Three internationally renowned DJ collectives
DJ Hervé founded or co-founded PapasDJs, La Vieja Guardia DJs and Latin Music Entertainment.
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Salsa · Latin music · Since 1999
Music with history.
Selected for the dance floor.
DJ Hervé is a Swiss Salsa DJ, curator and event organiser whose career connects Paris, the United States, Europe, Japan and Brazil.
1999 Career begins4 Paris congress editions2 Congresses co-founded3 DJ collectives founded / co-founded3 Continents played
A Salsa life in chapters
From a family record collection to international dance floors.
Hervé grew up close to Latin jazz and Afro-Caribbean music through his record-producer father. After moving to Paris, he helped create the Paris World Salsa Congress, co-founded PapasDJs and developed an international practice grounded in musical knowledge and the dancer’s experience.
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Flyers, broadcasts and photographs.
Signature milestones
A career built across scenes.
Co-founder of the Paris World Salsa Congress
Organiser, master of ceremonies and DJ across four editions.
Europe, the United States and Japan
Congress, club and social-dance appearances across three continents.
Co-founder and DJ of the Rio Salsa Congress
A Brazilian congress chapter shaped by years of international experience.
Big Brother Brasil 9
A national broadcast and a possible audience-scale world distinction.
Read the documented story →“The first responsibility is to make people dance. The deeper work is to transmit the culture carried by the music.”
DJ Hervé’s selection philosophy, adapted from a 2009 interview
Projects & collectives
Built for people who gather around music.
Paris World Salsa Congress
Paris, France
Co-founder · Organiser · Master of ceremonies · DJPapasDJs
Paris, France
Co-founder · Core DJ · Ace of HeartsRio Salsa Congress
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Co-founder · DJLa Vieja Guardia DJs
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Creator · DJ · ProducerA night seen across Brazil
Possibly Salsa’s largest DJ broadcast audience.
The BBB9 episode registered 27 Ibope points in Greater São Paulo—approximately 1.62 million households in that measured market alone. The scale supports a compelling historical possibility, presented here as a hypothesis rather than a certified record.
27 Ibope points1.62m measured households25 tracks archived
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