Long before she set heads spinning with her voluptuous figure and stunning good looks, Colleen Shannon was spinning turntables as she nurtured her long-standing passion for mixing music. Colleen now carries two impressive titles to match her beauty and her talent: Playboy’s 50th Anniversary Playmate and The World’s Sexiest DJ. The success and notoriety from both has brought her national and international magazine covers and features, roles in film and television, major print modeling campaigns, globally distributed posters and calendars, and the opportunity to DJ for some of the world’s biggest superclubs, venues and events.
Since being named Playboy’s 50th Anniversary Playmate in January 2004, her work with Playboy has not only continued, it has expanded. Colleen now hosts her own weekly radio show, Playmate Club, on Sirius XM 99 (the Playboy channel), where she talks sex, celebrity and spinning tunes with world-renowned DJs, musicians, actors and others. In 2009 Colleen DJed “Game Day at the Playboy Mansion,” a Super Bowl celebration starring Bret Michaels of Poison. In 2008 she graced the cover of Playboy Mexico. And following the release of Playboy’s 50th Anniversary issue in 2004, Playboy not only released a sexy stand alone of Colleen, but also produced an International Special Edition of that issue and sent Colleen on an international promotional tour.
Her World’s Sexiest DJ crown has also brought Colleen tremendous media attention and high profile DJ gigs across the country and around the world. She has become the industry’s leading female celebrity DJ, and has mixed music in Sweden, Norway, South Africa, Hong Kong, Korea and Canada, and in such cities as London, Paris, Las Vegas, Miami and New York City. Already, 2010 has already seen the release of two DJ mixed albums from her: DJ Colleen Shannon, Red Hot 2010 (Sony Music), featuring tunes from such artists as Black Eyed Peas, Pitbull, Shakira and Kelly Clarkson, and DJ Colleen Shannon, World’s Sexiest DJ, Presents Too Hot for TV (Next Music), celebrating the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. She also hosted the DMC Scratch and Mix Contest at the Winter Music Conference in Miami, and has worked on two soon-to-be-released DJ documentaries: Party Rocka and World’s Greatest DJs.
Some of Colleen’s other DJ credits include the Frederick’s of Hollywood in-store bathing suit launch party, playing Hard Rock Hotels and Casinos across the country, the official 2009 Emmy Awards after party, the Mansion Miami New Year’s Eve party hosted by Kim Kardashian, being named resident DJ alongside famed DJ AM at PURE nightclub in Las Vegas, and serving as summer resident DJ at the VIP Room in St. Tropez for the last three years.
Colleen’s national and international magazine covers and features include Playboy, Maxim,XXL, Music Connection, Loaded, OK, SuperStreet, IN and more. She was the headlining DJ with Sting in Atlantic City, and has played with Snoop Dogg at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas as well as with electro hip-hop group LMFAO and fellow femme spinner Sandra Collins, aka The Goddess of Trance, at superclub The City in Cancun. Additionally, she has shared the stage with some of the biggest DJs in the business, including The Crystal Method, Paul Oakenfold, DJ Rap, Donald Glaude, Funk Master Flex, Jazzy Jeff, Beej, and Bad Boy Bill.
Her film credits include Chasing Ghosts (in which she played a DJ), featured roles in Sci-Fighter and Miss Castaway and the Island Girls, as well as the upcoming horror flick, The Passing. On television she has been seen in How I Met Your Mother, has hosted Showtime’sVIP Access and The Red Carpet, and has appeared in shows from Canada, Mexico and the UK. She has a dozen national commercials to her credit, including spots for AT&T, Bacardi, Pepsi and Nokia, and has brought her considerable sex appeal to music videos for Crazy Town, George Michael, Dido and Smashmouth.
Colleen’s DJ work has kept her continuously on the international tour circuit since 2004. She is currently represented by The Windish Agency in the U.S., Spin Artist in Canada, and Formula 13 in the U.K. Visit her at www.djcolleenshannon.com.
