Mixing the glamour of Hollywood with the cool of the underground, moving elegantly between premieres, nightlife, and the world's most infamous dance floors.
“One of the coolest people in Manhattan” The New York Times
Daisy O’Dell’s career is defined by taste rather than genre or setting. Grounded in a deep and wide-ranging musical knowledge, her work is intuitive, precise, and highly specific.
She has DJed nights that have left a lasting imprint on the cultural zeitgeist, often at the direct invitation of icons: all-vinyl for Grace Jones at her Hollywood Bowl afterparty; marathon sets that kept Prince dancing until dawn; appearances alongside Lady Gaga, Lou Reed, Stevie Wonder, and Doja Cat; selected to play Martin Gore of Depeche Mode’s sixtieth birthday; and tapped by Baz Luhrmann for his 2025 Met Gala afterparty, a six-hour performance described by Vogue as “a decadent Halloween rave, equal parts glamorous, goth, and a little surreal.”
She is regularly brought in to shape the sound of Hollywood’s most visible nights. Recent world premieres include Wuthering Heights, One Battle After Another, A Complete Unknown, and Dune: Part Two, placing her at the center of the industry’s most high-profile moments.
In nightlife, her work spans a global circuit of velvet-rope exclusivity, underground warehouse, and influential club, with a reputation for unique deeply musical, often all-vinyl sets. She is a partner and resident DJ of Simon Says, named Best Party in Los Angeles and described by the Los Angeles Times as “Studio 54 for outcasts and dreamers.”
As a Music Director and Composer, her work expands into building complete musical worlds, shaping the sound of a project from concept through performance. She has developed original arrangements and live programming for artists and institutions alike, including her longstanding role as music director for ELLE’s Women in Hollywood and Variety’s Power Of series. She was the tastemaker Disney turned to when Angelina Jolie was developing the sonic world of Maleficent, resulting in Lana Del Rey’s “Once Upon a Dream,” for which she received a Golden Trailer Award. Baz Luhrmann commissioned an original mashup for the Elvis deluxe soundtrack released on RCA.
Her work as a composer includes scoring the Emmy® Award–winning PBS series Variety: Actors on Actors. Alongside this, she produces original music, remixes, and re-edits, including her ‘Versions’ series, recognized by KCRW as “Best New Music,” with reinterpretations of Nico, David Bowie, and Björk.