Birth name Jennifer Lee Years active 2008–present | Name Jennifer Lee Occupation(s) DJ, producer | |
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Labels Ultra Records, Brainfeeder, Ramp Recordings, Young Art Records Genres Hip hop production, Electronica Albums Midnight Menu, Half Shadows, The Attention Deficit, Creature Dreams, Desiderium Profiles | ||
Tokimonsta little pleasures ft gavin turek
Jennifer Lee, better known by her stage name Tokimonsta, is an American producer and DJ from Los Angeles, California. She has collaborated with Thirsty Fish, Kool Keith, MNDR, and Anderson Paak. She has also remixed tracks by Andreya Triana, Daedelus, Jodeci, and Justin Timberlake.
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- Tokimonsta little pleasures ft gavin turek
- Artist roundtable zedd tokimonsta and hit boy native instruments
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Albums
- EPs
- Singles
- Productions
- Remixes
- References
Artist roundtable zedd tokimonsta and hit boy native instruments
Early life
Jennifer Lee grew up in Torrance, California, in Los Angeles County. She is of Korean descent. She graduated from University of California, Irvine with a degree in business and later worked for a video game producer.
Lee was classically trained as a pianist. She first started working on beats while in college, when she participated in workshops by Leimert Park's Project Blowed and Low End Theory.
Career
Lee was invited to attend the Red Bull Music Academy in London in 2010. She was the first woman to sign to Flying Lotus's Brainfeeder label and released her first album, Midnight Menu, in November 2010 on Brainfeeder. She was rated the #1 Hottest Los Angeles Lady DJ by LA Weekly in December 2010.
She released the EP Creature Dreams, also on Brainfeeder, in 2011.
The next year, she released Boom, an 11-track collaborative project with Suzi Analogue as Analogue Monsta.
In 2013, her second album, Half Shadows, was released on Ultra Records. In 2014, she released Desiderium on her own Young Art Records. She returned to the Red Bull Music Academy that same year as an alumni lecturer.
She produced Gavin Turek's You're Invited in 2015 on Young Art Records. On September 9, 2015, she announced on Twitter that her new solo album will be called Fovere and she will be out on tour in support of her new album starting November 9, 2015.
Personal life
Lee was diagnosed with Moyamoya disease at the end of 2015.