Sai Versailles


Multimedia Journalist

A controversial drug raid leads to the closure of a dance club in Manila, leaving a music subculture lost and scrambling.

Filipino food is gaining worldwide popularity. But as the diaspora grapples with the country's multicultural history, the cuisine's identity is yet to be established.

In Manila, Heritage Architecture Struggles to Survive


With the demolishing of Capitol Theatre, one of Manila’s last remaining art-deco theaters, the city’s cultural landmarks face a precarious future as it finds its footing in a transforming urban landscape.
CNN

To those who knew the artist, no headline could ever capture the complex truth of her humanity. But there are beautiful traces of it.








Photographer
01 — Editorial
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02 — Portraits



Dub and ambient techno
Featured on RA’s Mix Of The Day

Dance film scores and soundtracks  

R’n’B, hip-hop, soul, afrobeat




About

Sai Versailles is a multimedia journalist focused on culture reporting and writing. 

Under her DJ artist name Versailles, Sai traverses a range of genres with especially deep crates of film scores and soundtracks, as well as percussive and hypnotic electronic music. 

Sai is also the curator of the newsletter and radio show, Cultural Learnings. Once described as radiating “the fond specificity of “a mixtape smothered in fingerprints,” the Cultural Learnings radio show is a sonic exploration of one theme – whether a music or film genre, an artist, or a carefully curated “vibe” à la field recordings, sound bites, interviews, and more.
 
Versailles’ residency on Refuge Worldwide covers a spectral library of music where “rhythm and beat coalesce,” such in jazz, hip-hop, R’n’B, soul, reggae, and dub.

Sai earned an MPhil from the University of Oxford.


Press

Feature
Vogue Philippines, 2023.


Feature
Mixmag Asia, 2022.


Podcast interview
Dead Air Podcast, 2022


Interview
Mixmag Asia, 2021.


Feature
Out Of Print, 2021.


Podcast interview
Monday Off Radio, 2020


Feature
nolisoli.ph, 2019.
 

Vogue Philipines, May 2023
Shot by Sharif Hamza