Getting Americans to swoon on his music

New York-based DJ Bijal aka Mr Everywhere is one of the most influential hip-hop DJs on the east coast of USA.
He's also the first Indian DJ to have his own syndicated urban radio shows which are aired in 10 countries across the world with three more radio stations added this month. France, Netherlands, London, Virgin Islands... you can hear him everywhere indeed along with his online presence on AOL Radio, Desi Hits Radio and Yo Raps.
Born in Surat, he came to US a year after his parents, middle-class tobacco wholesalers, decided to pursue the American dream. Throughout his adolescence, they moved from town to town along the Northeast Coast, living at times in motels. "We had no camera, TV, video games or anything nice, all money went into buying my clothes and food," reads his biography.
As a teenager he learnt to play a record from his cousin and started messing around with some turntables his uncle brought over. Within a few months, he paraded to an electronics boutique in Manhattan and bought his first pair of turntables.
Later, he started to do private parties, followed by mixtapes at home and quickly got attention. In 2001, while attending Long Island University in New York City, he landed his first weekly gig at Club Exit in NYC. With trendy mixtapes under his belt he harnessed his cult following.
In fall 2005, The Ave Magazine dubbed him DJ Clue of the Indian urban music market. "I feel Indian artists fusing their sound into hip-hop or R&B have the potential to create the next wave of music. What I like to do is slowly work some Indian artists on my own mixtapes and put them alongside hip-hop and R&B heavyweights," he said then.
In February 2004, Bijal joined forces with well-known mixtape master DJ Kurupt, The Master Jedi to create Team Jedi. Within a few months, Team Jedi was branded by MTV as 2004's DJs On the Rise and the partnership gave birth to Bijal's first commercial release on vinyl, Sumeet and Jay-Zs Agony-DJ Bijal Remix, which was featured on Jedi Blends Volume 3. "We were managed by AV8 records back then, which is one of the largest hip hop distributors of vinyl and I started releasing mixes through them," he says.
Though now he operates on his own, there's no looking back for this 25-year-old self-made DJ who comes out with two-three mix CDs every month and plans to expand his show to more radio stations in future.