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DJ MJ: the DJ Dominica crowned before WCMF

Published October 20, 2026

DJ MJ is a bouyon DJ from Dominica who releases music as DJMJ, on his label DJMJ ANYWAY. In January 2026 he was named DJ of the Year at the Dominica Music Awards. His documented records, “Work Dat” and “You Can Do What You Want” with Gwada G, show him as a producer as much as a stage DJ, often paired with MV on the Keys. According to the published guides, he plays Night 1 of the World Creole Music Festival 2026, on Friday October 23, 2026, in Roseau, billed as a duo with MV on the Keys. This profile gathers the verified facts about DJ MJ, with no invented biography.

Who DJ MJ is: a bouyon DJ from Dominica, between stage and studio

DJ MJ is a bouyon DJ from Dominica. Two spellings name the same artist in the sources: DJ MJ, with the space, is the form used by bills and reports, by the festival and by the Dominica Music Awards; DJMJ, in one word, is the form of his music releases, of the platform sheets and of his label, DJMJ ANYWAY. On social posts, the scene also tags him under the display name Djmj Anyway, which takes the label name. This profile uses DJ MJ as the main name, because it is the one used by the institutions of his island, and flags DJMJ wherever his records are concerned, so a reader can find the right recordings without splitting one artist into two profiles.

The particular place of DJ MJ in the bouyon landscape is that he holds both trades at once. The DJ first: the one who plays the free ups, the village nights and the mixes that circulate the records of the season, as the live titles recorded below show. The studio artist next: his releases carry his name at the top of the bill, with guest singers, writing credits in his name and a label in his name. In Dominican bouyon, where the keyboard and the DJ sit at the centre of the machine, that double hat is a strong position: it connects the booth, production and the festival stage inside a single documented path.

The published credits even give the artist a name, and this profile reports it exactly as printed. On “You Can Do What You Want”, the Shazam sheet credits vocals to Paul DJMJ Jolly, harmony vocals to Gwada G and piano to Mv On De Keys, with writing shared between Paul DJMJ Jolly and Kurt Gwada G Douglas. It is the only full name form published in the verified sources of this dossier. This profile cites it as a published credit, without turning it into an identity document: no age, no home community, no school or family history, because no verified source gives them.

What the sources do give is enough to place DJ MJ at the centre of the current scene. A DJ of the Year title awarded by his island own awards, two documented platform releases with complete credits, a run of live titles circulating in the reference mixes of the genre, and a duo billing on the first night of Dominica biggest festival: the dossier is that of a DJ in full rise, documented fact by fact in the sections that follow, from the awards to the records, then from the studio to the Roseau stage.

DJ of the Year: the Dominica Music Awards crowning

The clearest fact in the DJ MJ dossier is an award. At the second Dominica Music Awards, held on Saturday January 3, 2026, at the Intercontinental Resort and Spa, DJ MJ was named DJ of the Year, according to the report published by Black Island Girl on January 5, 2026. The DJ category finalists had been announced on December 24, 2025: DJ MJ, DJ Sleem and Unstoppable Shax. Winning a DJ award, on an island where bouyon lives through nights, free ups and carnival trucks, is no side honour: it is recognition, from the assembled local industry, of the one who held the crowds of the season.

The context of the ceremony strengthens the reach of the award. The same night saw Signal Band win six awards, including Band of the Year, Album of the Year for “Electric Room” and Music Video of the Year for “Bye to the Old Me”. Pudaz was named Bouyon Artist of the Year there, Mr Ridge Producer of the Year, and an iconic award honoured producer Krishna “Dada” Lawrence. DJ MJ therefore receives his title inside the official photograph of the Dominican scene of 2026, alongside the bands, singers and producers who make the bouyon year. His award is the booth award, and it completes the picture: without DJs, no circulation of records, no free ups, no season.

This profile reports that award with its full attribution, ceremony, date, venue and source, because DJ titles often travel without context. It does not turn DJ of the Year into a world ranking, and it does not compare DJ MJ with DJs from other scenes without sources. The verifiable fact is precise: at the awards that count at home, in the second edition of a ceremony devoted to Dominican music, the name held up for DJ of the Year is DJ MJ. For an artist billed a few months later on the first night of WCMF, that award works as a domestic confirmation before the big stage.

The chronology is also worth noting, because it tells a year. Finalist announced on December 24, 2025, winner on January 3, 2026, a new release on January 24, 2026, with “You Can Do What You Want”, then the WCMF 2026 bill published in August for an October show: in under a year, DJ MJ moves from local finalist to a name printed on the programme of the Roseau festival. This profile follows that chronology without dressing it up. On its own, it is the best biography of the artist available to date.

Work Dat and You Can Do What You Want: the documented releases of DJ MJ, studio bouyon artist

The first documented DJMJ release is “Work Dat”, with Unstoppable Shax and Blasian Gyal, released on February 1, 2025, on the DJMJ ANYWAY label, according to Shazam. The sheet credits writing to the three performers, production to Fr3EzE and Mv Designs, and mastering to WizZarDHouSeRecorDs, at a tempo of 160 BPM. Around the record also sits a video titled “DJMJ LIVE, WORK THAT (BOUYON 2025)”, recorded at 717,000 views on the popular YouTube shelf at the time of our check. This profile cites both forms, Work Dat for the release and Work That for the video title, exactly as the sources print them, without deciding in place of the platforms whether the spelling should be unified.

The second release is “You Can Do What You Want”, with Gwada G, released on January 24, 2026, on DJMJ ANYWAY, again according to Shazam, at 160 BPM. Its credits are the fullest in the dossier: vocals by Paul DJMJ Jolly, harmony vocals by Gwada G, piano by Mv On De Keys, writing by Paul DJMJ Jolly and Kurt Gwada G Douglas, production by ThaWizzard. Every name tells a piece of the scene: Gwada G, an artist of the same generation also billed at WCMF 2026, has his page on this site, Gwada G; Tha Wizzard belongs to the circle of producers followed by Bouyon Shattaz; and Mv On De Keys, on piano, is the partner who gives the festival bill its duo form.

The tempo deserves a sentence, because it places the music without needing to describe records dishonestly. 160 BPM, recorded on both sheets, is the fast tempo of party bouyon, of records built to make a crowd jump and to hold their place in the mixes of the scene DJs. Both DJMJ releases are therefore dance records in the strict sense, published on his own label, with guests from his generation. It is the profile of a DJ who does not settle for playing the records of others: he publishes his own, with the credits, the voices and the keyboard that sign the Dominican sound of today.

Around those two official releases, the dossier records a run of live titles circulating in mixes, detailed in the next section. This profile keeps the distinction sharp: “Work Dat” and “You Can Do What You Want” are platform releases, documented by sheets with dates, labels and credits; the live titles are mix tracklist entries, cited as such. In total, five records carry the name of DJ MJ in the structured data of this page. For a DJ, whose work by nature leaves fewer written traces than that of singers, that documented base is already significant.

The duo with MV on the Keys and free up culture

The name that returns most often beside that of DJ MJ is MV on the Keys, sometimes written Mv On De Keys in the credits. The format reads clearly: a DJ and a keyboardist, the booth and the piano, joined as a duo. It is a deeply bouyon form. Since the creation of the genre by WCK in Roseau, the keyboard is the signature instrument of bouyon, the one that carries the looping patterns the crowd answers. A DJ and keys duo, in 2026, therefore works inside the historic material of the genre, with the tools of the current scene: live titles, free ups and mixes that circulate on video.

The traces of the duo can be read in the tracklists of reference mixes. The Blaqrose Supreme 2026 Bouyon Freestyle Mix, whose tracklist was published in August 2026, holds several duo titles: “We Outside Tonight Live”, “Nouveau Vitesse The Carnival Bounce 2026” and “Pain In Your Leg”, credited to DJ MJ and MV on the Keys. The same mix also holds “Who Can Party Like St Joe” by DJMJ solo, a title that also appears in Shazam similar song listings, and “Can I Grab It”, by DJ MJ with Pudaz and Faithii. Those entries are cited here as mix tracklist entries, with their source: they prove the circulation of the duo titles inside mix culture, without turning them into official releases they are not presented as.

The words free up return in that culture, and they should be heard the way Dominicans use them: a free session, often live, where a DJ and musicians play the party in real time, between keyboard improvisation, calls to the crowd and the records of the season chained together. The duo titles carry that mark in their very names, with their Live mentions and their carnival formulas. It is in those sessions that the reputation of a bouyon DJ is built: not only on platforms, but in the ability to hold a crowd in real time, village after village, night after night.

For the French speaking reader, this duo is one of the most concrete doors into the bouyon of today. Rather than picturing the DJ as a simple record passer, the DJ MJ and MV on the Keys bill shows a small stage group, cut for the party, where the keyboard plays live what studio productions record. When that duo steps onto the first night of WCMF, it is free up culture that enters Windsor Park, with its codes, its tempo and its crowd. The next section details that bill and what it means for Roseau.

WCMF 2026: Night 1, on Friday October 23, 2026, with MV on the Keys

According to the published World Creole Music Festival 2026 guides, notably writeups24, DJ MJ plays Night 1, on Friday October 23, 2026, billed as a duo with MV on the Keys. The festival runs at Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau from October 23 to 25, 2026, during Independence season, under the theme “Pulsating Rhythms”, and the Sweet TNT Magazine complete guide confirms the dates, the venue and the place of the opening night on October 23. Night 1 brings together, according to writeups24, Capleton, Skillibeng, Klass, Maurane Voyer, TK International, Midnight Groovers, Pudaz, Ridge, DJ MJ and MV on the Keys, Coltont and Ezra D’ Fun Machine.

Opening the festival is not a neutral slot. The first night sets the tone for the three days, in front of a crowd arriving for the whole weekend. Billing a DJ and keyboard duo there, rather than a band or a singer, says something about the place DJ culture has taken in the bouyon of 2026: it is no longer only the interlude between bands, it is part of the printed programme, with its own names. For DJ MJ, named DJ of the Year a few months earlier, the WCMF bill works as the logical sequel to the award: the Dominican booth recognised by its own awards steps onto the biggest stage on the island.

Night 1 also places DJ MJ inside a precise musical geography. Capleton and Skillibeng bring the reggae and dancehall of Jamaica, Klass the kompa of Haiti, Maurane Voyer the voice of Martinique, while TK International, Midnight Groovers, Pudaz and Ridge carry the colours of Dominica. In the middle of that bill, the DJ MJ and MV on the Keys duo represents the most local form of the show: the sound of the island free ups, carried to international festival level. It is exactly the kind of match between village stage and stadium stage that this site documents, from the path of bouyon to its current bills.

This profile attributes the make-up of the night to the published guides, writeups24 first, with the Sweet TNT Magazine guide for the dates and the frame of the festival. If the official programme changes, the page will be corrected and dated. In the meantime, the listening preparation is simple: start with “Work Dat” and “You Can Do What You Want”, the two documented releases, then look for the live titles of the duo in the mixes of the season and in our bouyon playlist, where the bouyon of the DJs sits beside that of the bands and the singers.

Why DJ MJ matters, and what this profile does not yet know

DJ MJ matters because he makes visible a trade that bouyon histories often leave in the shade. Singers have the hooks, bands have the albums, producers have the credits. The DJ holds the circulation of all of it: the free ups where records are born in front of a crowd, the mixes where they travel, the nights where they become habits. That a national award should name a DJ of the Year, and that a festival like WCMF should print a DJ and keys duo on its first night, shows that the Dominican scene now recognises that role at the same level as the others. The DJ MJ profile documents that moment, with its award, its releases and its bill.

DJ MJ also matters through his career model, readable in the verified facts alone. A label in his name, DJMJ ANYWAY. Releases where he writes, sings and invites, from Unstoppable Shax and Blasian Gyal to Gwada G. A keyboard partner, MV on the Keys, present from the piano credit of his releases to the festival bill. And a recognition that comes from home before it comes from elsewhere: finalist then winner at the Dominica Music Awards, then billed in Roseau. For the young DJs of Dominica, that path says the booth can lead to the big stage without passing through exile, provided you publish, credit and hold crowds season after season.

The limits of the dossier are written here rather than hidden. Beyond the credited name Paul DJMJ Jolly on a platform sheet, no verified biography of DJ MJ was confirmed during the research for this profile: no home community, no age, no radio or residency history published in a reliable source, and no official account whose address was verified, so no social link appears in the data of this page. The live titles are known through mix tracklists, not through release sheets. If those elements are confirmed, this profile will be completed and dated, like every page on this site.

In the meantime, listening starts with the two releases: “Work Dat”, for the 2025 record and its free up energy turned into a hit video, then “You Can Do What You Want”, to hear the full duo, the voice of DJ MJ, the harmonies of Gwada G and the piano of MV on the Keys. Continue with the bouyon playlist and the page of DJ Taffy, the other DJ of this 2026 programme, then keep the date: on Friday October 23, 2026, at Windsor Park in Roseau, the first night of WCMF opens with, among its printed names, that of the DJ Dominica has just crowned.

Frequently asked questions

Who is DJ MJ?

DJ MJ is a bouyon DJ from Dominica who releases music as DJMJ, on his label DJMJ ANYWAY. He was named DJ of the Year at the Dominica Music Awards in January 2026 and often plays as a duo with keyboardist MV on the Keys.

Is DJ MJ playing WCMF 2026?

Yes, according to the published World Creole Music Festival 2026 guides, notably writeups24, DJ MJ plays Night 1, on Friday October 23, 2026, in Roseau, billed as the duo DJ MJ and MV on the Keys, alongside Capleton, Skillibeng, Klass, TK International, Pudaz and Ridge.

Who is MV on the Keys, the partner of DJ MJ?

MV on the Keys, also written Mv On De Keys, is the keyboardist paired with DJ MJ: he is credited on piano on “You Can Do What You Want” and forms with him the duo billed on WCMF 2026 Night 1. Their live titles, such as “We Outside Tonight Live”, circulate in the bouyon mixes of the season.

What is the credited name of DJ MJ on his releases?

On the published sheet of “You Can Do What You Want”, the credits name Paul DJMJ Jolly on vocals and writing, with Kurt Gwada G Douglas on writing and harmony vocals, Mv On De Keys on piano and ThaWizzard on production. It is the only full name form published in the verified sources of this profile.

Which records should I hear to discover DJ MJ?

Start with his two documented releases: “Work Dat”, with Unstoppable Shax and Blasian Gyal, released on February 1, 2025, and “You Can Do What You Want”, with Gwada G, released on January 24, 2026, both on the DJMJ ANYWAY label at 160 BPM. Then look for his live titles with MV on the Keys, such as “Who Can Party Like St Joe”, in the bouyon mixes.

Are DJ MJ and DJMJ the same person?

Yes. DJ MJ, with the space, is the form used by the festival bills and by the Dominica Music Awards, while DJMJ, in one word, is the form of his music releases and of his label DJMJ ANYWAY. Both spellings name the same bouyon DJ from Dominica.

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