Sappho is a queer musical artist, event producer and co-owner of Koritsi Komma Records based out of Portland, Oregon. Currently, they are a resident DJ at Underground SF in San Francisco, Bottom Forty based on the West Coast, and the following nightclubs and party series in Portland, OR: No Request, NoFOMO, Opal Underground, The Eagle PDX and Roller Disco DJ for the Rose City Rollers.
Harkening back to the most famous poet of antiquity who did not identify as a man, Sappho’s namesake has a strong connection to lesbian love and sensual empowerment. Much like the fabled name that they have built their base upon, they have often been the marginalized voice amongst a sea of male creatives. With over 20 years of involvement in the dance community, they are a mentor to queers and femmes in the craft of deejaying and a resource of underground nightlife culture. They have been changing the status quo with their deep research, guided by precise, almost librametric, methods, branching into new forms and combinations that weave an intricate modern day poetry for a current generation of souls, freeing them, to dance, to love, to feel - the way only a perfect stanza of poetry could elicit.
Harkening back to the most famous poet of antiquity who did not identify as a man, Sappho’s namesake has a strong connection to lesbian love and sensual empowerment. Much like the fabled name that they have built their base upon, they have often been the marginalized voice amongst a sea of male creatives. With over 20 years of involvement in the dance community, they are a mentor to queers and femmes in the craft of deejaying and a resource of underground nightlife culture. They have been changing the status quo with their deep research, guided by precise, almost librametric, methods, branching into new forms and combinations that weave an intricate modern day poetry for a current generation of souls, freeing them, to dance, to love, to feel - the way only a perfect stanza of poetry could elicit.
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Catching Up with Two of Portland’s Reigning Queer DJs: DJs Sappho and SILVERSOUND
Queer Dance Culture and Women in Electronic Music on XRAY.FM an interview with Sappho
Fault Radio Album Review: Sappho & Damon Boucher - The Desire Suite
Resident Advisor Music Review of the Single "I Want You" by Sappho & Damon Boucher
Interview with Architects & Heroes
Extended Interview with Form The Head
El Pais for DJ performance at Fiesta Xpansions
48 Hills for DJ residency at Underground SF
48 Hills for DJ performance at Polyglamorous
Interview with Willamette Week