DJ Lea
also plays Berlin — 2 nights
Lea (Leanna Yip) is a Brooklyn-based DJ, house music producer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist.
Trained in classical and soul gospel music, Lea’s productions span the genres of NY underground, soulful, deep, and afro house. Her productions include several chart-topping dance hits played by the most respected DJs on the international house music scene.
Her releases include "Songbird" (co-written and co-produced with Muzikman Edition featuring South African vocalist Tweety) and "Joburg" (a collaboration with Oscar P), both released on Open Bar Music. The Atjazz love soul remix of Songbird (released in December 2020) was #1 on the Traxsource Top 100 Chart and awarded the 2020 Remix of the Year by the Bembe DJ Music Awards.
Other prominent releases include her house remix of James Brown’s “It’s a Man’s World” and the Rose Royce 70s soul classic "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" on Exemplary Music Makerz. Her releases are on notable imprints such as Open Bar Music, Soundmen on Wax, Deep Culture Music, TSTC and Exemplary Music Makerz.
The rest of it — one more paragraph
As a DJ, Lea frequents the decks at legendary parties and venues across New York City and Brooklyn such as Le Bain at The Standard Hotel, Soul in the Horn, TBA, LP n Harmony, and The Funktion House. She is a member of Afrokinetic, a DJ collective that organizes events to build the NYC dance culture community.
Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.
Records out on Open Bar Music, Soundmen On Wax and deep culture music. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
2026
- Sun 18 JanNowadaysfirst time
2025 — 3 nights
- Sat 13 Dec 2025Starchild Rooftopfirst time · The Ornate Project
- Sun 21 Sep 2025Dead Letter No. 9their 2nd night · Dead Letter No 9
- Sun 13 Jul 2025Dead Letter No. 9first time · Dead Letter No 9
Their rooms
One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2023, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.
- Dead Letter No. 9Jul 2025 – Sep 20252 nights
Once each: Nowadays and Starchild Rooftop.
Who they play with
Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.
- Sid VagaDead Letter No. 9 ×2 · Jul 2025 – Sep 20252 nights
The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography, the labels and the photograph are Resident Advisor's. Nothing on this page was written for it.