Eric Visa NYC event DJ

New York City based provider of professional DJ services with focus on highly personalized customer-centric professional yet affordable DJ entertainment for your special event. Also available: DJ equipment & lighting rentals, sound reinforcement services, pro-audio systems consulting, corporate A/V Solutions, music & video post-production and editing services as well as custom music programming.

DJ Eric Visa

Eric Visa began his DJ career at the tender age of 17 as an unpaid guest DJ of the now defunct self-proclaimed “house of funk”, Boomerang Discotheque in Nairobi, Kenya. This was Eric's first exposure to club (read: house) music and the legendary Technics 1210MK II turntables. The Boomerang finally closed it's doors in the early 1990s and Eric moved on to the neighboring hot spot Bubbles Discotheque, where he befriended the local resident DJs by buying them continuous rounds of vodka in exchange for valuable spinning time.

With access to the more commercially-oriented top-40 play list at Bubbles, Eric finally landed his first paid residency at Nairobi's Hard Rock Café as Music Program Administrator and Head DJ. This is where he eventually schooled himself on all the classics: from 1930s & 1940s Big Band, Vintage Lounge and American Standards, through 1950s & 1960's Rock n' Roll hits and on to the early Motown sound of the 1960s, eventually to the Disco, Classic Rock and Alternative eras that punctuated the 1970s and 1980s dance clubs and FM radio dials.

With all this musical knowledge, Eric eventually moved to the UK where he acquired his Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications Technology. His days were spent at a global telecommunications outfit as a Project Manager and Commercial Analyst - overseeing various UK governmental telecoms projects. Meanwhile, his nights and weekends were spent at various clubs and event spaces all over London and the South East where he DJ'd at community events, private social affairs and corporate gigs.
Some of his favorite dates on the community calendar include the Notting Hill Carnival in the UK and Pride Parade in NYC. Next on the community agenda: Bastille in Paris, Oktoberfest in Munich, Cinco De Mayo in Mexico City, Nang Songkran in Bangkok and of course Jamuhuri Day in the beloved green city in the sun, Nairobi! But that's another story...

In 1999, Eric moved back to Nairobi briefly before heading over to Bangkok, Thailand with his corporate commitment. While working on a telecommunications project there, he found himself engaging one of his hip superiors in relaunching a trendy bar & lounge in Bangkok's notorious Soi Cowboy district. Specifically, he wired the entire joint for sound and lighting while filling in the weekend DJ slot and managing the entertainment schedule, which to a certain degree involved recruiting local DJ talent.

2000 found a very happy and excited Eric in transit to the Big Apple. Once in New York, the rug was pulled from under him on 9/11/2001 and, just as many lives were changed on that day, Eric found himself yanked mercilessly from corporate culture and back to DJing for a living; thus the genesis of EricVISA.com and the now infamous "Eric Visa, NYC DJ" persona.

Today we find Eric deeply immersed into what he loves to do most - the other "9 to 5"!

Eychenne Creative Audio by EricVISA

Eychenne Creative Audio (ECA) is a one-stop rental resource for small to medium-scale DJ, Sound and Lighting equipment as well as A/V and general Audio Reinforcement solutions. We mostly service events with between 10 and 1000 guests or in facilities measuring between 100 and 10,000 square feet. Our equipment is available for use in the NY, NJ & CT tristate area with additional inventory available in London and the rest of the South East region of the UK.
We're available for After Parties, Anniversaries, Awards Nights, Bachelor/Bachelorette Parties, Banquets, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Birthday Parties, Casinos, Celebrations, Christenings, Christmas Parties, Church Services, Clubs, Coffee Shops, Community Events, Conventions, Corporate Functions, Country Clubs, Cruise Ships, Dinner Dances, Festivals, Film Shoots, Fraternity Functions, Fund Raisers, Funerals, Graduation Parties, Grand Openings, Hotels, Jingles, Picnics, Private Parties, Proms, Resorts, Restaurants, Reunions, Showers, Ski Lodges, Sorority Functions, Studio Sessions, Temples, TV Shows (Live or Tapings), Weddings, Wrap Parties and much more.

ECA also provides audio (and video) consulting, installation & maintenance services to new and existing infrastructure. Additionally, we offer customized music and video content programming as well as post-editing services for use in various applications.

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Reviewed by Kewjin on October 13, 2010

So, it's been a sad 2.5 weeks since the best day of our lives. Anne and I were married at the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx and everything was perfect: the weather, the ceremony, the food, the flowers, and certainly our DJ, Eric Visa. We went through a very thorough process of interviewing 5 different DJs extensively, and we believed Eric to be the best fit because of his warmth, easy-going nature, passion for music, professionalism, flexibility, and experience. Eric was there early to set up and to watch the ceremony so that he could get a feel for his audience. With little input from us, but understanding the type of people we were and how we wanted the party to go, he constructed the perfect evening. He kept the older generation (ages 60s-70s) up and dancing for the first few hours (our fathers were even seen to be bumping their hips against each other!), all the while playing music that EVERYONE wanted to dance to. And then he ended with sets that would have kept any club going until the wee hours. In between sets, his professionalism and MC skills were beyond expectations and all in all, he was an integral and incredibly successful part of our wedding. We couldn't have asked for more. Thank you, Eric!