Soap&Skin

What draws me to Soap&Skin is the refusal to perform comfort. Anja Plaschg builds music from raw nerve and piano, and her work feels less like entertainment than confession. That she expanded into acting and earned an Austrian Best Actress award in 2024 tells me she is an artist who follows the truth of a moment wherever it leads, across mediums. I respect performers who would rather be honest than likeable, and she sits firmly in that camp. In an industry that rewards polish, her willingness to stay fragile and strange is exactly what makes her worth returning to.

Name (English)

Soap&Skin

Name (Japanese)

ソープ&スキン

Reading

そーぷ&すきん

Born

April 5, 1990 (age 36)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

Origin

Gnas, Styria, Austria

Occupation

musician / singer / actor / stage actor / pianist

Awards & achievements

• Amadeus Austrian Music Awards
• 2024 Austrian Film Award for Best Actress
• 2024 Outstanding Artist Award for Music

• Official sitehttps://www.soapandskin.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/anja.f.plaschg/
• Xhttps://x.com/anjaplaschg
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap%26Skin
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78837

Tags

• Styria
• musician
• singer
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.