Twelve months is not a lot of time to go from launching an alias to holding a residency at one of Ibiza's biggest rooms. SOLTO, the Afro House project of French producer Antoine Duthey, has done exactly that: the project surfaced in 2025 and is now booked into Ushuaïa Ibiza for the current 2026 season, with a full European run built around it.
How did SOLTO get here this fast?
The engine is one record. "Jamaican (Bam Bam)," SOLTO's debut collaboration with fellow French producer HUGEL, dropped November 7, 2025 on MoBlack Records and Make the Girls Dance. It reworks Sister Nancy's 1982 dancehall staple "Bam Bam" into a hypnotic, bass-heavy Afro House cut, and the numbers back up the residency booking: number one on Beatport's Afro House chart, number two on Beatport's overall ranking, and more than 100 million streams since release. Wikipedia's entry on the track adds regional number-one placements across Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Greece, Turkey and much of Latin America, plus platinum certification in France.
A single track carrying an entire booking calendar is not new in dance music, but the speed here is unusual for Afro House specifically, a subgenre that has mostly built momentum through slower-burning label and scene support rather than one viral chart-topper.
What's actually on the calendar?
According to We Rave You, SOLTO's summer 2026 run spans Paris, Budapest, Montreux, Saint-Tropez, Mallorca, stops across Italy and Portugal, Cyprus, Tunisia and Baku, on top of the Ushuaïa residency. A second single, "En La Mar," landed June 12, 2026, giving the project a second data point instead of relying on one hit. North American dates are described as in development, not yet confirmed, which matters: it is the difference between a European festival-circuit story and a genuinely global one.
Why does an Ushuaïa residency matter for Afro House?
Ushuaïa's poolside stage has historically been EDM and big-room house territory, the Guettas and Garrixes of the world. A dedicated Afro House residency there, built on a single that broke out of Latin America and the Caribbean diaspora rather than a European festival circuit, is a marker of where the genre's commercial ceiling now sits. It's one booking, not a trend on its own, but it's the kind of booking labels and agents watch when deciding where to place the next Afro House signing.
"The goal has always been to create music and experiences that bring people together. Every city, every crowd, and every performance has its own energy," SOLTO said, per We Rave You.
