Mixmaster DJ Jenny Costa has perfected the art of mixing
music since her early teens. Fascinated by dance music, Jenny began to
collect Latin, Disco and R&B classics as a hobby and was inspired by her
father Angelo, a former orchestra musician. At age 16, Jenny mixed for the
original 92 WKTU playing current and up and coming dance cuts, which now are
dance classics.
Jenny was there at their beginning and has received
platinum albums for her help as a billboard reporter in promoting artists such
as Madonna, Jody Watley and Expose. Her passion for her work is undeniable.
The people who experience the euphoric atmosphere she creates with her music
can vouch for that. Jenny has worked in Europe and the Caribbean as well as
numerous venues in the United States. One of the only females in a male
dominated industry who has made a mark behind the wheels of steel, pumping out
hot dance tracks with different genres of music ranging from Latin, dance
classics and freestyle, to Hip-Hop, house and current dance.
If you ask Jenny what her favorite kind of music is she will always say she
loves it all, some of her favorite artists are Andre Bocelli, James Brown, P.
Diddy, Luther Vandross, Whitney and Barry White. Some of Jenny’s favorite
dance music however, is Salsa. Jenny a former ballroom dance teacher, can
turn it out on the dancefloor as well as behind the turntables… she is a true
entertainer in every sense of the word.
Jenny recently made radio industry history by becoming the
first ever to win the New York Metro A.I.R. Award for Best Mix Show DJ.
Governor George Pataki and Sean Puffy Combs were among the honored presenters
and guest speakers at the awards dinner that took place on March 3, 2004 at
B.B. Kings Theater in Manhattan.
Jenny started mixing for 103.5 the New KTU back in 1997,
every Friday night at midnight playing current house and dance tracks on Diane
Prior’s Ladies On the Turntables show. She also did the Saturday Night Dance
Factory and does the mid-day mixes for Diane Prior.