Luca Vanelli

Was born in 1982 in Vicenza near Venice, Italy. His passion for music started early when he would play with his father’s turntables every day and make mixed tapes with a cassette player.

He taught himself how to DJ at home as a teenager and was soon DJing in local bars and clubs with his friend Emilio Lavarini. By 2005,

Luca was producing house music and releasing his first tracks with Purple Music, Rule5, Mind the Gap, Karmic Power Records and Sensorama Records.

Over the next few years, Luca honed his skills as a DJ playing increasingly large venues all over northern Italy He founded ‘Damn! It’s Funk’ in 2012 with friend Daniele ‘Sexxx’ Sesso, a collaboration bringing together jazz, funk and house music.

Luca moved to London in 2013 to start a new career and continued DJing sporadically over the next few years. By 2018, he had built a new home studio and started producing house again, starting with Big Sur which was released by his long-time friend Diego Broggio, AKA DB Boulevard, now A&R at StreetLab Rec. In 2021, he released Poppin’ like with friend and DJ J Falluchi; the new track got 70,000 streams in its first three months. Luca will release more music in 2022 with StreetLab Rec.

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