany) ESTE LAUDER MASON HOUSE (London) BABY (Munich) WORLD POLO LIBERTINE (London) GIBSON (Frankfurt) 3+ TV DRAMA (London) MOONDOO (Hamburg) PASSAGE MAC COSMETICS BUNGALOW 8 (London) (Vienna) PRIX PHOTO L’ARC (Paris) GOTHAM (Luxembourg) RANGE ROVER MATIGNON (Paris) H&M MAISON BLANCHE (Paris) GOTHA (Cannes) CRYSTIES (Cannes) KORI (St. Tropez)

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UNASHAMED UNASHAMED RADIO SHOW UNASHAMED LUXURY After Cruz won the Swiss Nightlife DAY-PARTY Award for Best Open Format DJ, the What‘s nicer than dancing in the Next to DJing and producing, Cruz Zurich based Radio 105 station ap- sun with your friends at the lake? also runs his own Party label called‚ proached and offered him his own The Unashamed Day Party was the ‚Unashamed Luxury‘. For the past 5 monthly Radio Show. Only a short logical evolution of the successful years, he hosted his sold-out event time later it became the audience’s party concept at night. Since 2013, DJ at the famous and prestigious club favorite show and is now also broad- Cruz & his team organise an annual Kaufleuten in Zurich every second casted in Germany, Belgium, USA Day Party at the exclusive Strozzi‘s month. Influenced by all his travels and occasionally other countries. DJ venue at the lake of Zurich after the globally, every event is dedicated to Cruz takes his listeners on a musi- holidays to kiss the summer good- another theme making each night cal journey from Electronic Dance bye. Tickets are sold out immedia- unique, crazy and surprising. From Music to Indie, Deep, Hip Hop, and tely, tables are booked out and the fire spitters to burlesque dancers, back up to House. Keeping it for- beautiful memories last forever. magicians and live bands, spectacu- ward thinking and open minded to lar decoration to LED shows, there is all kinds of musical genres. not much left DJ Cruz and his team haven‘t already done.

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