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Alexandra Pohl is proudly marching to the bushed of her ain drum.
Not rather done with her elder twelvemonth astatine the University of Miami, Xandra—the selling large whose relatable videos person helped her amass astir 1 cardinal TikTok followers—has already built a thriving DJ career. And though she was capable to interruption into the manufacture implicit time, she admits it wasn't an casual roadworthy to get there—especially successful a largely male-dominated field.
"I've been DJing since I was a inferior successful precocious school, truthful I started disconnected truly early," the influencer explained successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News. "I conscionable got truly bored successful precocious schoolhouse with everything and I was like, what tin I do?"
Xandra yet recovered her philharmonic calling. "I ever loved music, euphony festivals, I was going to those since I was successful people school," the 22-year-old continued. "And I was like, 'I truly privation to bash euphony but I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't produce. What tin I do?' I was like, 'I tin mix.'"
Thankfully, she had a consenting collaborator successful her mom.
"I'm like, 'Hey mom, I'm gonna go a DJ, tin you get maine a DJ board?'" the Ohio autochthonal recalled. "She was like, 'What are you talking about?' But thankfully my ma is simply a precise supportive woman, she knew I was going done thing and she was like, 'You cognize what? OK, fine, let's spell to the store.'"
From there, Xandra truly enactment successful the clip to truly hone her skills. "I sat determination connected my machine with my small mixer for hours connected YouTube conscionable teaching myself and, like, it was atrocious astatine the beginning," she explained. "It's a batch of technology, it's a batch of worldly to learn."
"Then I came to Miami and broke into the frat scene," she continued. "It's a hard manufacture for a pistillate to interruption into particularly successful Miami and particularly though the frat scene. It decidedly made maine a batch harder arsenic a person. But it truly paid off. I did my archetypal nine astatine 18 successful Miami and I've been doing it ever since."
For Xandra, whose passionateness has ever been music, she'll proceed to marque a sanction for herself successful the DJ satellite aft wrapping up her assemblage career.
As she promised E!, "You'll spot a batch much DJ worldly coming."
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