Serginho
Genre: House
Origin: Portugal
Like so many others DJ from his generation, Serginho, started playing at friend’s parties in the beginning of 1995. But it was the following year that really saw him broke into the club scene, when he started a residency at Café da Praça: there, it took him only one and a half years for his performances become somewhat a cult.
Simultaneously, Serginho collaborated with the project UrbanSound where he secured a monthly residency and performed frequently in Club Rock’s. During this period, he also became a resident DJ at Bela Cruz and later he went back to the place where everything began, Café na Praça.
In 1999, with the opening of Club Voice, the career of the young DJ experienced yet again another impulse: his performances as resident DJ in the first floor of this venue in Porto have remained until today in the collective memory of the true house music lovers. Therefore it was not strange that Serginho got an invitation to produce his own show in Radio Voxx and, in 2001, a nomination for the Revista de Dança Awards, in the “Breakthrough DJ” category.
From then on, Serginho’s DJ skills were even more in demand: he performed in several venues and events, all over the country, including the autonomous regions of Madeira and Azores. During this period, he played in iconic clubs such as Vaticano Club, Hit Club, Buddha Club, Indústria Porto, Club Mau Mau, Swing, Maré Alta, Oito Graus Oeste, Via Latina, The Day After, Indústria Lisboa, Paradise Garage, Locomia and Kadoc (just to name a few), alongside top names of the dance scene, including DJ Vibe, Frank Maurel, Ralph Lawson, Miguel Migs, Little Louie Vega, Kings Brit, Dixon, Layo & Bushwacka, Charles Webster, X-Press 2, Josh Wink, Harvey, Giles Petterson, Jazzanova, Glimmer Twins, Idjut Boys, Tiefschwarz, Kid & Khan, Ivan Smagghe (Black Strobe), Spektrum, Ricardo Villalobos, among others.
In September of 2004, as the result of a strong and lasting relation with Indústria, Serginho was invited to be a resident DJ in this prominent club of Porto nightlife. He stayed for two years.
Since then, Serginho has performed regularly as a guest in several clubs. His performances in Pitch, Maré Alta, Indústria and in the “Reverse” nights, where he plays back-to-back with Zé Salvador, stand out as memorable. Serginho really imposes is own personal style – very distinctive, elegant and utterly contemporary, reasons for which his work is admired by the likes of Alex Kid and Radio Slave.
