OUR DJs
Sarah Genung
Sarah Genung started dancing tango in 2005 when she was a teenager in Spokane, WA and one night was all it took to instill a lifelong enchantment. She started DJing in 2013 and has since enjoyed playing at events in Colorado, Washington, Idaho, Michigan and Florida with Denver, CO as her current home. She most loves the expression, sound and stories of the Golden Age which is where her music is centered, but is also energized and inspired by the recent explosion in modern orchestras who keep tango music growing as a living art form. Her ultimate goal? To dialogue with the dance floor — crafting thoughtful tandas and fun cortinas that will light up dancers' eyes and fuel dynamic energy that carries their feet through the night.
Fatima Hirji
DJ FAH began her tango journey in the UK, where she was captivated by tango’s elegance, energy, playfulness, romance, and occasional quirkiness. Drawn to the rich emotional layers within tango movement, she finds inspiration in its inseparable connection to the music.
As a DJ, her focus is on crafting thoughtful, danceable tandas from the 30s, 40s, and beyond, inviting dancers to explore and express their own tango stories.
Now based in Colorado, DJ FAH DJs for local organizers and at festivals including TTX (Toronto Tango Exchange), Tango on the Rocks,(Denver) La Nuestra Tango (Philadelphia), Encuentro Close Encounters (Denver).and Encuentro De Los Peregrinos.(Kansas)
John Miller
John Miller has been DJing for over half his life, playing more than 1500 events across nearly every imaginable setting: seedy bars and warehouses, churches and beaches, weddings and funerals, high school sock-hops and wild house parties, beneath bridges, from century-old victrolas, and at dozens of festivals.
Tom Stermitz
Tom Stermitz has been a prominent figure in the evolution of Argentine Tango in the US since 1996 and one of the founders of Tango Colorado. He specializes in the Milonguero or Close-Embrace style of social tango, which he explored over multiple trips to Buenos Aires milongas since the 1990s. He has studied with a multitude of teachers from the various schools of tango giving him a deep knowledge of skills that bridge all styles. 25 years of teaching provides Tom with an arsenal of teaching techniques to enhance proficiency for all levels and styles.
Facundo Agüero Maisano
Facundo Agüero Maisano has been dancing for 13 years and exploring tango music and DJing for the last 11. He has DJed in Argentina and across the U.S., always prioritizing the dancers’ experience and maintaining a balanced flow throughout the night.
While deeply rooted in the classic Golden Era, he specializes in tango music from the latter half of the 20th century, seeking out its polished and evolved period—yet always with one goal in mind: keeping it as danceable as possible.
Grisha Nisnevich
Grisha Nisnevich is a dynamic and influential figure in the world of Tango and guitar. Renowned as a Tango instructor, musician, lecturer, and DJ, he brings passion and expertise to every aspect of his work. Grisha DJs in numerous international Tango events. His style of DJing is Traditional, Romantic, as well as according to the Tonalities and Contrast (like concert programs) in order to keep the attention of the audience. Grisha frequently adds to his DJed events with live guitar tandas for dancers.
Martin Rybczynski
Martin Rybczynski specializes in traditional tango. Martin likes to drive the tango experience to its peak, drawing from a wide variety of Golden Age classics. He carefully considers the emotional impact of the music on the dancers and weaves the mood of the evening with deliberate subtlety. Martin has been featured at tango festivals in Denver (Memorial Day, Labor Day, Natural Tango, Tango on the Rocks, Close Encounters), San Diego, Tucson, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque. He has dj’ed at encuentros in Salida, Santa Fe, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, and Tenerife. Martin has appeared at practicas and other local events in Boulder, Denver, Fort Collins, Philadelphia, Houston, and Asheville.
Martin Rubbiolo
Martin started dancing Argentine Tango 30 years ago in his native Argentina, where he would live and dance for four months every year. His Tango DJing came 9 years ago. He has played for events in Mexico, China, USA, and most importantly, Argentina. Every DJ playlist ranges from “I’ll teach you Tango music” to “I’ll play only what you know and like”. His style of playing ranges from what is most-liked to more modern, slow, dramatic. He plays 1940s, 1950s and the renditions of XXI century orchestras that imitate those same 40s and 50s great musicians.
Michael D’Elia
Michael D'Elia has been studying and dancing Argentine Tango consistently almost 20 years, in both roles. He began DJ'ing in 2011, and has since DJ'd across the United States and Europe at Milongas, Festivals, and Events. He is passionate about Tango music, both as a dancer and as a musician.
Michael prefers to emphasize Golden Age Tango music, and focuses on making the music he DJ's accessible to dancers from beginners to advanced alike.
Xiaoli Quispe
Xiaoli arrived in tango around 2009, and she has been a TC DJ since 2014 and has also been a guest DJ in other countries. she loves to play a continuous flow of music that takes dancers on a journey, creating the energy of the dance floor that blends with the different styles to enable a unique experience. Her vast tango music library allows her to constantly search and combine musical elements at the console to create a stream that the dancers can feel.
You can expect a unique and lively mix of traditional, modern and contemporary tango music that will entice you to have fun dancing. Main goal is to select music that people will enjoy.
Happy dancing!
Dave Jones
Dave has been a DJ with Tango Colorado since 2009 and is known for elegant, musical, and irresistibly danceable Argentine tango sets. A tanguero since 2004, he curates sets that respect tradition while keeping energy high, punctuated by fun, high-energy cortinas that keep dancers engaged between tandas.