Joe Gauthreaux

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Joe Gauthreaux (born Joseph Edward Gauthreaux, Jr.; 16 August 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana), is an American house music DJ and producer. In addition to his production and DJ work, Gauthreaux is also a reporter for Billboard magazine. He currently resides in New York City.

Background

Gauthreaux graduated from East Jefferson High School in Louisiana. He has one sister who is a year and four months younger than he. Before becoming a professional DJ in 1996, he worked as a bus boy at a local Chuck-E-Cheese.

Career

Professional DJ

Gauthreaux was introduced to the club scene at an early age of 16 and immediately fell in love with the industry. His first official DJ job was in Baton Rouge during Mardi Gras. Because he started out at such a young age, he experienced discrimination against some older and more established DJs and club-goers. He spent the first half of his career in his hometown in New Orleans, where he became a resident player at a club called "Oz" (a club which had been affected by the Hurricane Katrina). He later joined Centaur Entertainment, an independent record label for other acclaimed DJs such as Tony Moran, Ultra Nate, Boy George and Junior Vasquez, for his production work. In 2003, he decided to expand his career and moved to New York City, a risk that paid off as he quickly found fame in the Big Apple in less than a year. He was then accepted as one of 140 distinguished DJs responsible for compiling Billboard magazine's weekly Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

Barona

Barona is a border district ("quartiere") of the city of Milan, Italy. It is part of the Zone 6 administrative division, and it is located south of the city centre. Its population can be roughly estimated to 85,000 (official data are not available as districts are not formal divisions). It borders on the comunes of Buccinasco, Assago, and Corsico and the districts of Lorenteggio and Torretta. Its boundaries are marked by the Parco Agricolo Sud Milano nature reserve to the south, by the Naviglio Grande and Naviglio Pavese canals to the east and to the west, and by the Circonvallazione ring road to the north (more specically, by the Viale Cassala and Viale Tibaldi avenues.

Barona is a mainly residential district, and one of those having a higher proportion of green areas still devoted to agriculture. The most typical features of the agricultural areas in Barona, as well as in the neighbouring semi-rural districts and comunes, are the water-meadows and paddy fields.

It has two main urban sub-districts, Sant'Ambrogio I and Sant'Ambrogio II. Sant'Ambrogio I has landmark, curvy buildings, constructed in the 1960s, housing about 5,000 people. Sant'Ambrogio II developed between the 1960s and 1970s and has prefabricated apartment buildings of simpler design. The district includes two well known community centres, Barrio's and Villaggio Barona.