DJ Soda

DJ Soda — real name Hwang So-hee — is one of those artists who quietly became a festival institution before the wider world caught on. Born in Seoul in 1988, she built her whole career on the live crowd energy of Asian festival circuits, becoming a fixture at events like the S2O Songkran Musical Festival in Thailand, which is basically a giant water fight with a killer soundtrack. What I find genuinely impressive is that she carved out a headliner reputation in a DJ world that still skews heavily male, doing it through consistent touring rather than one viral moment. She only started DJing in June 2013 and began touring at Korea's World DJ Festival in 2015, which makes the rise even more striking. The music does the talking, the crowd gets soaked, and she moves on to the next city. That's a pretty clean way to run a career.

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Name (English)

DJ Soda

Name (Japanese)

DJ SODA

Reading

でぃーじぇい そだ

Born

April 7, 1988 (age 38)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

disc jockey

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/deejaysoda/
• Xhttps://x.com/dj_soda_
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ%20Soda
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ%20SODA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19939182

Tags

• disc jockey

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.