Tommie Sunshine knows what's truly important in life: love and music. Not surprisingly, things such as talking to reporters while changing planes in Miami en route from his home in New York to a gig in Lima, Peru, are not so high on this musical all-rounder's list of priorities.
'Hold on just a minute,' he says after answering the phone. 'It's my girlfriend on the other line.'
Sunshine, 36, known to his girlfriend as Thomas Lorello, is recognised by clubbers for his sunglasses, long tresses and a salt-and-pepper beard.
Although he's been DJing his entire adult life, it's only been in the past few years that his brand of infectious electro and genre-less chaos has fired the imagination of many in the music world.
After hopscotching his way through South America, the dance music aficionado returns to Hong Kong after a year's absence for a third spell behind the decks at Volar tomorrow night.
'I just played at Roberto Cavalli's villa in Florence,' he says, back on the phone. Cavalli needed