Shiva

Shiva's love of music was sealed at an extremely early age when at 6 years old, she started piano lessons, quickly becoming a classically trained pianist, with concerts under her belt by age of 10. She had no choice : coming from a family of musicians, she expanded her musical spectrum very wide and after 10 years of studying in a conservatory, including dabbling with acoustic guitar, she moved on to become a jazz singer, singing in several lounges around Europe. At 23, Shiva was discovered for her external beauty and became a model, soon hitting the international scene in a very strong way. Her collaboration with world designers such as Valentino, Versace, Armani, Dior, Gucci, JP Gaultier, Elie Saab, Zuhair Murad among others put her on the forefront of the modeling industry in Europe and especially in the Middle East.

Having left her birth home of Romania, Shiva fell in love and adopted her new city and country : Beirut, Lebanon. It is here where her modeling career flourished for several years but her love and need for music never died. Being immersed in the small and underground electronic music scene in Lebanon and Middle East, Shiva (real name Loredana aka Lory) sought out to become an important part of it and used her skills and talents in music to teach herself the art of DJing. Since the last few years, Shiva has been DJing in most of the local underground clubs in Lebanon. Spinning mainly progressive (dark) genre, she has performed with several top names dj / producers such as Fred Numf, Marco V, Andy Moor, Chris Lake, Tiesto, Max Graham, Topo, Denchev and Kintar among others.

She also has a weekly afterhours radio show on the largest and most listened to radio station in Lebanon, RadioOne, called "Mistress Of Sound". Her latest project hosting "Preserve The Essence" on MCast as "Face of Sudam Recordings" has her teaming up with the talented South Americans Kintar & Rex and their fabulous label Sudam Recordings. In 2008, Shiva started looking into producing her own EDM tracks...