DJ Colette

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DJ Colette
Birth name	Colette Marino
Also known as	DJ Colette, Colette
Born	1975
Origin	Chicago, Illinois
Genre(s)	House music
Occupation(s)	DJ, Singer
Label(s)	Om
Website	http://www.djcolette.com

Colette Marino, known as DJ Colette or just Colette, is a house music DJ and vocalist from Chicago, Illinois. She is a resident DJ at the SmartBar in Chicago, Illinois (along with Kaskade and others). She first gained attention when she started singing over her mixes as DJ.^[1] ^[2]

In 1993, she helped form the group SuperJane with DJ Heather, DJ Dayhota, and Lady D.

During the preparations for her album Push, she married actor/rock music star Thomas Ian Nicholas.

In 2003, she was, along with Paul Van Dyk and Felix da Housecat, chosen to advertise Motorola's cellular phones. Her song used in this commercial would go on to win Dancestar's Best Song Used in a Commercial for Motorola^[1].

Her album Hypnotized was the most downloaded house dance album on Apple's iTunes Music Store in June 2005.^[3]^[4] Her song What Will She Do for Love from this album was a Billboard No. 1 Dance Club Play Single.^[3] The title track, Hypnotized, was licensed to the movie The Devil Wears Prada for the soundtrack.^[3]

She hosted Lancaster, California, KVVS-FM radio station's show, Maximum Rotation.^[3]

She has performed all over the world, including Cambridge, Singapore, Calgary, Canada, Hollywood, and Montreal, Canada.

She has been compared to Kylie Minogue^[3] and Deborah Harry.^[2] She's also been called Om Records' First Lady of House.^[3]

1 DJ Colette albums
2 Affiliate artist albums
3 References
4 External links

[edit] DJ Colette albums

Push DJ Colette - (2007)
Hypnotized DJ Colette - (2005)

[edit] Affiliate artist albums

Soulstice - Illusions (2001)
Andy Caldwell - Universal Truth (2006)
Rithma - Music Fiction (2000)
Mark Farina - Air Farina (2004)
Mark Farina - Connect (2003)
Colossus - West Oaktown (2005)
DJ Colette - Hypnotized (2005)
Kaskade - It's You, It's Me
Strange Fruit Project - The Healing (2006)
Zion I & The Grouch - Heroes in the City of Dope (2006)
Bassnectar - Underground Communication (2007)
Miguel Migs - Those Things (2007) (on Migs' own 'Salted' label, a sublabel of OM Records)
Chuck Love - Bring Enough to Spill Some (2007)
Zeph & Azeem - Rise Up (2007)
Samantha James - Rise (2007)