Spotlight Entertainer

Each quarter the MIADJA will select one of its members to spotlight. The person or company can give you greater detail about who they are and what they specialize in. This quarter we spotlight Gregory Chahil Owner, Celebrity Sound & Lighting.

1) What is the name of your company?
Celebrity Sound & Lighting

2) What services does your company offer?
Event co-ordination and planning, DJ/MC, sound, lighting, slide show and music video screens.

3) How Long have you been in business?
1994

4) What type of market do you concentrate on if any?
Wedding and corporate events that want more than "just a DJ".

5) What is the average number of events you perform each year?
25

6) What areas of Michigan do you serve?
Southern Lower Peninsula

7) What are your favorite style of events to perform?
Events where the client is detail oriented and is looking for more than the DJ at the corner bar.

8) How many people in your company?
3

9) What is your favorite style of music?
Club, Techno, Christian

10) What is the most memorable moment of your entertainment career?
While we were loading our vehicle at the end of the night for one of our very first wedding receptions about 13 years ago at Burton Manor in Livonia I heard a woman screaming for help. I looked across the parking lot toward the overpass on I-96 and a guy had a woman by her throat pushing her backwards over the railing of the freeway. I don't know if no one else could hear her or if no one wanted to get involved but no one was helping. I told my wife Sue, "that woman needs help" and ran towards them. When the guy noticed me running in his direction he let her go and took off running. These were guests that were attending our reception. When I got to the woman she was extremely shaken up and she walked back to our van where Sue was standing watching it all. We asked her if she wanted to call or go to the police and she said no. She was from out of town staying at a nearby hotel and we offered her a ride back. She accepted. Apparently she rode to the reception with someone and her car was at the hotel. We walked her to her room and like an idiot I went in first to make sure that the strangler wasn't in there. I'm not sure if the two of them rode there together or what thier relationship was but she thanked us and locked the door. So I took my cape off and we went home.