Simone DuJour is an American musician of African, European, and Native American ancestry. She is one third of the Soul Force DJ team. She was born to a musician family, as her father is a Hammond B3 Organist, who played for one of Minneapolis' original Funk bands, The Time, with co-musicians Terry Lewis, Jellybean Johnson and Cynthia Johnson, better known from her hit single Funkytown. Her brother is a jazz saxophonist and her cousin is one of the Twin City's youngest multi-instrumentalist. She started her DJ career spinning records at the age of 19.

By 2004, Simone began playing on Macalester College radio station, WMCN. There she got the feel for spinning Chicago House and Tribal music for the public. Her affair with the turn tables took her in front of an audience by 2007 where she spun at pubs and bars in NYC.

In 2008, upon returning to her home town, she began playing house parties and block parties in her local Powderhorn neighborhood of Minneapolis, as well as producing and mixing. (Tika's Dream and ShaWoman features her earliest dabblings in the studio.) Her first nightclub residency was at Conga Latin Bistro, in NE Minneapolis, and later she moved to Ginger Hop, then the The Science Museum in St. Paul. During the early twenty-tens DuJour was playing at one of the most influential nightclubs for music, Honey.

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