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Last Updated on Thursday, 04 November 2010 23:11
In 1991, Marshall Thomas relocated to Atlanta, Georgia from Springfield, Massachusetts with a determination to take full advantage of being in the nucleus of the historically black college. As a student at Clark University, Thomas’s entrepreneurial education combined with his passion for music gave birth to DJ Mars.
Mars transformed a hobby into a craft by spinning in the school cafeteria for $75.00 a week, a fee he admits splitting with colleagues DJ Doc and DJ Trauma, and from this small partnership the World Famous Superfriends organization had emerged. Single handedly, the Superfriends reconstructed the business of being DJs by marketing themselves as an interchangeable unit that would lend credibility to any party scene. As time passed, the numbers, strength and authority of the WFSF grew to become the largest organization of DJs in the South East region of the United States.
To date, DJ Mars has personally spun at every club and major platinum party in Atlanta ranging from artists like Jay-Z and Diddy to Jermaine Dupri and Beyonce’. In 2010, DJ Mars also known as the “President”, finds himself with a host of duties relating to his profession having been the tour DJ for artists such as Monica, Kelis, Ne-Yo, and Ciara. Currently the resident world tour DJ for Interscope recording artist Keri Hilson. Mars also finds time to pen a column for Vibe Magazine and doing what he does best keeping the floors packed with people dancing.
“The pinnacle of my career for me was controlling a crowd of 300,000 disorderly people in the UK at the V Festival and transforming disorder into a party with my skills. At that point I knew I had it!”
My audience ranges from the hipster crowd to the vegas scene, and back to the hip hop side. My goal in 2010 and beyond is to make records for all of them, I want the entire world to bounce to my beat”.
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