Santanna Oush Gave Ibiza's Women DJs a Stage of Their Own. She Died at 38, and It Isn't Going Dark.

Who was Santanna Oush?

Santanna Maria Ally grew up in London and picked up a mixer more than two decades ago, before Ibiza pulled her in for good. Over the past year alone she played a run of the White Isle's defining rooms: Pikes, elrow, [UNVRS], La Discothèque, Akash and 528, the kind of booking sheet that takes most DJs a career to assemble. She also kept it grassroots, running an open mic night at the Las Dalias flea market, the unglamorous room-building that never makes a highlight reel but is exactly how scenes actually get built.

She died on August 9 at Houghton festival in Norfolk, aged 38. Resident Advisor reports that a coroner's inquest into her death opened on August 18 and is scheduled to be heard on December 15, 2026. Tributes have arrived from across the industry: the Pikes team called her passing "shocking, saddening and heartbreaking" after "well over a decade" with the venue's family, and DJ Bushwacka wrote she "brought so much love and laughter to many of us." A JustGiving fundraiser has been set up to cover funeral costs, per DJ Mag.

What did she actually build with OuShe?

Ask anyone who books Ibiza and they will tell you the island's lineups have historically skewed heavily male. Oush's answer wasn't a hashtag, it was infrastructure: OuShe, a DJ platform and party series she founded specifically to put women behind the decks and in front of crowds, on the island's biggest floors rather than a side room. The project didn't stay a party series. In 2025 it became a radio show, the OuShe Radio Show on Ibiza Sonica Radio, and it grew past Ibiza into dates in London and Biarritz. That same year, Oush sat on an International Music Summit panel about women shaping the island's nightlife, the exact rooms where those bookings actually get decided.

"A tragic loss, Santanna Oush brought so much love and laughter to many of us.", Bushwacka

What happens to OuShe now?

That's the real open question, the one the tributes keep circling without quite naming it. A platform built around one founder's booking relationships and one founder's radio slot doesn't automatically survive her. What does survive, immediately, is the roster of women she put on those Ibiza stages and the door she held open at panels most DJs never get near. Whether OuShe keeps running as a living tribute or becomes a chapter other promoters point back to, the platform already did its job once: it put names on lineups that weren't there before.