who is Rez and how did a waitress from Hard Rock Cafe become one of the biggest icons in EDM today Rez also known as Isabelle resed was born in K Ukraine to her Iranian father and Ukrainian mother although she moved to Niagara Falls Ontario in Canada in her early age re worked as a waitress at harck Cafe and often partied hard during her free time take the bus to downtown Toronto to go to Underground BR Raves out surf with friends at just 16 years old she began to start DJing at the age of 16 and vigorously began to study music production using YouTube tutorials she gained some experience playing for high school dances well as performing in clubs and bars in downtown Toronto and even some undergrounds after graduating high school and turning 18 she decided to spend all her waitress money to go to Day of the Dead in La which changed her life after seeing dead mouse life which became the moment she got into full-time music Rez has what I would consider an insane work ethic often spending most of her production time alone with no input often going 50 hours without sleep to work on music her first songs were basically techno at 126 BPM but later songs slow down to her iconic dark hypnic midtempo that she is known for today she uploaded her work diligently onto SoundCloud it was here that scrx noticed her and put her on the spotlight with her unique sound re was able to release her first big song Insurrection on Nest a subsidiary of alsa later dead mouse noticed her and decided to sign her on his label mous trp where she was able to release two EPS in 2015 the silence is deafening and something wrong here the latter reaching 19th on the Billboard's top charts and by 2017 she released her first studio album Mass manipulation which eventually won electronic album of the year and rocketed to the very top to become very coveted for live performances such as at EDC Coachella and tomorrow land her fans affectionately call her space mom and her fans are referenced as the cult resian Etc re has since made her own label hit no vision to help upcoming artists make midtempo music which is poorly represented in the industry and has become one of the most successful female lgbtq DJs in the last 10 years this before the age of 30 let me know if you listen to re