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Superstar DJ Keoki (born October 23,1966, Keoki Franconi) is an Electronic music DJ who was born in El Salvador, but raised in Hawaii.[url = starbulletin.com/2001/12/07/features/story1.html] He had no experience as a DJ when he was branded Superstar DJ Keoki. It was infamous club kid Michael Alig who helped in the early promotion of his then boyfriend DJ Keoki.[url = www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0213,musto,33375,15.html]
BioKeoki Franconi was born in El Salvador but moved to Kihei, Maui, when he was 8.[url = www.famousdjs.com/biographies/keoki.htm] while also being a busboy at the city's trendy Danceteria club.
DJ Keoki
Club Kids and Michael AligWhile in New York City he met and began a romance with Michael Alig.
Dance music writer Jennifer Warner remembers,
Jennifer Warner
It was while DJing at Disco 2000 Alig's party night at the Limelight that one of the biggest myths about Keoki began, the one where Mr Superstar passed out on the turntables while doing a set, "I guarantee you that never fucking happened" states DJ Keoki. [url = www.djkeoki.net/] The myth is true, however the location is simply incorrect. The club at which Keoki passed out at, on the turn tables, was at Simon's Club in Gainesville, Florida. He also stole the club owner's car and disappeared, which caused him to be banned from DJing at the club. Franconi and Alig both developed expensive drug habits and began to grow apart. Alig's drug use indebted him to Angel Melendez, whom he murdered after an argument over many things including a long-standing drug debt.[url = www.thesmokinggun.com/longhand/riggs1.html] Subsequently, Alig became a fugitive from the law and Franconi broke all ties with him.
SuperstarFranconi cleaned up and went on to have a successful career during the late 1990s and early 2000s as Superstar DJ Keoki, releasing a number of CDs over that decade and he was hired to play for thousands of people at massive rave dances. In 2006 and 2007, he toured, dressed extravagantly, wearing makeup, and sporting a number of tattoos, in the United States and Europe on the Club Party Monster Tour, a tribute to both the Party Monster movie as well as a nod to the Club Kid scene that shot him into stardom.
Keoki still currently tours with several resident DJ performances at The Viper Room in Los Angeles California, Swag in Denver Colorado, Tantra in Tampa Florida, and Hard Rock Cafe in Fort Lauderdale Florida. Keoki also makes annual appearances in Moscow, Russia at the Gaudi Fest during the Halloween holiday.
Keoki is currently managed by the Texas company 220 Management.
In the summer of 2009, Keoki purchased a new home in Denver Colorado.
In 2009 He began working with SongPlacements.com, a company out of Hollywood that is working with Keoki on Television and Film placements.
Discography 2004 - The Great Soundclash Swindle
2003 - Kill The DJ
2002 - Misdirected Jealousy: The Remix Album
2002 - Keokiclash
2001 - Jealousy (also released in a Limited Edition 2XCD version with bonus CD w/ exclusive remixes)
2000 - djmixed.com/keoki
1998 - Altered Ego Trip (The Remix Album)
1998 - Inevitable Alien Nation
1997 - Ego Trip
1996 - Disco Death Race 2000
1996 - The Transatlantic Move
1995 - All Mixed Up
1995 - We Are One
1994 - Journeys By DJ
Popular Media- He is written about in James St. James book, Disco Bloodbath: authorlink = James St. James
- He was portrayed by Wilmer Valderrama in Party Monster, a biopic about James St. James and Michael Alig
- Interviewed in the Better Living Through Circuitry a 1999 documentary about Electronic dance music culture, and the first such full-length film on the subject.
- "Caterpillar" was featured in the Simpsons episode entitled "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish".
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