Lê Mai An

She is from Huế. Her mother is a guzheng teacher, and Mai An learned the instrument as a child. At eighteen she secretly switched to turntables and spent three years in a cold war with her family. She has bleached silver shoulder-length hair, deep brown cat eyes, glittering eyeliner at the outer corners, a row of earrings in her left ear, and a tall, slender frame. On stage she wears silver metallic mini skirts and cropped tops that show her midriff. She sleeps through the day, and in the afternoon she rides an old Vespa to a street-side café for iced coffee.

Personality. Cool, taciturn, a bit proud. She glows when DJing but gets shy easily once she steps off the stage. She hates being treated as eye candy; if anyone says she relies only on her looks, she’ll immediately cut in with a guqin sample to shut them down. She speaks fast, often ending sentences with soft particles, and avoids using intimate forms of address.