Take a proffessional sportsman from Yougoslavia, a musicaddict x-punk/hippy from London, mix well = me, Cindy.  From my footballer dad, I inherited the love of sport, and the body in gracious moovement.  Brilliant memories of my childhood, when my dad’s team mates where Zidane, Dugarry and Lizzarazu.  Had I not broken my leg the day before the finals of the french accrosport championships, my life could’have taken completely different path.  Seeking refuge from another Break-up, that of my family and divorce, I searched for another balancing act to fill my life with, and replace the daily gymnastics training – and found it :  balancing the needle on the vynil. 

From my mad mum I inherited an entire musical univers, from Hendrix, to Sample, with all best of the 80’s, punk, rock, ska, soul, and 70’s funk : music was indispensible for daily life, no life without music.  I can thank Mum too for some great memories like my first rave at 13 on a cliffside in Bali, very Goa Trance.

It was just natural to start playing in public very early (and a material necessity).  Mum used to play in underground and private parties and used to take me along.  So at the tender age of Fifteen, I had my first residence at the Wax in Bastille where I had a monthly slot that I didn’t let go of for three years.  The sound I was playing back then tended more towards House- Deep Garage, dappled with a little Detroit, but gradually I slipped towards weirder influences such as Riccardo Villalobos, Ritchie Hawtins, Marc Houlle or again Hugg and Pepp, but I must say that the places and clubs that I played at where not really appropriate, I took a residence at the Bains Douches and a residence at the Gibus Paris where I got the opportunity to play alongside singers such as Barbara Tucker, Julie Mcknight Lisa Milet, Kathy Brown, after winning an FG radio dj competition, I was resident at the « LaLa Land » after at the Red light in Paris, and some Circoloco events (with Tania Vulcano, Josè de Divina…) or again the Scream afters (with Fafa Monteco, Fex, Jean Cedric, Marysol) where it was easier, and more interesting for me to play my style, that I would call Minimal deep minimal flowing sometimes into a harder tekno, but allways keeping the melody, allways groovy and funky at the same time, a sound that is decidedly more after and underground orientatted than the places I was invited to play in

A lot of things have happened over the past two years.  At the end of 2003, I became resident at Folies Pigalle Paris, where I play alongside of such great dj’s as among others, David Moreno, Charles Schilling, Eric Powa, Sin Plomo and Gee Moore…it works, and the turn table get worked to a frenzy.  I’m asked to organize parties and afters, allowing me freedom to pick my guests, Paris’s club scene was not really what we could call « minimalist », at the least it was difficult to find really good nights, with good dj’s, and cool place, the party people and ibiza vibe ; minimal tek music is not easy in all clubs and is not accessible for all crowds.  So I said to myself it would be a good oportunity to invite dj’s unlike those most commonly found at the moment, different from the « fashionable dj’s », I therefore wanted to invite dj’s from that musical universe and that had not yet come to France : Locodice, Timo Maas, Josè de Divina, Phonique….it was different, new, the clientele took to it, and I stayed at Folies for about two and a half years, I still mix there but as a guest !!

I really wanted to start working on the production side, and made an error of judgement, I signed a contract the terms of which had to be respected even if I wasn’t that happy with the result, and more importantly, losing contrôle over a lot of aspects of my work and portrayal.  So I had to respect the promotional side of the single which kept me busy for a time and its release : Ladies Light (with Falco production at Sony BMG) was a success going straight into the club hits at n° 21.  A very commercial house track, featuring vocals by Ange, the corresponding video got a lot of airplay on M6 music, MCM, and MTV, all this along with a promoting tour throughout France.  I can say that my first single did well, but didn’t reflect the style of music that I play.  September 2004, returning from Ibiza (after playing at the Full Moon, El Ayoun, La Diosa soirée « Zénith »…) I started my radio show on Fun Radio, every Saturday night from 23h to 1am, « Club Station », where the show got the top national ranking spot  for housse radio  broadcast throughout France and belgium.  I was also the first girl mixing on french national radio.  The programme lasted for a year with audience ratings increasing by 20%.  To end the year in style, mixing in St Bart , and it goes on, 2005…..Playing all over France, but also Marocco (I have a weekly show on 2M), italy, Portugal, Ibiza where I mixed on « Global Radio » for Andy Wilson,and mixed with Dan Guenacia, and end August in China Shanghai for Ibiza Voice.

Today I am 20 years old and playing a new tune.  I’m working under a new Alias : Karmina - Sort of turning a page, making a new begining : The year kicked of with the new years party at Escape, Amsterdam and flying the 1st to Rome to play at the Goa club after party, and a recent back to back with Mathew Jonson…..I’m also working on my  productions which will this time will be decidedly more minimal, something I can be proud of, and be closer to me, where I want to go. And this time, I’m doing it myself.
Whilst waiting for these releases, which need devotion and work, I carry on mixing all over the world, sharing the vibe, and the tickety tack.