As a promoter, she booked
Skrillex before he came to mainstream attention. She lived with several DJs when she was 18, and after briefly studying fashion she dropped out and started DJing full-time in Phoenix in 2012 aged 19. Initially she played events such as weddings, collaborating with Eric Daily on Deux Yeux, a French house and nu-disco duo. She got the name "
Mija" (Spanish slang for "my daughter") as a nickname from her then-boyfriend. Billboard listed her among "15 Female DJs You Need to Know Now" in October 2015. Giles describes her musical style as "fk a
genre", not liking to be categorised. and her agents are
Paradigm Talent Agency. Giles feels that she has been the equal of her male peers and that the male domination of the EDM scene is slowly changing. In 2015, MIJA started Fk A Genre, a tour & promotion brand that programs diverse genres of music into a single show. "It (Fk A Genre) gave artists free range to do whatever they wanted to do, and not what their normal fan base expected." In 2016, Giles launched Made By Mija, a fashion brand based out of Los Angeles, where she is the primary designer. On February 26, 2020, Mija released her debut full-length album, Desert Trash, via Never B Alone / Create Music Group, with Mija's vocals, songwriting, guitar, piano and production.
Breakthrough In June 2014, she played at the
Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee on the
Burning Man art car Kalliope after being spotted at a local gig in Phoenix on her 22nd birthday the weekend before. That August, she played
Burning Man She began to learn production and organised a tour in Mexico. In August she played at the
Shambhala In September–October 2015, she did a
sick af. World Tour, ending in Asia supporting Skrillex's tour. She was the only female performer on the lineup for the
Road to Ultra in
Singapore and
the Philippines, closing the Philippines festival with Skrillex on stage.
Releases On Skrillex's label
Owsla, which she has described as being like a family, Regarding the release of her first full-length album in 2020, in interviews Mija described the project as a personal journey. "I needed to step outside of my comfort zone and into something that would become a catalyst for my next development as an artist," she said in a press release. "I wrote this album with the intention of stripping down all the excess and focusing on what truly matters to me; self-expression, realness, and the story." Giles remains an independent/unsigned artist. She has released collaborations on labels,
Owsla and Fools Gold. ==Discography==