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Boston Chery: the Brooklyn DJ who signed a bouyon remix

Published October 20, 2026

Boston Chery is a DJ and producer based in Brooklyn, originally from Boston, Massachusetts, of Haitian heritage, and one of the figures of Afro-Caribbean club music in New York. She is not a bouyon artist, and this profile says so at the door. Her place on this site rests on one precise fact, written in black and white by herself: at the head of her Bandcamp catalog stands “Spend It”, her remix of Summer Walker, released on December 19, 2025 under the exact title “Spend It, Summer Walker (Boston Chery Bouyon Remix)”. A Brooklyn DJ, formed by Haitian kompa, dancehall and R&B, who chooses the word bouyon to sign a remix of American R&B: that is the contact point, documented by her official page. This profile tells her full path, from Crown Heights to New York residencies, from Boiler Room to her label The 8th Path, then draws exactly where her link with the bouyon of Dominica stops.

Who Boston Chery is: Boston in the name, Brooklyn in the life

Boston Chery is a DJ and producer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her own Bandcamp biography, the most direct source in the file, presents her as a Brooklyn based DJ and producer originally from Boston, MA, with nearly eight years of experience in the tri-state club and art scene at the time the text was written. Serato, in its artist profile, calls her Boston-born and Brooklyn-based. In the interview she gave to Earth in Color, she phrases the same geography in her own words: born in Massachusetts, but from New York, having grown up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The stage name carries the first city, the career plays out in the second.

The other root is Haitian. Rooftop Films presents her as a Boston-bred, Haitian-American, Brooklyn-based DJ and producer, and Serato stresses that heritage: Haitian kompa, with its melodic basslines and its tanbou drum, is among the sounds that formed her, alongside the cars and trains of New York to which the child she was answered in beatbox. In the Serato Paradise 2026 portrait, she is described as a child of the Haitian diaspora, and she claims there a music meant to give Haitians their sound back and bring people together. Her stage pronunciation is specified by Rooftop Films: Chery is pronounced Cherié.

Musically, the portraits converge on a broad, dance-ready territory. Rooftop Films speaks of deep and infectious dance grooves and a love for 90s reggae and dancehall, Afrobeat, world music, R&B and hip hop. Serato sums her style up in three words: percussive, colorful, Caribbean, and speaks of Afro-Caribbean club music made for the dancefloor. Her cited influences mix American R&B producers, Darkchild, Timbaland and Missy Elliott, the electronic scene, Kaytranada, High Klassified, TRAKGIRL, Nova Wave and Melo-X, and Haitian kompa music. It is in that territory, and not in that of Dominican bouyon, that most of her work sits: bouyon appears in it at only one point, treated below with the precision it deserves.

The apprenticeship: her mother beatbox, Soundtrack Pro, house parties

The Earth in Color interview gives the fullest formation story, in her own voice. The music journey starts at seven years old: she writes music and learns to beatbox from her mom. The idea of becoming a DJ comes from elsewhere, from a sentence heard at an elementary school friend house, whose mother told her from the other room that she should get into DJing. She describes that moment as a light bulb clicking. In high school, she starts producing on Soundtrack Pro, a discontinued Apple app meant for videographers, stocked with royalty free loops and sound effects: the day she figures out she can manipulate those loops to create her own music, Serato recounts, the rest was history.

DJing proper starts in college, with no setup: she downloads Virtual DJ and mixes off her computer, before getting a controller a year later. The first gigs are birthday parties, including a sweet sixteen booked by her own sister, and she keeps from that period an image that says everything about the house party school: DJing off the stove, the speakers on the table. Serato confirms the thread of this formation: no formal musical education, but a practice of assembly, and she calls herself a sample producer, someone who takes parts of a song and builds a new song from them.

The professional turn plays out in New York in the early 2010s. She recounts the Soho years, an internship at Global Grind, Russell Simmons company, where within a week or two she was the youngest paid person doing video work, then sets for Mass Appeal and meeting one of her first mentors, DJ Natasha Diggs, who gave her a residency at the DL Rooftop and Lounge. A Swiss videographer met at a backyard party then flew her out to Art Basel: the first plane flight of her life, and the biggest crowd of her young career, over 1,000 people under the outdoor tent. The Serato Paradise 2026 portrait returns to the same debt toward Natasha Diggs: because a woman DJ opened a door for her, she does the same for others, a principle that would become her label.

The community DJ: Boiler Room, Sway, AFROPUNK and the residencies

Boston Chery DJ career reads, in the portraits, as a run of stages that matter for New York club culture and beyond. Rooftop Films, which booked her in June 2022 for an outdoor screening of the film Citizen Ashe in New York, lines up the facts: performances on Boiler Room and on the XM radio show Sway In The Morning, membership in Splice inaugural Creator Class, appearances at AFROPUNK, the Brooklyn Museum and Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and stages shared with Jill Scott, Kaytranada, GoldLink and MeLo-X. At that date, she held residencies at Dumbo House in Brooklyn and at Peachy bar in Chinatown.

The Splice Creator Class deserves a line of its own, because it places her level of recognition on the production side as early as 2019. Splice presented its inaugural class that year, and Boston Chery profile there counted ten years of DJ experience and four years of production experience, with afrobeat, dancehall and hip hop influences brought to all of her projects. It is the same profile Serato would spotlight in 2023 in its Studio 2.0 series, describing her working setup of the moment, Serato Studio with an AKAI MPK keyboard, and the Stems function as a game changer for her sampling process.

The meaning of this path, she phrases herself in the Earth in Color interview, speaking of the queer audiences she started DJing for a few years earlier. She speaks there of a chosen family, of queer Haitians coming up to thank her after sets, and of a representation that matters: early in her career, she did not see lesbian or masculine-presenting women DJs, or non-binary DJs, at that level of visibility. Her 2023 Serato portrait sums the mission up in one sentence: creating community through music, with dynamic sets completed by her own productions and remixes, exactly the formula her Bandcamp biography also puts forward.

The 8th Path: the label as an open door

In 2020, according to the portrait published by Brooklyn Vegan, Boston Chery founded The 8th Path Records, to elevate BIPOC artists in the DJ and remix community with the connections she had built over the years. Serato, in 2023, presents the same structure as a label highlighting BIPOC producers and DJs around the world. The Serato Paradise 2026 portrait gives the full name, The Eighth Path, and its personal etymology: born on the 8th, a life path number eight, and the Buddhist Eightfold Path to enlightenment, translated into music as an enlightenment reached through the dancefloor and through each other.

The activity of the label, as Serato describes it in 2026, is that of a booking platform as much as a record label: The Eighth Path has booked DJs from Australia to Japan and from Guadeloupe to Austria, with no aesthetic quota, and talent, community and the idea that everyone deserves a platform as its only criteria. Guadeloupe therefore appears, in passing, in the real geography of her booking network, which does not make her an actor of bouyon gwada, but places one of her concrete contact points with the French speaking Caribbean.

This label is the institutional translation of her personal story. The 2026 portrait recounts a young DJ, broke and newly unemployed, who told Natasha Diggs she was glad to finally meet a woman DJ, and received a text days later offering a show: she proved herself, landed a residency, and everything changed. Her conclusion, quoted by Serato, is a commitment: to do for new DJs what Natasha Diggs did for her, book them, give them residencies and connect them to any person she can. The 8th Path is that promise turned into a structure.

The Bandcamp catalog: from 2019 edits to the Channel 8 EP

The catalog Boston Chery displays on her official Bandcamp page counts sixteen entries, and it reads like the logbook of a DJ producer. The oldest pages opened during this research date from December 12, 2019: “G.O.A.T”, built on Princess Nokia with Jean Sean and Eli Cure, and “Kotch”, her edit of the Rdx record, two gestures typical of club edit work. In 2020 came “Signs” and “Skeletun” on June 5, then the “WAP” remix, featuring Megan Thee Stallion, on August 20, and the “Body” remix of Megan Thee Stallion on December 4. The method is that of the sample producer she says she is: take the records dominating the dancefloors of the moment and rework them in her Caribbean, percussive grammar.

The editorial peak of the catalog is “Channel 8 (Part I)”, released on March 3, 2023 on the Styles Upon Styles label, in digital and physical forms. The EP counts three tracks, all produced by Boston Chery: “Down For Me” featuring Midlo, 3 minutes 48, “24 Hours” featuring Bemata, 3 minutes 34, and “Mamita” featuring Indigo General, 3 minutes 01. The EP page states that the Channel 8 project spans two EPs and a multitude of talent from her community, and that this first installment showcases voices from Los Angeles, New York and Harlem. The credits detail real sung production work: vocal production, mixing and mastering entrusted to named collaborators, far from the quick edit.

After the EP, the catalog picks the club remix thread back up: “Truth or Dare” by Tyla, released on February 11, 2025 with a Boston Chery Flare note on its page, then, at the head of the page, “Spend It” by Summer Walker, dated December 19, 2025. Between the two, the page also lines up the Summers With You mix volumes, edit collaborations with Simen Sez, one of the producers of her Splice class, on “Cash Shit” by Megan Thee Stallion with DaBaby and “Be Faithful” by Fatman Scoop, a “Come Thru” by Summer Walker with Leemz, and a remix of Janet Jackson “Pleasure Principle”. This catalog is that of a New York Caribbean diaspora DJ: Afrobeat, dancehall, R&B and hip hop, worked for the party. Now it is time to say, exactly, where bouyon plugs into it.

The bouyon point: “Spend It”, and the limits of the link

Boston Chery link with bouyon fits in one record, and that record proclaims it itself. “Spend It, Summer Walker (Boston Chery Bouyon Remix)”, released on her Bandcamp on December 19, 2025, takes a record by Summer Walker, an American R&B singer, and explicitly renames it as a bouyon remix. The track page develops no further: a short note presents it as perfect vibes to add to a DJ set. But the gesture reads without commentary: in December 2025, a Brooklyn producer with a worldwide network chooses the word bouyon, and not soca, dancehall or kompa, to qualify the rhythmic treatment of an R&B remix. Bouyon, born in Dominica, has become a grammar available to diaspora DJs, on the same footing as the other Caribbean rhythms of her palette.

This contact point must not be inflated. No other entry in her Bandcamp catalog carries the bouyon mention, her reference portraits speak of Afro-Caribbean club music, kompa, rabòday, dancehall and electronic R&B, and nothing in the file links her directly to Dominica, its artists or its stages. The genre reminder applies here as elsewhere on this site: bouyon soca, one of the sung forms that came out of bouyon, was started by Dada in 2003 in Dominica, per the first hand testimony of Sean “Smokiller” Francis, Dominican-born. When a Brooklyn DJ applies the name bouyon to a Summer Walker remix, she cites a Dominican rhythm that has gone worldwide, she does not thereby become an artist of the Dominican scene, and this site documents her as a catalog neighbour, like the other carriers of the sound.

The limits of the file are the following. The Bandcamp biography, written on an unspecified date, speaks of nearly eight years of experience, a figure other portraits quietly contradict, Splice already counting ten years of DJing in 2019: this profile keeps the dated facts and leaves approximate durations to the texts that carry them. The Bandcamp pages opened give dates and credits, but no production detail on the bouyon remix itself: no tempo, no writing credits, no documented public reaction to date in this research. For accurate listening, start with “Spend It” for the bouyon point, continue with the “Channel 8 (Part I)” EP for the producer of sung records, then with “Truth or Dare”, “Body” and “WAP” for the edit grammarian. And for the Dominican side of the story, find our bouyon remix, bouyon diaspora and bouyon playlist pages.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Boston Chery?

Boston Chery is a DJ and producer based in Brooklyn, New York, originally from Boston, Massachusetts, and of Haitian heritage. Her Bandcamp biography presents her as a DJ of the tri-state club and art scene, with a clear mission: pumping energy into any room and moving the crowd with dynamic sets and her own productions and remixes. Serato describes her as a label founder creating community through dancefloor ready Afro-Caribbean club music.

Why is Boston Chery on a bouyon site?

For one precise record, titled by herself: “Spend It, Summer Walker (Boston Chery Bouyon Remix)”, released on her official Bandcamp on December 19, 2025, at the head of her catalog. It is to date the only entry in her catalog carrying the bouyon mention. The rest of her work belongs to Afro-Caribbean club music, kompa, dancehall, R&B and hip hop, and this profile documents her as a catalog neighbour, not as an artist of the Dominican scene.

What is The 8th Path?

The label and platform founded by Boston Chery, presented by Brooklyn Vegan as created in 2020 to elevate BIPOC artists in the DJ and remix community, and by Serato as a label highlighting BIPOC producers and DJs around the world. Serato Paradise 2026 gives the full name, The Eighth Path, inspired by her birth on the 8th, her life path number eight and the Buddhist Eightfold Path, and describes DJ bookings from Australia to Japan and from Guadeloupe to Austria.

What is Boston Chery main original record?

“Channel 8 (Part I)”, a three track EP released on March 3, 2023 on Styles Upon Styles, in digital and physical forms: “Down For Me” featuring Midlo, “24 Hours” featuring Bemata and “Mamita” featuring Indigo General, all produced by Boston Chery. The EP page states that the Channel 8 project spans two EPs and gathers talent from her community, from Los Angeles to Harlem.

Where has Boston Chery played?

According to Rooftop Films, which booked her in New York in June 2022, she has performed on Boiler Room and on the Sway In The Morning radio show, at AFROPUNK, the Brooklyn Museum and Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and she has shared stages with Jill Scott, Kaytranada, GoldLink and MeLo-X. She then held residencies at Dumbo House in Brooklyn and at Peachy bar in Chinatown. She also recounts a set at Art Basel, in front of over 1,000 people, on her first ever plane flight.

Where can I hear Boston Chery?

On her official Bandcamp page, linked in the data of this page: “Spend It” for her bouyon remix of Summer Walker, the “Channel 8 (Part I)” EP for her sung productions, “Truth or Dare” by Tyla, “Body” and “WAP” by Megan Thee Stallion for her club remixes, and “Signs”, “Skeletun”, “G.O.A.T” and “Kotch” for her oldest edits. Our bouyon playlist follows the Dominican side of the sound she cites in “Spend It”.

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