Today we’d like to introduce you to Elizabeth Javier.
Hi Elizabeth , it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
My journey with music started long before I ever became a DJ. Music was always around me growing up, and my dad played a huge role in paving the way for the relationship I have with music today. He exposed me to so many different sounds and gave me that curiosity to explore music beyond whatever was popular or right in front of me. Looking back, I think a lot of the way I listen to and search for music now started with him.
Music was also something I naturally gravitated toward throughout school. I was always joining chorus, choir, or whatever music group I could be a part of. Singing was one of my first real forms of musical expression, and I loved being surrounded by other people making music. If there was an opportunity to be involved with music somehow, I wanted to be there. Over the years, that curiosity expanded into playing guitar and bass, experimenting with synthesizers, and learning to experience music from more than just the perspective of a listener.
I’ve also always been a digger. I could spend hours on the internet going down musical rabbit holes — finding an artist, then discovering who influenced that artist, stumbling across a random remix or edit, and somehow ending up in an entirely different genre by the end of it. That process of discovery became a huge part of who I am creatively.
I never wanted to stay inside one musical box. I was drawn to everything — house in all of its different forms, Black house, Detroit techno, ghetto tech, juke, footwork, baile funk, hip-hop, boom bap, edits, indie, rock, alternative, world music, electronic music, and honestly just weird music that I couldn’t always put a name to. If something made me feel something or made me stop and think, “What IS this?”, I wanted to hear more.
Eventually, DJing became another extension of that curiosity. It started from a genuine obsession with music and wanting to share everything I was discovering with other people. When I started krazydazie, I was still figuring everything out learning how to DJ, developing my sound, finding confidence behind the decks, and understanding what kind of artist I wanted to be. My earliest mixes and sets were nowhere near perfect, but I kept going. Every opportunity taught me something and helped me become more comfortable taking up space as an artist.
As I grew, Orlando became such an important part of my story. Being surrounded by so many talented DJs, artists, collectives, promoters, and creatives helped me find community and gave me opportunities to experiment with my sound. House music will probably always have a special place at the center of what I do, but I never want someone to be able to completely predict what they’re going to hear in a krazydazie set.
Depending on the room and the moment, I might move through different styles of house, funk,rap, ghetto tech, baile funk, juke, footwork, edits, hip-hop, boom bap, alternative sounds, global influences, or something completely unexpected. I love finding connections between genres that might not seem like they belong together.
That’s also one of my favorite things about DJing: putting people onto something new. There’s something special about watching someone react to a song they’ve never heard before and knowing that maybe they’re going to go home, search for it, and fall into their own musical rabbit hole. That feeling of discovery is exactly what made me fall in love with music in the first place.
Over time, something that began simply because I loved music turned into opportunities I once would have dreamed about. I’ve had the chance to DJ and be involved with events connected to Rolling Loud, EDC Orlando, Art Basel, Bktherula, Sammy Virji, Kanye West, and Congressman Maxwell Frost, along with so many local events and spaces that have been equally important to my growth. I also have a recurring mix with Sector, which has given me another space to share the music I love and spotlight sounds and artists that deserve to be heard.
But I think one of the biggest lessons in my journey has been realizing that growth isn’t always linear. There have been moments where I felt like I had incredible momentum and other moments where I questioned whether I was doing enough or whether people would forget about me. I’ve had to learn that being an artist isn’t only about constantly being booked or visible. It’s about continuing to develop your craft, staying curious, building genuine relationships, and remembering why you started.
Right now, I’m experiencing one of the biggest transitions of my life: becoming a mother. Being pregnant while continuing my journey as a DJ and creative has completely changed my perspective. At first, there was a fear that motherhood might mean losing a part of myself or slowing down everything I had worked for. Instead, I’m beginning to see it as the start of another version of myself. I still want to DJ, sing, create, dig for music, experiment, build community, and continue growing krazydazie now I just get to bring this new chapter of my life with me.
When I look back at where I started, I can trace so much of it back to being that kid surrounded by music learning from my dad, joining chorus and music groups at school, singing, picking up instruments, experimenting with sounds, and getting lost on the internet searching for something I had never heard before. That curiosity never really left me. It just evolved into krazydazie.
I’m still evolving, and I definitely don’t feel like my story is finished. If anything, it feels like I’m entering a new beginning as an artist, a woman, a mother, and someone who wants to continue contributing something meaningful to Orlando’s music community while always staying curious about what I might discover next.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Hell no not even close. And honestly, I think that’s one of the most important parts of my story.
My journey has been extremely up and down. There have been moments where everything felt like it was happening at once amazing opportunities, incredible shows, meeting people I admired, feeling like I was finally building momentum and then there have been periods where everything became quiet. Those quieter moments were probably some of the hardest because they made me question myself. I would wonder if I had lost my momentum, if I wasn’t working hard enough, or if people had forgotten about me.
One of my biggest struggles has actually been getting out of my own way. I have so many ideas and so many things I want to create, but consistency hasn’t always come naturally to me. I’ve struggled with procrastination, overthinking, getting overwhelmed, comparing myself to other artists, and sometimes becoming too comfortable when I should have been pushing myself creatively. There have absolutely been opportunities where I look back and think, “I could have done more with that.” For a while, I carried a lot of regret about that.
The music industry itself can also mess with your confidence. There are moments when you’re booked everywhere and moments when you’re watching other people receive opportunities you wish you had. Social media makes it even easier to convince yourself that everybody else is moving faster than you. I’ve had to learn that another person’s success doesn’t mean I’m failing and that constantly measuring myself against other artists will make me forget everything I’ve already accomplished.
I’ve also had to learn how important community is while accepting that not every relationship or space is going to be for me. Finding where you genuinely belong as an artist takes time. I’ve experienced feeling overlooked, questioning whether I was being seen, and wondering where I fit within the scene. But those experiences also pushed me to become more intentional about the people I surround myself with and the type of community I want to contribute to.
And now I’m navigating probably the biggest change yet: pregnancy and becoming a mother while still being an artist.
That has brought up fears I never expected. I’ve wondered whether taking time for myself or my family would make people forget about me. I’ve worried about losing momentum, losing opportunities, or even losing the version of myself that existed before motherhood. There are days when I’m exhausted and my body simply cannot move at the same pace my mind wants to. Learning to respect that has been difficult for someone who always feels like she should be doing more.
But I’m also realizing that slowing down doesn’t mean I’m finished.
If anything, all of these struggles have forced me to redefine what success looks like for me. I’m learning to give myself grace while still holding myself accountable. I’m learning that I don’t have to chase every opportunity, that my career doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s, and that there is room for me to evolve without abandoning who I was before.
There are things I would absolutely do differently if I could go back, but I don’t think I would erase the difficult parts. They’ve made me hungrier, more self-aware, more intentional, and much more appreciative of every opportunity that comes my way.
So no, it definitely hasn’t been a smooth road. But somehow, through every stop, restart, doubt, and transition, I’ve always found my way back to music. I think that says more about how much I love this than a perfectly smooth journey ever could.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Most people know me as krazydazie and primarily know me through DJing, but I’ve never really seen myself as just a DJ. I’m a creative person at heart, and music happens to be one of the biggest ways I express that.
As a DJ, I think what I’m most known for is digging and not being afraid to take people somewhere unexpected. I’ve always been someone who can spend hours going down internet rabbit holes looking for music. I love discovering an artist, tracing their influences, finding an obscure edit or remix, and somehow ending up somewhere completely different from where I started.
My sound can move through house in all of its different forms — from Chicago, soulful and deep house to jackin’ and Afro house — alongside Detroit tech, Chicago house, ghetto tech, electro, juke, footwork, baile funk, Jersey and Baltimore club, UK garage, breaks, hip-hop, boom bap, edits and global club sounds. But I also pull inspiration from R&B, funk, soul, indie, alternative, rock and experimental music. I’m a digger at heart, so sometimes the best way to describe my taste is simply: if it’s good, interesting or a little weird, I’m probably going to find a way to play it.
I don’t want people to come to a krazydazie set already knowing exactly what they’re going to get. One of my favorite feelings is playing something that makes somebody look toward the DJ booth like, “Wait… what is THIS?” I want people Shazaming songs. I want someone to leave one of my sets having discovered an artist, genre or sound they didn’t know before. Putting people onto music has always been one of my favorite parts of DJing.
I’m also getting back into producing music, which I’m extremely excited about. Production is something I explored before, along with playing guitar and bass, singing, and experimenting with synthesizers, but it’s something I want to take much more seriously in this next chapter. After spending so many years discovering, collecting and playing other people’s music, I’m excited to take everything that has influenced me and start creating sounds that are completely my own.
Something a lot of people who know me through music probably don’t know is that I once had a successful bakery and food business. That was another completely different creative outlet for me, and it’s something I would love to bring back as well. There was something really special about taking an idea, creating something with my own hands, building a business around it, and then watching people genuinely enjoy what I made.
I’m at a point in my life where I’m revisiting a lot of the dreams and projects I started but never fully finished. For a long time, I think I felt like I needed to choose one thing and make that my entire identity. Now I’m realizing that being interested in many different things is actually part of who I am.
I want to produce. I want to DJ. I want to sing and play instruments again. I want to create content. I want to bring ideas to life visually. I want to explore bringing my food business back. And there are still things I want to create that I probably haven’t even discovered yet.
There are a lot of goals I haven’t accomplished yet, but instead of looking at that as failure, I’m starting to look at it as possibility. I still have so much I want to learn, experience and create.
What I’m most proud of is that through everything, my curiosity has never disappeared. Even during periods when I wasn’t creating as much as I wanted to or felt like I had lost momentum, I never stopped loving music. I never stopped digging, discovering, imagining or thinking about what I could make next. Now I’m learning how to turn that curiosity into action and actually finish some of the things I’ve dreamed about for years.
I think that’s ultimately what sets me apart. I’m not interested in fitting perfectly into one box, musically or creatively. krazydazie is constantly evolving because I’m constantly evolving. Whether I’m behind the decks, in front of a synth, picking up an instrument, behind a camera, in the kitchen, or working on an idea I haven’t told anyone about yet, I genuinely love creating and discovering things.
And I feel like I’m only getting started.
We all have a different way of looking at and defining success. How do you define success?
I think my definition of success has changed a lot over the years. I used to associate success with the obvious things bigger bookings, recognition, being busy, being seen, and constantly feeling like I was moving up. And of course, I still have huge goals for myself. There are stages I want to play, music I want to release, places I want to travel, businesses and projects I want to build, and things I haven’t even dreamed up yet.
But now, success feels much more personal.
Success to me is being able to look back at my life and know that I actually tried. That I didn’t let fear, procrastination, comparison, or being too comfortable keep me from finishing the things I knew I was capable of. I don’t want to spend my life wondering what would have happened if I had just gone for it.
It’s also having the freedom to create without putting myself into one box. I want to be able to DJ, produce music, sing, play instruments, build businesses, create content, explore food again, be weird, change my mind, learn something completely new, and still feel like all of those things belong to me.
Becoming a mother has changed that definition even more. Success now also means building a life where I can be present for my family without completely losing the person and artist I was before becoming a mom. I want my child to grow up seeing someone who continued to dream, create, take risks and pursue the things that made her feel alive. I think there’s something powerful about being able to show your child that your dreams don’t have an expiration date.
And ultimately, I think success is peace. It’s being proud of the person I’m becoming, having people around me that I genuinely love, being able to take care of my family, creating things that mean something to me, contributing something meaningful to my community, and waking up excited about what I’m building.
Awards, recognition and big opportunities would be incredible, and I’m definitely going after them. But if I can eventually look back and say, “I didn’t leave my dreams unfinished,” I think I’ll consider that a pretty successful life.
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