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Texted by Brent D. Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s 9 p.m. on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and Marjorie Gubelmann<\/a> is safely ensconced in her home waiting to be interviewed by the CHANINTR team in what was self-described as the first-ever interview for a print publication on Clubhouse<\/a>, the new voice-only social media platform taking over the world and in which, Marjorie drops in for a chat or a listen on a nightly basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have been paying even the slightest of attention to society\/ fashion news from the U.S. for the past 20 years, you will have noticed Marjorie\u2019s name appearing in bold-face in publications from W <\/em>to Vanity Fair<\/em>. Co-hosting this or chairing that. And more recently as MadMarj, professional DJ to brand events from Capri to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marjorie\u2019s transformation began in 2012 while having lunch with her friend Mickey Boardman, editorial director of Paper<\/em>, NYC\u2019s downtown magazine, Marjorie mentioned that she had been a DJ at the local radio station while attending New England College and used the on-air name, Mad Marj. Mickey immediately asked her to be a guest DJ at a party he was hosting downtown. She trepidatiously agreed to a 15-minute set concerned of being seen as a 40-something uptown \u201cfraud\u201d by the very hip downtown set who attended Mickey\u2019s events. Obviously, MadMarj was a hit as the 15-minute set carried on into the night as people connected to Marjorie and her favorite disco music of the \u201980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marjorie discovered her passion and knew that she wanted to make this her career. So she asked the head of a music label (We didn\u2019t ask, but we think we know who… the biggest!) for advice on how to become a working DJ. He sent her to Scratch Academy near Cooper Union College where she enrolled in classes and learned the discipline of mixing and mastering music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI love working with famous brands. They know what they are getting when they hire me.\u201d Marjorie continues, \u201cEveryone wants to have fun. So that\u2019s what I give them. 1980s Disco. I\u2019m so easy to work with. I show up early in a fancy dress and jewels, do a sound check and then I\u2019m happy to eat a sandwich in the corner until my set. I\u2019m not a diva. I\u2019m there to do a job… there\u2019s no ego.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MadMarj\u2019s first professional job was a launch party for Clinique\u2019s Dramatically Different Lotion which has spun into countless gigs working with the world\u2019s leading brands such as Tory Burch, Tiffany & Co., Google and has opened for the likes of Carbi B, Mary J. Blige, and Katy Perry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the end of the interview, after realizing that we hadn\u2019t been out dancing for years, we asked Marjorie why she thinks people stop dancing when they get to be a certain age. \u201cPeople don\u2019t stop dancing when they get older,\u201d Marjorie opined, \u201cit\u2019s just that no one is playing their music!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MadMarj streams \u201cour music\u201d on Spotify anytime day or night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

INSTAGRAM: @MARJORIEGUBELMANN<\/a>
CLUBHOUSE: @MADMARJ
SPOTIFY PLAYLISTS: MAD MARJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4817,"template":"","filed_under":[],"class_list":["post-4836","journal","type-journal","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPlaying Our Music | Chanintr Living Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Meet Marjorie Gubelmann, aka DJ MadMarj. A Manhattan socialite by day, Gubelmann transforms into a big-time DJ by night.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chanintr.com\/pages\/journal\/playing-our-music\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Playing Our Music | Chanintr Living Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Meet Marjorie Gubelmann, aka DJ MadMarj. 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