DJ Karsten Sollors is Spinning Into DC
06.01.2024 - 23:15
/ metroweekly.com
Karsten Sollors all but grew up in the air.“My mother was a flight attendant, so I’ve been traveling since I was in her stomach,” as he puts it. Because of that, he didn’t think twice about effectively giving up his weekends to become a professional DJ, traveling to a different city, if not two, every weekend.“A lot of people, when I tell them my schedule, they’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, how do you do that? That’s got to be so difficult,’” he says.
Instead, for Sollors, “it just feels organic,” a continuation of a kind of transient, adventurous, and globetrotting life and reality he’s always known. The native of Vancouver, Canada, says when he wasn’t in the air or on the road, he was “on the slopes.” He’s one of five kids in a blended “family of skiers and snowboarders,” a clan that includes a younger brother who has gone on to become a professional snowboarder.
Sollors credits his parents with serving as a catalyst for pursuing a career that strays from the conventional and ordinary, and also nurturing his love of travel and a similar adventurous spirit — something his mother certainly did by taking her two boys with her on one galavanting trip after another.“One time I remember her saying, ‘Okay, tomorrow we’re going to take you out of school and we’re going to go surfing in Hawaii,’” he says. “Another year, I think I was six or seven years old, I remember her [taking us] to Japan.”It was also his mother who helped cultivate his passion for music, something that sprouted from the time he went clubbing when he was significantly underage.“I went to my first rave [when] I was about 14 years old,” he says.
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