TONIGHT IN LA: Lioness LA's 4 Year Anniversary Party

Four years ago Lioness LA roared and the world listened! Come out to celebrate with Ladies Lotto's DJ Lady Sha and Aneesah in support of a great cause. Nightscape 2010 raises awareness for The Harmony Project

TONIGHT, Thursday, 6.17.2010
9pm-2am

Villa
8623 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood

Music by DJ Lady Sha
Art installation by Julia Rauda

RSVP to List@LionessLA.com for entry.
Complimentary entry, gift bags & special giveaways!

Sunkissed: Ladies Looking Out For Ladies

Lioness LA and Peace by Peace come together for the charitable event Sun kissed. This event is a fundraiser where all the proceeds will go to Peace by Peace. Peace by Peace is a organization devoted to improving the status of women. Don't forget to RSVP with list@lionessla.com.

Check out both Lioness LA the marketing and production firm putting this event together, on their website lionessla.com. As well as Peace by Peace and get to know their organization and what they are really about at peacexpeace.org.

She's A LLADY: DJ Lady Sha

1) How long have you been a Ladies Lotto member and how has it benefited you?

I've been in LL for a few years now and feel privileged to be apart of a network of women at the head of their industries. I love the company I keep when I get my daily digest and read what all the ladies are up to. I've partnered with several of the ladies in their events or in having them sponsor my events. Also, I love landing in a city and linking with a Ladies Lotto member that noticed my travels online. It's an instant comfort zone in new cities.

2) Being raised in LA, you were surrounded by other cultures and music. Did your parents take issue with your musical tastes, or did they embrace it?

My musical tastes were always my own... listened to in the privacy of my bedroom, headphones, or car (once I could drive). My parents left my taste in music alone. My dad listens to KCRW all day and my mom is a 80's & 90's pop lover.... I now love dropping some of the jams I'd hear on the radio stations they used to play.

3) Music is such a male dominated industry and it's hard for ladies to get props, particularly turntablists. What made you want to take that on?

I was always the girl that wanted to do the hobbies exclusive to boys. It began with guitar, then surfing, water polo, & finally DJ-ing. With DJ-ing, it satisfied my passion to pursue music while also being an immediate source of income. Ignoring the boys-club aura of it, I broke right into the professional DJ circuit after graduating from CAL. Ambition & hunger can make one circumnavigate any static.

4) How did you get your start DJ'ing?

I was a sophomore at Berkeley studying pre-med & anthropology while also taking on way too many extra-curriculars for my own good. My neighbor needed students to get funding for his DJ course on campus and begged me to enroll. I begrudgingly joined the course and within 2 weeks bought my own turntables & my path in life was drastically changed forever.

5) What DJ's (male or female) do you respect and who were you inspired by?

I have always been inspired by DJ Valida who holds the role of a female DJ down with such beautiful energy & warmth. Being a filmmaker, singer, model, & world traveler, she also reminds me it's possible to juggle many hats in life gracefully and never limit yourself. She was actually one of the first people that told me I should join Ladies Lotto.

DJ AM has been an inspiration to me not only in his talent as an incredible DJ, but as a human. At his memorial, one of his best friends said that AM used to advise his managers in business, "Be fair" and "Make sure our side of the street is clean." Additionally, many people had stories of how AM had helped them stay on their path of sobriety. As a DJ, he paved the way for people in our profession that play multi-genre sets to be able to someday make 20K a night & reach celebrity status unheard of before for a hip hop DJ. If I give my life's work the love, passion, dedication, and energy he gave to DJ-ing, I'll have succeeded.

6) You're the party-goer and not the DJ. What makes YOU want to move?

A DJ maintaining and building the energy of a night song to song without losing the dynamic of the beat in transitions. My favorite DJ's are ones that take me on a journey through memory lane, energetics, & vibe.

7) Which do you prefer? Spinning vinyl or digital?

Ideally, I love to spin digitally using serato with a vinyl interface on turntables. Best of both worlds.

8) The music industry has changed so vastly in the past 4 or 5 years. What do you think of the current trends in music and what do you miss?

I don't pay attention to current trends in music as much as I keep an ear out for innovative artists and those progressing the leading edge of their genres.
With music being as accessible as a simple & immediate download, there's been an increase in the amount of sounds I have to sift through to find gems, which is of course more time-consuming. I miss the feeling of buying a new album and listening to it over and over again while I pore over the cd's album art & insert.

9) To add to that, what artists are you absolutely feeling?

I could be here until next week answering that question because of the hundreds of mp3's I go through weekly. There's a fresh movement in LA's underground featuring earth shaking artists such as Rob Roy, Flying Lotus, & The Gaslamp Killer. Even if I don't fell an artist's entire repertoire, I always have a few songs every week that I cannot get enough of. This week, it happens to be Jay-Z's "Venus vs. Mars" off the new Blueprint 3 album.

10) You were already successful as a DJ, so what made you want to go a step further and start LionessLA? What do you hope to do with this venture?

LionessLA is a special events and marketing firm I founded with my business partner Aneesah Williams so that we could have the institution in place to create events we can call our own from their conception to their presentation. Instead of DJ-ing other people's events & fitting into their concept of nightlife, LionessLA is a way for us to produce events that combine our passions for quality music, live art displays, fine dining, fashion, & philanthropy. We began in 2006 with a mission to innovate Los Angeles nightlife with the LionessLA signature. With Los Angeles underway seasonally, we can now focus on collaborating with other cities around the world in addition to expanding Lioness Entertainment to take on other aspects in the music industry beyond event PR.

11) And lastly, we all know DJ's who don't seem to care about people sitting DOWN. What are your top five make-them-move, rump-shaking, no-parking-on-the-dance-floor jams of all time?

1. Get Your Freak On - Missy Elliot
2. Shorty Swing My Way - Kp & Envy
3. Shake it to the Ground - Rye Rye
4. Bucky Dun Gone - M.I.A.
5. Do My Ladies Run This Mutha - Memphis Bleek ft. Jay-Z

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Hear Me Roar! LionessLA Celebrates 3 Years

LionessLA invites you to celebrate their three year anniversary at Crown Bar for the annual Nightscape summer launch party.


TONIGHT
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
8:00p-2:00a

Crown Bar
7321 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90046

RSVP: LIST@LIONESSLA.COM for guest list. Entry is free on list.
Crown Bar serves appetizers, dinner, and full bar (Bottle Service Available: VIP@LionessLA.com)


Art Installations // Pop-up shop by Apartment 3 // Giftbags & giveaways from sponsors // Music by DJ Lady Sha & special live performances until 2am


On behalf of LionessLA & guests, Whole Foods will be making a donation to the Downtown Women's Center in honor of this event.


Supported by Vimby, UrbanDaddy, Fusicology, & CandiedCartel

Members of the Month - October 2008

Ladies Lotto Los Angeles

Shaden Tavakoli

A turntablist, musician, vocalist, and nightlife innovator, Shaden Tavakoli, aka Lady Sha, continuously returns home to LA a citizen of the world as reflected in her eclectic DJ sets. Gracing stages both nationally and internationally, Lady Sha is one of the world's top female DJ's. Most recently, she became the first female to win the annual Winter Music Conference DJ Spin-off in WMC history (Miami, 2008).

Born in Iran and raised in Los Angeles, Shaden was exposed to a wide range of music from an early age. Her training in turntablism began while attending UC Berkeley as a double-major in pre-med and anthropology. Upon graduating, she turned her focus completely to music. Spinning heated hip-hop sets fused with electro, soul, rock, house, reggae, and global sounds, she has moved dance floors worldwide. One of the few female DJ's rocking parties in Jamaica yearly and the first female DJ to spin live on South African airwaves (2004 southern Africa tour), Lady Sha innovates the music and nightlife industries universally.

In 2006, Shaden and partner Aneesah Williams co-founded LionessLA, a special events production and marketing firm dedicated to progressing nightlife with cutting edge music, art, and philanthropy. Currently Shaden produces several annual events for LionessLA, while also DJing full-time in Los Angeles and touring New York, San Francisco, Miami, Vegas and cities around the globe.

Ladies Lotto Chicago
Lola Jenkins

Coming of age on the west side of Chicago, Lola was deeply involved in service activities with organizations such as The Greater Chicago Food Depository and Girl Scouts of America. Demonstrating a standard for high achievement, Lola graduated from Spellman College in May 2004. Characteristic of her foresight concerning her early desire for a career in social service, she earned a degree in political science, with a minor in sociology.

Quick wit and sharp intellect have been the defining factors in Lola's quick rise, leading to a promotion to VP of Operations at the Westside Association for Community Action in early 2008. For years she's served the under represented and ill-served residents of the Westside of Chicago. She is an actively sought after voice, and can often be seen networking at major events to create bridges of opportunity for WACA’s diverse constituency.

She is a member of the Cook County States Attorney African American Advisory Board and a Gala Committee Member for ETA Creative Arts Foundation. She credits her mother’s life of service and her father’s innovative vision as the standard by which she measures any accomplishments in her personal life and career.

Ladies Lotto New York

Jerri Chou

Granola values, LA party style, and NYC work ethic. Sound crazy? It is. But what might seem like contradictory traits makes for a smooth bold blend of social action and just plain being social. More recently, Jerri has taken her understanding of brands, digital and holistic experiences to the social realm.

As founding partner of alldaybuffet, Jerri runs general operations, brokers partnerships and brings together creatives, thinkers, educators, nonprofits, and digital mavens to create and realize innovative solutions to the world's problems. She's also helped create Cause for Drinks, GOOD WOOD, and The Feast Social Innovation Conference.

A graduate of Boston University's school of communication, she lived a former life as an advertising account manager at Grey Advertising. She's since worked on everything from hyper local website editorial and development with Steven Berlin Johnson's Outside.in to interactive social media marketing. She has since been asked back to Boston University as a guest lecturer.

Ladies Lotto Seattle

Mia Beardsley aka DJ B-Girl

Mia Beardsley, aka DJ B-Girl has been a staple in the Seattle music scene since 2001. She DJs, produces, runs an independent record label called B-Girl Media, is a hip hop teaching artist, and coordinates a hip hop community group for women called B-Girl Bench. Her label, B-Girl Media was established in 2004 and is home to a select few of Seattle's most talented artists.

Many styles and influences in her music production run parallel to that of her crew, Project Mayhem, a mainstay in the Seattle underground scene since 2003. Her first full-length solo release called "Love or Fate" debuted worldwide in March, 2008. Her follow up project is a three-person collaboration under the name Knox Family, and is expected to make major waves this November.

She has her own radio show on KBCS 91.3FM, called Freshcoast Radio, playing the best local and independent hip hop. B-Girl currently teaches high school youth in a hip hop music program called Katalyst, passing on her knowledge and experience to the next generation.

This Weekend LA: LL Benefit for RAINN + Amy Frederick & Shopping!

Ladies Lotto & LionessLA presents:
Can.You.Dig.It.
Saturday Dec. 15, 2007
Doors open 9:30pm
Located at Tantra, 3705 West Sunset Blvd, Silverlake, CA 90026.

On December 15, Ladies Lotto & LionessLA presents the final installment of its innovative nightlife series for 2007 with Can.You.Dig.It., a Warriors theme party and Sagittarius/Capricorn celebration. This month's event will be donating proceeds to RAINN and features DJ's Lady Sha (LLLA), Step1, Puffs, & Bianca O'Blivion (LLLA). There will also be a special photography and art installation by KYLA. LionessLA invites guests to dress as their favorite character from the cult classic The Warriors (costumes are optional but warmly recommended). Guests will have free entry with rsvp to List@LionessLA.com and will enjoy free giftbags and giveaways all night long.

Can.You.Dig.It. will take place at Tantra, an exclusive Indian-inspired hideaway in Silverlake featuring fully stocked bars, a hookah patio, an exquisite menu, and superior interior design. With this event, LionessLA continues to expose our clientele to new heights of quality in art, music, and locations for a unique and unforgettable nightlife experience.

About RAINN

The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.

About LionessLA

Founded by Shaden Tavakoli (DJ Lady Sha) & Aneesah Williams, LionessLA is a special events firm geared towards innovating the Los Angeles nightlife experience. As an event planning, marketing & promotions company based in Los Angeles, California we are establishing a revolutionary movement in art, music, and other forms of self-expression. By hosting the finest events in the Southern California area, we seek to expose our clientele to the best turntablists, painters, musicians, cuisines, venues, and merchandise. Most importantly, we involve our events with charitable organizations that affect communities locally and globally.

AND BEFORE YOU HEAD OVER THERE:



What:
LOOK SHARP, URB's Holiday Shopping Weekend...including an afterparty at Xin

Where:
Fairfax District and Melrose District...basically to the south and west of the Melrose/Fairfax intersection. Specific participating store locations will be listed on urb.com/looksharp by Wednesday afternoon. The after party will take place at Xin Boutique on 8064 Melrose Ave.

When:
December 15th + 16th during each stores' hours (which will be listed on urb.com/looksharp)...but generally the shopping will take place from 12pm-7pm on Saturday and Sunday and the after party will take place from 7-10pm at Xin.

Why:
This area, Fairfax District and Melrose Heights has transformed and become just as noteworthy as the legendary "Melrose Strip" shops further east on Melrose.