Jasmine Solano is an American musician and disc jockey who founded and hosted the Scratch the Surface series on MTV, and in 2008 she teamed with DJ MeLo-X to perform internationally as Electric Punanny.

[10] With the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan, Solano started combining music and political activism, organizing a multimedia protest against war.

[11] She learned turntablism from a friend who worked at Siren Records in the Doylestown area north of Philadelphia, and by watching videos of deejay competitions.

The show is the origin of her stage name Jasmine Solano,[11] and it earned her the "Best Female Radio Personality" at the New England Urban Music Awards in 2006.

[3] During her college years, Solano participated in the Semester at Sea program, taking the opportunity to connect with the underground music scene of ten different countries.

Red Bull Music Academy also noticed Solano, inviting her to deejay and host shows starting in late 2009 in New York City.

[15] Other VJ and DJ clients include MTV, HBO, Apple, Margiela, Fendi, Nike, Adidas, Cosmopolitan, and Nylon magazine.

[19] Solano played a set in Palm Springs during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April 2017, as part of an all-female deejay pop-up party sponsored by Beats by Dre.

Personal electronics maker House of Marley sponsored a tour of North America in early 2014, including a performance at the "Do Over Party" in Palm Springs after the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

[43] In January 2017, Solano founded the Unity in Color movement, a photography series showing communities around the world, brought together to promote women's rights.

At WERS in Boston, she started spinning hip-hop, R&B and reggae, then she created the show "The Secret Spot" which featured sexy slow jams.

[40] Solano lists Betty Davis, Nikka Costa, Erykah Badu, and Gwen Stefani as strong women in music who have influenced her work.