joyce mercedes

   Joyce Mercedes was born in Nijmegen on 3 March under the starsign Pisces. Her name stands for joy and protection. Her creativeness, which is so characteristic for a Pisces, finds it's expression in her greatest passion: music!!!
    Since she was young she has devoted herself with all of her heart to music. She has always been occupied with singing, dancing and acting and in those days she would spend her last penny on buying records.
   Joyce has always been a good student. After passing her VWO-exams she decided to study economics with specializing in the commercial section. Her first year she studied in Nijmegen, her second year in Amsterdam. However, in Amsterdam she soon realized that this study was not the right choice for her. She wanted to further herself through her dancing, music and singing: that's her passion. So in 1992 she decided to start working as an artist.
   Joyce has worked for agency's like Extension and Pantera, which organized her dance performances. She has danced in the biggest clubs of Europe and USA (IT-Amsterdam, Le Bain-Paris, Liquid-Miami, Escape(chemistry/Hour Power)-Amsterdam, Karma-Romania, Live-New York, etc.etc.). She has been in a lot of dance fashion shows and quite regularly she was dancing in videoclips which have entered the Top Ten.
   In 1996 she started together with Irene (fashion designer DNA) a spectacular dance show tour called "Stryker & Holmes", which started in Ibiza, where they set up shows in clubs like Pasha, El Devino, Monday's, Manumission and Space. After Ibiza the toured through the north of Italy. After Italy the performed in New York, Miami, Paris and of course back in Amsterdam.
   By then Joyce was involved for quite some time in various singing projects and eventually made her choice for "Centerfold". This ended her dancing career and started her singing career.
   With Centerfold she had gigs in the Netherlands, Europe and the Middle-East (concert in Dubai). One of those gigs was during half time of Ajax/PSV on the middle stip of the "Arena" Amsterdam. Also Playboy celebrated their 15-year anniversary with a concert of Centerfold. they were hot!!
   After a disagreement between Centerfold and their management Joyce decided to call it a day.
   Joyce also has a model career and worked in the passed with photographers like Thom Hoffman, Paul Huf, Jasper Zwartjes, Govert de Roos, Mike v.d. Toorn, Carli Hermes and Erwin Olaf. She did among other things campaigns for Campari, Heineken, Gap-Star and Playboy.
   She is a resident DJ at the supperclub(Amsterdam), a resident of the 'Space World Tour'. and plays in many other clubs in and outside Europe ''Cruises to pleasure-Belgium'', L Elysee Montmartre-Paris, +Soda -Athens, M1-Germany, Pacha-Pineda/Spain, Club Exposure-The Hague, Scoop-Eilat, Het Paard-The Hague, Motion-Amsterdam, SOL-Amsterdam, Stalker-Haarlem, ZebraLounge-Amsterdam, Dubai event, Miami-The world party WMC, Sensation-ID&T/White, MyClub-Thessaloniki, NRG-Chania, Privilege-Chania/Krete, Iraklion-Prime, Iraklion-Akthi etc etc etc..
   Due to her "all-roundness" she feeds and understands the crowd and enchants them with her sound. Her Trousy style (trippy trancy tribal house) always fills the dancefloor!!!
In April 2003 she succesfully completed the AED course at the SAE, and got herself an 'Audio engineering diploma'. At the moment she is next to DJ-ing, modelling and performing also busy with a singing project, and as a music producer..

you must visit
- Joyce Mercedes website
- Joyce Mercedes mix