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“Music has always been the catalyst to my fire – it speaks to me and transcends me into a different state of mind,” says Nouf Sufyani, Saudi Arabia’s first female DJ. Born and raised in Jeddah, the former dentist was always musically inclined.
As a child she often collected cassettes and recalls working with music production software FL Studio in high school. After getting her Bachelor’s degree in dental and oral surgery she started connecting with the local electronic music scene in 2016.
“It was very niche at the time and inspired me to have my own experience – mixing dance music as an underground DJ.” Naturally, leaving her career as a dentist was scary given the music scene was limited at the time, but as a believer in calculated risks, she took the plunge. “When I was a dentist, I was assisting an orthodontist professor and he noticed I brought my laptop to the office daily and created music in between appointments. He told me, ‘My daughter, you should be a DJ… it’s better for you.’” Sufyani has since performed at some of the most renowned music festivals including Ultra Miami, Exit Festival, and Soundstorm. “I enjoy the look on people’s faces when I tell them I’m from Saudi,” she says.
