Sumiko Iwamuro is an 82-year-old dumpling-maker who has been running a restaurant in Tokyo for over six decades. But she also moonlights as Sumirock, a techno DJ at the DecaBarZ nightclub in the Shinjuku district.
A part of me just became deeply frightened at the thought that I will never be this fucking cool.
If you love dumplings, techno and old nans then you’ll go nuts for Sumirock, the 82-year-old Tokyo DJ who parties like it’s 1950.
Iwamuro got into DJing at age 70 when she was selecting tunes for her son’s birthday party. Now she is a hit among the younger set in Tokyo.
“It’s fundamentally techno music, but just that would be boring,” she tells Al Jezeera America of the music she plays. “I add jazz, French chanson and a bit of classical music.”
Learn more about Iwamuro and check out a past set below.
By day, this 87-year-old Japanese woman makes dumplings. By night, she’s spinning records in Tokyo’s red-light district.
Meet DJ Dumpling pic.twitter.com/lRwjH2ErBx
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) April 12, 2017
This article originally appeared on Fact Mag.
