Lisa Lashes

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Lisa Lashes early in her career at The Refinery in Burton upon Trent

Lisa Lashes (born Lisa Dawn Rose-Wyatt in Holbrooks, Coventry, England), is a leading English hard dance DJ.

An established and popular DJ in the UK hard dance scene, Lisa Lashes was one of the pioneers of UK hard house, a genre that was developed in the UK during the 1990s. Also known as the Queen of Hard House,^[1] Lashes plays styles including hard house, hard trance, psychedelic trance and techno.

Lashes formed The Tidy Girls with fellow female UK DJ Anne Savage. Now, under new management, she is working more or less without a regular DJ'ing partner. Lashes plays mainly in England, but also plays around the world including U.S., Republic of Ireland, Canada, South Korea, South Africa, Japan, Australia and China. Lashes is part-resident in Ibiza during the summer season, with her own Lashed in Ibiza nights at Eden nightclub.

Lashes has her own record label, Lashed, and has previously released mix albums released by Telstar, Tidy Trax and Ministry Of Sound.

Lashes was the featured artist on the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix on October 1, 2000 and December 5, 2004. Lashes is the first and only female to be considered among the top ten DJs in the world by DJ Magazine, ranking ninth in 2000 and continuing as the top-ranking female DJ in 2001, 2002, and 2003.^[2]

In 2007 she fell to no. 83 in the DJ Magazine poll, but won the highest hard dance DJ award as well as being the highest woman, with techno DJ Magda being the only other female to make it into the top 100.