Rony Seikaly credits his teen years in Greece for his lifelong love of house music. “Greece is where I acquired a taste for house music as the evolution of disco,” he says. Though he’d been DJing since he was 14, he didn’t consider it a career back then. After a celebrated college career playing basketball at Syracuse University, he was drafted by the NBA at 23, first playing for the Miami Heat and then for the Golden State Warriors, Orlando Magic, New Jersey Nets, and FC Barcelona, before retiring to focus on music. “It’s been a very interesting transition,” he says, of leaving professional basketball for music, noting their
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