Invasion of Privacy: Vivacious Statemen DJ enlightens student population on endeavors
Tom Wilder
Issue date: 4/9/09 Section: Knights' Life
For the past five and a half years, Geneseo has been graced by the humorous, outgoing presence of Adrian "DJ Guapo" Molina.
Molina is best known from his part-time job DJing at the Statesmen, where an amalgam of townies and college students can be found grooving to his beats.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Molina's hometown is right next to the DJing capital of the world: New York City. He fondly describes his childhood home of the Bronx as "a condominium that looks like a housing project," where he and his older sister, Roseda, were raised by their mother.
Said Molina, "I've always been the man in the family because I was raised by my mom and my sister while growing up." Molina also identifies with his Puerto Rican heritage - both of his parents are from Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. "Like quesadilla, but instead it's Aguadilla," he chuckled.
Molina attended the St. Raymond High School for Boys, and it was there that his love of music first began to take shape. As he described it, his first major foray into music was for a ninth grade art project. At 13, Molina produced what he now calls "a disasterpiece of music," creating beats using an MTV Music Generator game, and then crudely recording four hip-hop songs using a dilapidated stereo.
Molina's passion for music continued to grow throughout high school. He recalled having freestyle rap battles with Louie McCroskey of Syracuse basketball fame during homeroom, playing the guitar and lyrically excelling thanks to his flair for poetry. By the time he hit the Geneseo campus, Molina was a well-rounded musical tour de force.
In his freshman year, Molina was involved with WGSU. Not satiated by his weekly slot on-air, he began DJing in a number of venues. While DJing for a fraternity party, a Zeta Beta Xi member dubbed the charismatic disc jockey "DJ Guapo," a synergy of his passion for music and his Puerto Rican heritage. The nickname stuck, and Molina adopted it as his stage name while DJing, even going so far as to mix a split-second audio clip into his remixes.
Molina is best known from his part-time job DJing at the Statesmen, where an amalgam of townies and college students can be found grooving to his beats.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Molina's hometown is right next to the DJing capital of the world: New York City. He fondly describes his childhood home of the Bronx as "a condominium that looks like a housing project," where he and his older sister, Roseda, were raised by their mother.
Said Molina, "I've always been the man in the family because I was raised by my mom and my sister while growing up." Molina also identifies with his Puerto Rican heritage - both of his parents are from Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. "Like quesadilla, but instead it's Aguadilla," he chuckled.
Molina attended the St. Raymond High School for Boys, and it was there that his love of music first began to take shape. As he described it, his first major foray into music was for a ninth grade art project. At 13, Molina produced what he now calls "a disasterpiece of music," creating beats using an MTV Music Generator game, and then crudely recording four hip-hop songs using a dilapidated stereo.
Molina's passion for music continued to grow throughout high school. He recalled having freestyle rap battles with Louie McCroskey of Syracuse basketball fame during homeroom, playing the guitar and lyrically excelling thanks to his flair for poetry. By the time he hit the Geneseo campus, Molina was a well-rounded musical tour de force.
In his freshman year, Molina was involved with WGSU. Not satiated by his weekly slot on-air, he began DJing in a number of venues. While DJing for a fraternity party, a Zeta Beta Xi member dubbed the charismatic disc jockey "DJ Guapo," a synergy of his passion for music and his Puerto Rican heritage. The nickname stuck, and Molina adopted it as his stage name while DJing, even going so far as to mix a split-second audio clip into his remixes.
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