Nate Acosta

In his own words

The short version.

Nate's first gig was his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. His mom and his tías were hunting for a DJ, one of them said let's just have Nate do it, and that was that — fifteen years old, running a room full of family in a small West Texas town. He hasn't stopped since.

A thousand-plus weddings later he founded DNA, and he's still behind the decks most Saturdays. He's based in Grand Prairie, takes bookings across the country and a handful overseas, and spends part of his year on stage as a speaker and educator to other wedding DJs — which is a long way of saying the standard the rest of this roster is trained to is his.

He's also the most visible DJ in DFW, on purpose: 60,000+ followers on Instagram, close to 30,000 on TikTok, thousands more on YouTube. That matters to a couple for one practical reason — you can watch him actually work, at dozens of real weddings, before you ever get on a call with him.

“When you're prepared, you don't have to react — because you're already prepared for it.”

Hear it, see it

What Nate
actually sounds like.

• Cumbia
• Regional Mexican
• Latin
• Top 40
• Hip-Hop
• Motown
• Disco
• Funk
• Open format

The night he wants

A multicultural room with a wide variety of music and the creative freedom to run the floor. Give him that and you'll get his best work — watching a room full of people who don't share a language sing and dance to the same song is the whole reason he still does this.