Scots DJ Hannah Laing quits day job to focus on music after amazing year and epic gigs
27.10.2022 - 18:53
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Scots DJ Hannah Laing has been going from strength to strength all year from gigs at TRNSMT and Creamfields and is now taking the plunge to focus on music full-time.
Hannah, 28, is a rising star in the music scene and has performed alongside Hollywood A-lister Idris Elba during his sets in Ibiza. The Dundee-based DJ had been working full time as a dental nurse as well as continuing her impressive stint in the party island all summer, but has now quit her job to focus solely on music.
Speaking to the Daily Record, Hannah said: “It’s obviously something I’ve always wanted to do music full time but more recently as things have blown up more. I was touring in the summer and I was DJing in Ibiza at the weekends and straight back into work on the Monday, so it’s been difficult. I think things were just getting too much so I knew it was the right time to leave.
“I am extremely nervous but also excited, it’s just because this is it, this is my full-time job so obviously there’s pressure there but at the same time I’m absolutely buzzing. This is what I’ve always wanted. It’s a pure dream.”
It hasn't been an easy journey for the Scots music sensation, as she was left devastated when the pandemic hit cancelling all of her gigs and her full-time employment at a dental practice.
After losing her two streams of income, Hannah who has 35.4k followers on TikTok, had to find others ways to make money and opted to take any job she could. She explained: "When the pandemic hit all the dentists closed and I lost all my gigs, so I had to just find any job I could get.
"I tried to work in the chicken factory, I tried to work at Hermes and I ended up working at a Tesco call centre for a good while before I could get back into the dentist.
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