Dajim

Dajim
Background information
Birth name	Suwitcha Suphawira
Born	January 15, 1977 (1977-01-15) (age 34) Thailand
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Singer, lyricist, DJ
Instruments	Singer
Years active	2000-present
Labels	2000-2002, 2009--present: N.Y.U. Club 2002-2004: Genie Records

Dajim (Thai: ดาจิม), real name Suwitcha Suphawira (Thai: สุวิชชา สุภาวีระ), (born January 15, 1977) is a Thai hip hop singer and rap artist.

Biography

Before entering the music industry, Dajim worked at his father's video store and as a sales clerk at Tower Records. He later teamed up with his friend DJ Dig-it-all to produce his first album, Hip Hop Underworld, and to start an underground record label, N.Y.U. Club. He began working as a DJ on Khao San Road around this time.

he offensive content of Dajim's songs led to his arrest in September 2001 under the controversial "social order" policies (Thai: จัดการระเบียบสังคม) of then-Interior Minister Purachai Piumsombun. In particular, the song Sueak Thammai (Why bothers?) (Thai: เสือกทำไม)became something of an anthem for club DJs in protest of new early closure laws, who would blast the song when authorities came to shut them down for the night. As a result, sale of his two independently-released albums was forbidden. He joined GMM Grammy's subsidiary label Genie Records in 2002, and released his third album, Rap Thai, that same year. When his early albums began to resurface for sale at Pantip Plaza and other locations, Dajim was arrested again in April 2002, but he claimed that this distribution was done without his consent or knowledge, and was either counterfeit goods or leftover stock of the banned albums.[1]

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