DJ Milla Killa performs on stage, wearing headphones and a black top, illuminated by bright, crossed blue spotlights while working at a laptop and mixer.
Milla Killa plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on Jan. 12, 2024. Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Where Mila Killa goes, so does the party.

One of the Bay area’s top DJs over the last year, the Peruvian curates a a samba night monthly, but spends Tuesdays at Tampa Heights rooftop bar M. Bird to spin a mix of reggaeton, dancehall, Afrobeat, Brazilian funk and more.

There’s no cover for ¡Ritmo! with Mila Killa happening Tuesdays through Jan. 6 at M. Bird in Tampa.

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This article appears in Oct. 30 – Nov. 5, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...