The former J -Pop star who became DJ made his debut on the DO LAB – Orange County Register stadium

When she went on the Do Lab scene on Sunday April 20 at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Shima, a former Japanese pop star that became DJ, held a promise that she made years ago.

“This is the first time that I have been going to Coachella. I never went to Coachella. I told myself that when I moved to Los Angeles six years ago that the first time I would go to Coachella, it was when I played there. I will only go if I play there and that it finally happens,” said the artist born in Tokyo.

His debut in Coachella was an hour-long performance filled with his electronic gender mixture that included trap, hip-hop, house and techno music as well as Latin and Asian rhythms. Like his mixed history, he covered the global sounds that made the first to dance at the start of the day.

“It is definitely experimental electronic music. With my education in Japan, I try to incorporate traditional Japanese music elements, as I exchange many traditional Japanese instruments or folkes songs and I try to create a sound that seems exotic but familiar at the same time,” she said.

This sound resounded with the people of Do Lab.

“I loved it. It was trans and super cold, but he always made me want to dance. I’m going to follow her, “said Sienna Garcia, a Pasadena resident, who had never heard of Shima before catching her.

Although it is not a familiar name at Coachella, Shima has long been in the music industry.

She began her career at the age of 14 when she was signed in a Japanese label and became part of the J-Pop Faky group. But the manufactured group was not exactly what it was looking for,

“I listened to all kinds of things, but I didn’t like J-Pop at all. I was listening to Beyoncé, Björk, Christina Aguilera and really independent electronic stuff like Crystal Castles and Nicolas Jaar, and I also had my Nirvana phase,” she said.

Without creative control in the J-POP group, she decided to go solo and occur in her own words, which led her to produce and perform as DJ for her dream concert on the Do Lab of Coachella.

“I feel incredibly delighted that this is the scene I play,” she said.