VJ JD – BOISE, IL

Joshua Duerksen, also known as Video DJ JD, grew up in California in the 90’s.  JD’s musical influences range from Classic Rock and Country to Hip Hop and 90’s Dance.  He has been quoted as stating, “Good music knows no genre!”  

After completing his high school education, JD joined the United States Navy serving his country for ten years.  While stationed in Norfolk, Virginia he met several DJs who mentored and taught him the foundations of the different aspects of DJing.  While not on deployment in the Navy he practiced his mixing and performance skills as a Club DJ, Mobile DJ, and Corporate DJ.

After choosing to not re-enlist in the Navy, he moved to Idaho and started providing his DJ services to weddings, birthday parties, and school dances.  He also continues to DJ and emcee several of the prominent night clubs in Boise Idaho area.

In 2009 he started working for XMiX DJ Music Pool as a video editor. His job is to take the remixes and edits produced by their talented producers, then re-edit the music videos to the remix; making it easier for Video DJ’s to mix music videos.  While in this role he also honed his audio editing skills learning to build audio edits and remixes. JD’s audio edits have been used in nationality syndicated country mix shows by famous DJs such as DJ Silver and DJ Cutt. His video edits built on his country “remixes” are used by 1000’s of country night club DJ’s arcoss the country and around the world where country music is played.

JD’s DJ and producer inspirations are DJ AM, Jason Nevins, DJ Serg, DJ Skillz, DJ Sinister, DJ Silver, Timberland, Joey Moi, Scott Hendricks, Peter Young, to name a few.

VDJ JD’s mixing skills have been showcased on 103.5 Kiss FM in Boise, ID and Q95 in Toledo, OH.