DJ Soul Sister is an internationally known veteran DJ artist whose broadcast programs and live performances feature selections from her personal collection of thousands of vinyl records, earning her a spot in the book Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting.

A New Orleans native, Soul Sister has hosted her Soul Power show on WWOZ FM New Orleans for more than 30 years and has hosted internationally aired radio programs on Sonos Radio, Worldwide FM, and other platforms. She has been collecting vinyl records since the age of six and a dedicated crate digger since high school.

Soul Sister self-produced her first event in 1997, and her signature sets and parties—including the long-running HUSTLE! party—have helped make her one of New Orleans’ longest-running DJ artists. Her sets feature only music she loves, as she improvisationally and skillfully mixes, blends, and beat-matches vinyl-only selections of 1970s–mid-1980s R&B, funk, soul, rare groove, underground disco, jazz fusion, true school hip hop, and more.

As a performance DJ, Soul Sister was the first recipient of New Orleans’ Big Easy Entertainment Award for “Best DJ.” She has performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Voodoo Music Experience; Essence Music Festival, where she became the festival’s first-ever mainstage DJ; BUKU Music & Art Project, Jam Cruise, Boiler Room, Electric Forest, and more.

She has opened for many of her favorite artists, including George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, The Roots, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, DāM-FunK, Average White Band, George Duke, Teena Marie, Doug E. Fresh, ConFunkShun, the funky Meters, Dumpstaphunk, Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers, Soul Rebels, Lettuce, Tower of Power, and many more. She has also performed alongside DJ artists and producers including Questlove, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Mannie Fresh, KON, Maseo of De La Soul, Low Down Loretta Brown (Erykah Badu), Rich Medina, Biz Markie, and others. George Clinton personally invited her to DJ his 71st birthday party. Solange has called her “wonderful” and “life given,” while DJ artist King Britt named her among his top three DJs.

Soul Sister’s mission has always been to share music, but her work extends beyond the DJ booth. She is equally dedicated to music education as a writer, researcher, archivist, and university instructor, and earned an M.A. in Musicology from Tulane University in 2026.

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