Olesia Arkusha, known professionally as Miss Monique, is a Ukrainian DJ and producer. She became known in the electronic music world due to the creation of the YouTube channels "Mind Games" and "MiMo Weekly", but also due to releases on labels such as Black Hole Recordings and Bonzai Progressive.
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Artist Biography
Born • May 05, 1992
Olesia Arkusha's career began in 2011 when she performed in Ukraine for two years. She and her partner figured her name would be too complicated for foreigners, and after considering several French names, they chose "Miss Monique". The year 2013 was marked by the creation of a radio show called Mind Games. The growth in her popularity allowed her to gain foreign listeners. Thanks to this, Miss Monique started to perform in several international concert halls, and in 2014 began a cooperation with the label Freegrant Music.
The tracks released on this label were recognised by some of the world's major DJs, in particular Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk, Paul Oakenfold, Gareth Emery, and others. She gave over 100 performances in 2016 in Belgium, China, Mexico and Egypt. In 2019 she played in Cyprus, having previously held concerts in Ibiza, Hungary, Belarus, the Czech Republic and India. She continued her tours in 2022 in Argentina, Israel, Spain, Hungary and Florida, eventually having played in some forty countries since her debut. Originally from Ukraine, she found her vocation at the beginning of the 2010s. Based in Kyiv, Miss Monique gradually made a name for herself and became one of the most recognised DJs in Eastern Europe. Miss Monique is also considered the most recognised female progressive house artist in Europe Miss Monique is one of the 20 most popular Ukrainian pop stars, and her hit Way of the Wind was ranked the 14th best progressive house song of the year 2021.
Some of her videos posted on YouTube routinely reach 500,000 views, and some up to two million views By April 2019, her Radio Intense set had reached 13 million views. Her green-dyed hair remains a distinctive feature in her performances. 24 February 2022, Miss Monique and her family spent the first two weeks living in a basement in Kyiv, sleeping in cars. Then had to flee to Vinnytsia in early March, and a few days later out of the country. She described the Russian attack on her country as...