DJs

Sabah Chammas (San Diego)

"Tango music occupies my thoughts and energizes my spirit and I am in constant search for good music. Although I try to vary the music I play, I am heavily influenced by the style of dance in Buenos Aires as well as the music played at the milongas there so feel free to call me old fashioned. I live for Golden age music. For me the emotional impact of a tango is what makes it so powerful, I look for that in all my music.

Oddly enough, alternative music has also become a big interest especially world music. Now I DJ both categories at various festivals as well as locally in San Diego.” www.tangoyak.net

Tine Herreman (New York)

Tine Herreman plays devastating tangos, soaring valses and irresistible milongas. And some very groovy alternative, when the crowd is so inclined. She creates a warm and genial mood for the dancers to enjoy each other's embrace. She has a vast collection, but every song she plays is a greatest hit. As a dancer, Tine likes to lead and follow uncomplicated tango with sophisticated musicality.

Tine deejays at big and small milongas in New York and the Northeast, and occasionally beyond. Festivals included the Portland Tango Fest, NY Tango Festival, Tango de los Muertos, the Atlanta Tango Fest, the Yale Tango Fest, and others. She has played all-night events in Montreal, San Francisco and Europe. She hosts and often DJs Tango Lounge (Friday), Tango Loft (4th Saturday) and Tango Fix (Mondays) in New York.

Tine is pronounced like "Tina".

Lampis Zalavras (Los Angeles)

Lampis has been fascinated by tango and continuously tries to expand his understanding of this complex art form. He strongly believes that appropriate music is a critical factor for an emotionally fulfilling evening of dancing and he aims to achieve exactly that with his music selections. He focuses on traditional music that brings the dancers on the dance floor and keeps them dancing until the very end of the milonga.

He has been invited to the Denver, Portland, Houston, San Diego, Chicago, and Ann Arbor festivals, to San Francisco, New York, Europe, and Asia, as well as to special events including the Thing and NYE milonga in Portland, the Oxygen Marathon in Los Angeles, and the East Coast Tango Marathon in Providence.

Varo Boyajyan (Los Angeles)

Knowing how important music is for a good social tango experience, Varo has been extensively studying the tango music, composers, band leaders, and styles. He has become a very well respected DJ in the community, regularly playing music at the “Tango Fusion” alternative milonga, UCLA Milonga and many other elegant and traditional milongas in Los Angeles. He has also been invited on many occasions to guest-DJ at the “DIVO” Milonga and the “El Encuentro” Milonga in LA.. Varo was recently DJ at the Otros Aires Concert in Los Angeles and was a DJ at the 2009 Tucson Tango Festival and is a featured DJ at the 2010 Tucson Tango Festival. www.varotango.com

Paul Akmajian (Albuquerque, NM)

Paul has been dancing tango since 1998 and teaching for the last six years. His love for the music and travels to Buenos Aires led him to begin building an extensive collection of songs and become a DJ. He has been a steady in DJ in Albuquerque for almost 10 years and in the last four years he has DJ’d at festivals around the country, including Seattle Tango Magic, Chicago Tango Mini-Fest, Hot Winter Tango in St. Louis, the Tucson Tango Festival and for numerous special events and milongas in Los Angeles, Seattle, Phoenix, Tucson, Salida, CO and Santa Fe, NM. As a DJ, Paul strives to keep everyone energized and dancing by playing the best, most familiar, time-tested and dancer-approved music from the Golden Age of Tango.