by Charles Chemery, AFI FEST Daily News

Valida spins at 8:00 and 11:00 PM, November 11 at the Music Cafe in the Moviefone Cinema Lounge at AFI FEST 2006.

For AFI FEST 2006 presented by Audi, the Music Cafe at the Moviefone Cinema Lounge features top DJs and live performers from Los Angeles.

Emerging and established artists, including solo acts and major bands, perform a wide variety of music, including Afro-Cuban rhumba, Chicago blues, pop, jazz, folk, deep house, and hip-hop.

The final night of the Music Cafe, Saturday November 11, features Valida (8:00 PM and 11:00 PM), L'Esprit d'Afrique (9:00 PM) and Adele Jacques (10:00 PM).

Valida

Valida was dubbed one of LA's hottest personalities by LA.com and is one of the Southland's busiest DJs.

She has performed with Bebel Gilberto and shared decks with electronic giants such as Jazzanova, Mark de Clive-Lowe, DJ Yellow, John Beltran, Osunlade, and Seiji.

Valida is currently a resident DJ at The Standard Downtown in Los Angeles. This summer she deejayed the John Lennon bus at the X Games and the Spring Breakdown wrap party in LA.

She also went home to Bosnia for a bit to rock Sarajevo's Club Africa.

Apart from that, Valida has been spinning at the E3 Microsoft party at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Purple Room, Conga Room, Tokio and Memphis.

Valida describes herself as a "huge film buff." She graduated from UCLA with a Masters in Film Production and produced her own feature documentary, CONCENTRIC BEATS, about "drum and bass."

Adele Jacques

Adele Jacques, a professional actress and singer from Paris, moved to the US two years ago.

Her band, BEL-AIR, was a struggling yet steady mainstay of the Parisian Music Scene in the late 1990s, but it wasn't until 2000 in New York City, after a gig at The Knitting Factory, that she finally had her moment of clarity.

The next morning her photograph turned up on the front page of The New York Times Entertainment section, along with a glowing review.

"Hmm," she remembers saying to herself. "Peut-etre ca va marcher."

Adele has since moved to California, and collaborated with many diverse musicians in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

While continuing to create her own original brand of alternative pop, she also heads Paris Loves LA, a cabaret-style show featuring over 20 Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot songs, bringing back to life the swing and cocktail chic of 1960s Paris.

The talented pianist Russell Roy Rinker of "The Saloon Door Slammers," and the masterful percussion player, Vincent Verderame, (Tom Jones, Blue Man Group), join Adele Jacques along with the young and up-and-coming contra-bass player, Trevor Davis.