DJ Camilo

DJ Camilo is one of New York City's most recognized Latin and open format DJs, with a career spanning more than two decades that has built his reputation at the intersection of nightclub DJing, radio, and event production across the New York and Miami markets and increasingly across Las Vegas. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood — the geographic heart of New York's Dominican community and one of the most musically rich urban environments in the United States — Camilo developed his musical instincts in an environment saturated with the merengue, bachata, and salsa traditions of Dominican music alongside the hip-hop and R&B that defined New York's broader popular culture. His radio presence has been central to his reputation and audience development. As a personality on La Mega 97.9 FM — one of New York City's most-listened-to Spanish-language radio stations, with an audience that reaches across the metropolitan area's large Dominican and broadly Latin communities — Camilo built a public profile that extended beyond the club circuit and into the daily routines of New York listeners. Radio DJs who become trusted voices in large urban communities develop a different kind of audience loyalty than club DJs who are encountered only on weekend nights; the daily touchpoint of a morning radio show creates familiarity that translates directly into attendance and energy when those same listeners encounter the DJ in a live performance context at a major nightclub. His club bookings across New York City's nightlife landscape have built a different dimension of his reputation. New York's Latin nightclub circuit demands a specific kind of musical intelligence from its DJs: the ability to move fluidly between Latin genres — reggaeton, merengue, bachata, salsa, cumbia, dembow — and American urban music including hip-hop, R&B, and Top 40 without creating jarring transitions or losing the crowd during the genre shifts. This genre fluency is what open format DJing requires at its most demanding, a craft skill that takes years to develop and that separates DJs who can hold a diverse crowd from those who can only hold a single-genre audience. DJ Camilo's reputation in New York nightlife rests substantially on this demonstrated fluency across a career that has exposed him to every variation of Latin nightlife crowd and musical expectation. His bookings in Miami — a city whose nightlife ecosystem combines Latin music traditions from multiple South American and Caribbean national communities with the mainstream American club format — extend his geographic reach and expose him to a more diverse crowd composition than the New York Latin market alone provides. Miami nightlife has historically been a crossroads environment where Latin music traditions and American mainstream pop overlap most commercially, making it an important proving ground for DJs who work across genre lines and need to demonstrate versatility at scale. Las Vegas represents a significant expansion of his reach into a market where Latin nightlife programming has grown as Las Vegas Strip hotels compete for the growing Latin tourism demographic. His bookings at LIV at Fontainebleau Las Vegas — the Strip's newest mega-venue nightclub, carrying the LIV brand from South Beach — LIV Beach (Fontainebleau's outdoor dayclub component), and Hakkasan Nightclub at MGM Grand give him three distinct Strip contexts for his open format programming. LIV at Fontainebleau Las Vegas is among the city's largest new-generation nightclub venues, with a stadium-style main room and dozens of VIP tables that create a commercial environment suited to his crossover appeal across Latin and open format audiences. Hakkasan at MGM Grand — 80,000 square feet across five levels with a 3,800-person capacity — adds the world's largest dedicated nightclub space to his Las Vegas venue portfolio, providing a scale context where his ability to read and serve a diverse crowd is particularly valuable. Open format DJing in the Las Vegas context requires a different set of accommodations than New York Latin club DJing. Las Vegas Strip nightclub crowds are drawn from across the United States and internationally, with the demographic mix varying significantly by hotel property, day of week, and whether conventions or holiday weekends are driving Las Vegas visitation at any given time. A DJ who can read and respond to this constantly varying crowd composition — shifting from hip-hop to Latin to Top 40 to throwbacks as the room's energy and demographics shift — delivers more commercial value to a venue than a specialist who commands a single genre. This is precisely the skill that DJ Camilo has developed across decades of radio and club work in New York and Miami, and that his Las Vegas bookings at LIV and Hakkasan allow him to deploy at Strip-scale venues before some of the largest nightclub audiences in the world. Guest list registration through NoCoverVegas for DJ Camilo's appearances at LIV at Fontainebleau, LIV Beach, and Hakkasan provides free entry for qualifying guests. Understanding the differences between his three Las Vegas venues helps in choosing which DJ Camilo appearance to attend. LIV at Fontainebleau occupies the north end of the Las Vegas Strip inside the $3.7 billion Fontainebleau resort, which opened in December 2023 as the first major new resort construction on the Strip in over a decade. Its main room features a stadium-style configuration with an elevated DJ booth, making the DJ's position and the crowd's sightlines to the stage more concert-like than the conventional club layout at most competitors. LIV Beach — the dayclub component of the Fontainebleau complex — operates as the outdoor pool party venue during the summer season, with the same LIV brand identity applied to an afternoon crowd in swimwear rather than a late-night crowd in club attire. DJ Camilo's Latin music expertise makes him a particularly effective choice for the pool party format, where Latin rhythms' association with outdoor, warm-weather environments creates a natural connection between his repertoire and the context. Hakkasan at MGM Grand provides the third and largest-scale venue context for his Las Vegas appearances: 80,000 square feet across five levels, with the main room capable of holding 3,800 guests and its own celebrated Cantonese restaurant and multi-floor lounge ecosystem that extends the venue experience well beyond the main dance floor. For guests unfamiliar with Las Vegas nightlife, Hakkasan bookings represent the city's closest equivalent to a festival-scale indoor experience, where the DJ's performance unfolds at a scale that changes the crowd dynamic relative to smaller venue formats. Across all three venues, DJ Camilo's open format adaptability means his set direction reflects the specific crowd that shows up on any given night rather than a fixed program prepared in advance — the defining characteristic of a DJ whose career has been built on reading a room rather than programming for an abstract demographic.

New York City Latin and open format DJ with a radio presence on La Mega 97.9 FM — one of New York's most-listened-to Spanish-language stations — and club bookings across New York City, Miami, and Las Vegas. His 2026 residency bookings at LIV at Fontainebleau Las Vegas, LIV Beach, and Hakkasan Nightclub at MGM Grand place him within three of the Strip's highest-volume nightclub environments, where his genre fluency across Latin music and open format serves the diverse Las Vegas Strip crowd. At LIV at Fontainebleau, DJ Camilo performs on Select dates — LIV at Fontainebleau, LIV Beach, and Hakkasan (2026 season), commanding some of the venue's most in-demand time slots.

DJ Camilo currently performs at LIV at Fontainebleau and LIV Beach and Hakkasan in Las Vegas, typically on Select dates — LIV at Fontainebleau, LIV Beach, and Hakkasan (2026 season). Their sets span Latin / Open Format, delivering a sound that has earned them one of the most dedicated followings in the Las Vegas residency circuit.

DJ Camilo's sound: Latin and open format DJ whose genre fluency spans reggaeton, hip-hop, merengue, bachata, salsa, and Top 40 without audible seams — DJ Camilo deploys the crowd-reading skills refined across two decades of New York City radio and nightclub work to hold diverse Las Vegas Strip crowds through the full arc of a set at LIV at Fontainebleau and Hakkasan, moving between Latin and American urban music registers as the room's composition and energy evolve. At LIV at Fontainebleau, the professional sound systems and production infrastructure amplify every element of their performance — from the sub-bass to the high-end clarity.

DJ Camilo typically takes the stage on Select dates — LIV at Fontainebleau, LIV Beach, and Hakkasan (2026 season). Their sets run 60 to 90 minutes and deliver the full Vegas production experience with professional sound, lighting, and crowd energy that you cannot find anywhere else.

General admission cover charges for DJ Camilo shows are $20-50 — FREE with NoCoverVegas guest list. With NoCoverVegas, you skip the cover charge entirely and receive a free guest list entry from your hotel to the venue.