DJ Blakey | |
Birth Name: | Richard Blake |
Origin: | London, UK |
Genre: | DJ |
Years Active: | 1999–present |
Website: | http://www.soundcloud.com/blakeydj |
DJ Blakey (born 3 September 1985) is a DJ from London, England. He won the UK DMC final in 2004.
Between 2004 and 2007, he hosted a weekly show on BBC 1Xtra.
He has held a residency at Fabric, London.
In 2007 he supported Jurassic 5 throughout their entire UK tour, and has also supported Nas in 2007 at the Bristol Academy, and Jay-Z in 2004 at the Prince's Trust Urban Music Festival.
He was employed by FreeStyleGames, a subsidiary of Activision, where he was working closely on the video game DJ Hero.
He collaborated with composer Daniel Pemberton as a scratch DJ on the score for the movies and .