One set of facts, three lengths
Write the facts once, then cut them to three sizes. Each size has a different reader.
- One line, about 10 words. Instagram, a line-up poster, the top of your press kit. What you play and for which room.
- Short, about 60 words, three or four sentences. The event listing, a festival app, the promoter's post. This is the one people actually paste.
- Full, about 250 words. Your press kit, your Resident Advisor page, a journalist who asks.
The sources agree on keeping it short when you are starting out. Pirate suggests that a DJ starting out keep to “around 300 words, or half a side of A4 paper”.[1] DJ TechTools goes shorter: “Newcomer bios should be 5-6 sentences (at most)”.[2] Write in the third person: the promoter pastes it under your name without rewriting it.
Example 1: hard techno, Tbilisi
Hard, fast techno for rooms with no windows.
Keti Karst plays hard techno between 148 and 160 BPM, cut with industrial noise and EBM basslines. Since 2023 she has closed Depot Nine in Tbilisi every month with a four-hour set. In 2025 she toured Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic and released the Corrosion Theory EP on Ferrite Tapes. She co-founded Kvali Collective.
Keti Karst is a Tbilisi DJ who plays hard techno between 148 and 160 BPM, cut with industrial noise, EBM basslines and records most of the room has never heard. She learned to mix on two borrowed turntables in a flat in Vake and spent four years behind the bar of the city's after-hours scene before anyone gave her the closing slot.
Keti Karst is an invented artist. The full press kit, with this bio in place: press-kit.cloud/epk/keti-karst.
Why it works: a tempo range instead of three genre names, one residency with a frequency (“every month”), one release with its label, one human detail (the bar). A promoter can check every claim.
Example 2: weddings, Tuscany
Weddings and private parties in Tuscany, from the aperitivo to the last dance.
Duccio Vanni plays weddings in the villas and farmhouses between Florence, Chianti and the Val d'Orcia, and he plays the whole day: jazz and bossa for the aperitivo, the first dance from the couple's own edit, then a dance floor for every generation. He brings his own sound and ceremony microphones, and works on the microphone in Italian, English and German.
Duccio Vanni is an invented artist. The full press kit, with this bio in place: press-kit.cloud/epk/duccio-vanni.
A wedding bio is read by a couple and a planner, not a club booker. It answers their questions: which part of the day, which languages, what he brings. More on that in the wedding DJ press kit guide.
Example 3: disco and edits, Lisbon
Rita Veludo plays Italo, Portuguese boogie, 80s Brazilian soul and her own edits of Cape Verdean funaná, rarely above 118 BPM. Since 2021 she has run Domingo Lento, a monthly rooftop day party in Marvila, Lisbon. Her edits come out on her own label, Mão Cheia, as numbered 12-inches. She plays vinyl and USB in the same set.
Rita Veludo is an invented artist. The full press kit, with this bio in place: press-kit.cloud/epk/rita-veludo.
The last sentence is practical: it tells the promoter to have a turntable in the booth. A bio can carry one line of logistics.
Example 4: deep house, hybrid set
Jun Arbor is a Seoul producer who plays deep house as a hybrid set: two decks, a sampler and hand percussion over his own records, at 116 to 122 BPM. Since 2023 he has played the open-air circuit in Korea and Japan. His album Slow Weather came out on Ondol Records in 2025.
Jun Arbor is an invented artist. The full press kit, with this bio in place: press-kit.cloud/epk/jun-arbor.
Example 5: hotel lounge, Dubai
Kabir Noor has held hotel residencies in Dubai since 2016, five nights a week from sunset to midnight. Dinner is downtempo, nu-jazz and bossa; when the tables turn into a bar, deep house and soulful edits. He trained as a sound engineer before he played a set, and keeps the music under the conversation.
Kabir Noor is an invented artist. The full press kit, with this bio in place: press-kit.cloud/epk/kabir-noor.
For a hotel or a restaurant, volume is a selling point. Say that you control it.
Example 6: no residency yet
Most bios on this page lean on a residency or a release. If you have neither, write about the room you want and the proof you do have: a mix series, a night you run, a radio slot, the shop where you dig.
[Name] is a [city] DJ who plays [what, with a tempo or a mood] for [which room or which hour]. [He/She/They] started at [where you actually started] and runs [a night, a mix series, a radio slot]. [One recent, checkable fact: a set, a support slot, a mix on a named platform.]
Four sentences, every one true. That is enough to get a first booking read to the end.
A skeleton for the full version
Pirate's structure, in three parts: an intro of “a couple of short sentences” saying who you are and what you do, a main paragraph of achievements, then a short close on what comes next.[1]
Paragraph 1 (2 sentences): Name, city, what you play and for which room. One detail only you have. Paragraph 2 (4-5 sentences): Where you started. Your residency or your night, with the venue and how often. Releases with label and year. Two or three places you have played, with the year. Paragraph 3 (1-2 sentences): What you are doing now and next: a release date, a tour, a new night. Something a journalist could ask about.
What to cut
- Clichés. DJ TechTools lists the ones promoters have read too often, among them “I discovered music at the tender age of 5” and the list of famous names you shared a bill with.[2]
- A wall of genres. Pirate advises describing your sound with adjectives rather than a list of micro-genres.[1] A tempo range and a room say more than five genre names.
- Anything not true. “If you haven't played that club […] get rid of it.”[1] A promoter can check a line-up in one search.
- Old news. DJ TechTools says to update the bio at least once a year; “dated information” is “a fast-track to the trash bin”.[2]
Before you send it
- Read it aloud. If you run out of breath in a sentence, split it.
- Check every venue, label and year against your own records.
- Put the short version first in your press kit, the full one under it.
- Send it as text, not only inside an image or a PDF, so it can be pasted.
The bio is one of five things a press kit needs. The other four are in what to put in a DJ press kit. To send it to a promoter, there are five emails to copy in DJ booking email templates.
On PRESS-KIT.CLOUD
The form has a one-line tagline field (up to 120 characters) and a bio field (up to 4,000 characters, plenty for the full version). Both go on your public page and in the PDF, as text a promoter can copy.
Sources
- Will Bradbury, DJ and promoter, “How To Write A DJ Bio”, Pirate (studios for musicians), 23 March 2022
- “The Dreaded DJ Bio: Six Tips to Make A Good One”, DJ TechTools, 17 August 2014
All read on 2026-10-22.