Miss Monique

About

Alesia Arkusha (Ukrainian: Алеся Аркуша; born May 5, 1992), known professionally as Miss Monique, is a Ukrainian DJ, producer and owner of Siona Records. She became known in the electronic music world due to the creation of the YouTube channels “Mind Games” and “MiMo Weekly”, but also due to releases on labels such as Tomorrowland Music, Armada, Drumcode and Black Hole Recordings, as well as remixes for David Guetta, Moby and Madonna. She is now into her second season as an Ibiza resident DJ, taking over the Club Room at Hï Ibiza for 2026.

Born in Kirovograd (now Kropyvnytskyi) in central Ukraine, Miss Monique moved to Kyiv with her family aged 8, and began frequenting clubs there from the age of 16.
After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, Miss Monique and her family spent the first two weeks living in a basement in Kyiv, sleeping in cars. They had to flee to Vinnytsia in early March, and a few days later out of the country. She described the Russian attack on her country as ‘hell’, and ‘the hardest experience of my life’. Miss Monique currently lives in Portugal.

Miss Monique found her vocation at the beginning of the…