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Born in Melbourne, with a dream to impact the world, the Disco Faith Choir was
the blessing of Sunshine – one of the city’s renowned DJ and producers, who was raised on
the dancefloor and found community on the dancefloor. With a desire to unite anthemic
club tracks with uplifting gospel and soul vocals, Sunshine took to the streets
endeavouring to bring her studio output to life with the grandiose affections of a choir.

Performing for the first time in 2016, Sunshine and Disco Faith Choir was an instant hit.
Having fused her infectious club-ready house and techno vision with a 12 piece
choir, Sunshine was afire, merging a dynamic club set she was known for, with live and
infectious gospel voices- bringing an energy to the room unlike anything else. It wasn’t long
before Sunshine and Disco Faith Choir were gracing dance floors all over the city.

A true ode to dancefloor salvation, Sunshine and Disco Faith Choir serve to share the
gospel of Disco Faith with those whose enthusiasm lives in the hands of the music.

Plucked from a small town in Australia and raised in the crumbling majesty of Rome, Tanzer is the reigning queen of culture-clash dancefloor decadence, performing exuberant, high-glamour DJ sets at the world’s most exclusive parties.

With a perfectly lacquered finger in the world of music, art, fashion and beauty, Tanzer’s adventures often combine all four; flawlessly weaving disco, house, Euro soundtracks and ‘space opera’ vocals into DJ sets, music releases and art installations all around the world.

She’s brought her magic to iconic venues like David Lynch’s Silencio Paris and the Sydney Opera House — handpicked by brands like Chanel, Comme des Garçons, Coach, and Spotify, and DJed parties for Paris Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week, World Pride, Palm Springs Pride, Vivid Sydney and Laneway Festival.

Beyond the decks, Tanzer is a multi-hyphenate creative, composing original music for Australian Fashion Week and Melbourne Fashion Week, releasing sell-out fashion collaborations, and exhibiting nationally with her immersive music video installation ‘Disco Instamatic’.

Born in Havana, Cuba, Juan Carlos Osma began dancing at age five in Cuban traditional styles including salsa, mambo, cha-cha, and rumba. He trained at the Elementary School of Ballet Alejo Carpentier and the National School of Ballet Fernando Alonso Academy, graduating in 2010 as a professional dancer and qualified teacher. He toured internationally with Ballet Revolución for two years, performing in France, Italy, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK, including an exclusive performance for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He went on to dance as Principal with Joburg Ballet and Liaoning Ballet, where he premiered Swan Lake (Vladimir Malakhov) and The Butterfly Legend (Rui López), and presented his choreography Find Me on the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in Russia.

Since joining West Australian Ballet in 2019, Osma has performed in ALICE in wonderland as The Mad Hatter, Sandy & Aurélien Scannella’s Giselle as Albrecht, The Nutcracker as Uncle Drosselmeyer, Greg Horsman’s La Bayadère as Solor, Swan Lake as The Prince, Don Quixote as Basilio & Espada, and Javier Torres’ The Sleeping Beauty as Carabosse & Prince Desiré, alongside works by Nils Christe, David Dawson, and George Balanchine.

His world premieres include Nothing Twice, Goldberg Variations, Slow Haunt, Echoes of Van Gogh, and Butterfly Effect, and he was awarded the 2022 Performing Arts WA Award – Outstanding Male Performer – for his role in The Sleeping Beauty and 2024 Performing Arts WA Award – Outstanding Duet/Ensemble – for Echoes of Van Gogh.