DJ Keoki

Keoki Franconi was born in El Salvador but moved to Kihei, Maui, when he was 8.[1] After graduating from Kailua High School he moved to the mainland to study at an airline school in California. When that didn't work, he moved to New York City and got a job with Trans World Airlines in New York, tracking lost luggage[3] while also being a busboy at the city's trendy Danceteria club.[1] It was at Danceteria that he got his start:
I kept bugging a nearby club's manager to, please, please, please let me DJ there. I told him I knew how to do it, even though I only had a small collection of records and one turntable at home. He let me play a lounge gig on some of the slower nights. He told me to 'play whatever the fuck you want, so long as they stay,' words I've continued to live by to this day.
—DJ Keoki,

It was while DJing at Disco 2000 Alig's party night at the Limelight that one of the biggest myths about Keoki began, the one where Mr Superstar passed out on the turntables while doing a set, "I guarantee you that never fucking happened" states DJ Keoki. [4] The myth is true, however the location is simply incorrect. The club at which Keoki passed out at, on the turn tables, was at Simon's Club in Gainesville, Florida. He also stole the club owner's car and disappeared, which caused him to be banned from DJing at the club. Franconi and Alig both developed expensive drug habits and began to grow apart. Alig's drug use indebted him to Angel Melendez, whom he murdered after an argument over many things including a long-standing drug debt.[5] Subsequently, Alig became a fugitive from the law and Franconi broke all ties with him.