ALMENDRA Medina Santillanes

ALMENDRA Medina Santillanes was born on May 20th, 1988 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, México. The youngest of three sisters in a musician family, she was fascinated and interested in musical arts from a very early age taking several family musical lessons during her childhood.

Influenced by her sisters and friends, Almendra grew up with a special love of videogames and anime, which during her early days, were gaining importance in all México.

Almendra took her first piano lessons at age 6, but it wasn't until age 12, when she was interested by the opera and she joined the Sinaloa Opera Choir, performing in plenty of cultural events in all the state of Sinaloa.

She also won 1st places in singing and declamation scholar contests, gaining a lot of fame among young and old people.

On December 2002, during a Christmas Festival, Almendra besides her sister Rasma impressed the crowd by performing a japanese song titled 3 Primary Colors, a theme from the well-known anime Digimon Tamers.

At age 17, Almendra started to perform at different anime conventions in Culiacán, many times besides her sisters, singing covers of famous anime songs and gaining a great acceptation among the otaku/freaky crowd.

At age 20, she began to receive several invitations to be part of the panel of judges in several talent contests in anime conventions and other otaku events in Culiacán.

In the year 2008, Almendra discovered her fascination for electronic music and so, along with Rasma, she started to get knowledge about electronic music subgenres, DJ and music production.

On november of that same year, Almendra and Rasma formed the electro-pop duo Starstorm, and so, they started releasing several good singles like Midnight to Daylight, Pretty Lover, None's Better Than You and Glamourous Night (which was greatly accepted among young girls). Starstorm performed at several local events and private parties making the entire city dance.

At the beginning of 2010, Almendra and Rasma gave life to what today we know as Genesis DJ duo, taking in consideration their love of anime and videogames and all the music around them, they started remixing diverse famous themes that soon had many plays and good comments on the Internet. Genesis DJ duo also remixed a famous theme by Michael Jackson, titled You Rock My World, getting to become quite a Hit on the web.

GENESIS currently continues to cause a great sensation in México and many other countries all around the world, as with their cool live shows as with their latest otaku/freaky remixes.