NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Kelli Hand on 20 August 2021. Kelli Hand has been played on NTS over 80 times, featured on 60 episodes and was first played on 23 June 2013.

Kelli Hand (1965 – August 3, 2021) aka K-HAND was named “the first lady of Detroit” by the city’s council in 2017, acknowledging a career in which she was a rare Black woman in dance music production and DJing.

Born and raised in Detroit, she began DJing in the late 80s, producing her own music and founded the label Acacia Records, to release tracks spanning jackin’ house, ghettotech and…