A self-taught DJ who quit her £50,000 a year job to follow her dream will perform at Glastonbury.<br /><br />Sammy Dean, 50, was a sales manager at a newbuild property developer for more than 20 years when she decided to re-learn how to mix songs in lockdown.<br /><br />After playing at a few festivals, she jacked in her job to pursue her passion of playing house music full-time.<br /><br />And after performing at Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, Somerset, last year, she's been invited back to play for the second time.<br /><br />Mum-of-two Sammy said: "I played in one of the bars and I was really grateful to have that opportunity. <br /><br />"When I started playing, there was only around 40 or 50 people but by the end of my two-hour set, it was absolutely rammed and you couldn't get in. <br /><br />"It proper went off - it was so good. <br /><br />"I've managed to get myself another set and play again so I'm just working my way up. <br /><br />"It's so difficult to even play at a bar at Glastonbury because everyone wants to play, whether it's in a bar or a stage."<br /><br />Sammy taught herself to DJ when she was a teenager and would play at small venues, but she stopped when she had her daughters Maddox, 21, and Rhea, 18.<br /><br />But she still had the vinyl decks in her house in Warrington, Cheshire, so decided to re-teach herself how to play the music during lockdown.<br /><br />She said: "I taught myself how to mix but I only ever really played at house parties and then I played at a few small venues in London in the nineties. <br /><br />"But I never pushed myself to be a DJ so I missed the boat really and then I had children.<br /><br />"Everyone was saying I should DJ again but I didn't have time, and then we went into lockdown so I had the time to pick it up again."<br /><br />Sammy decided to leave her old job, where she earned around £50,000 a year, because she didn't have enough holidays to keep going to different festivals. <br /><br />She says 'everybody said she was mental' when she told them her plans - but she wanted to do it because she realised her life could be 'cut short' at any point. <br /><br />Sammy said: "I was going to different festivals and was using my holidays and then I would go to another and that was another week off work.<br /><br />"I was like 'I've not got enough annual leave to do this' and if I'm going to do it, then I knew I would have to leave my job.<br /><br />"I'm a bit impulsive and I was going to Ibiza and I was like 'right I can't do a job as well, I'm going to have to quit' and everybody said I was mental. <br /><br />"I wasn't thinking 'I'm going to be a superstar DJ' - I just realised that my life can be cut short at any time."<br /><br />Sammy, who now also works a freelance estate agent, plans to release another track in this summer and also hopes to perform at more festivals this year. <br /><br />She says she enjoys playing for the crowds because it's 'a really good feeling' and 'there's not many other jobs that give you that.'<br /><br />Sammy said: "When you get a really good crowd and you can see people dancing to the music your playing, then it's a good job satisfaction.<br /><br />"And you can see people vibing
