Ayanna Heaven is a DJ, radio, and event producer living in Brooklyn, NY. She spent her childhood in her native St. Mary, Jamaica, in the golden age of Jamaican dancehall of the 1990s, followed by ten years in Atlanta, Georgia, at the apex of Southern hip-hop. She moved to New York City in 2010 to pursue studies in ethnomusicology at The New School. She can be heard weekly playing soul and funk on WKCR's long-running "Across 110th Street" program, as well as monthly on her show "Sounds of Heaven" on The Lot Radio. With sets ranging from roots and rocksteady reggae to afrobeat, hip-hop, dancehall, and funk, she brings a passion and the cachet of a diverse background to her DJ aesthetic and event curation.
