By Maya Palit
If you’re wondering what your old age will look like, here’s a riotous life to aspire to.
People have tracked down an 82-year-old woman who is living life to the fullest. Sumiko Iwamuro is based out of Tokyo, where she makes gyozas for a living in the day — a job she’s had for 60 years.
By night she is DJ Sumirock, an underground artist doing sets in warehouses and big clubs in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district in the evenings, and frequent visitors to her gigs say her energy rivals that of any of the young people present.
How does she juggle the madness of both these worlds? It’s a valid question, but Sumirock is completely nonchalant about it. She apparently stumbled upon her interest for DJ-ing when she selected the music at a birthday party for her son, and jumped that bandwagon by joining a DJ school to hone her skills.
We don’t know too much about Iwamuro, because although she’s been going viral on the internet recently, her answers have been cryptic. “When I spin the tables, I just want to match the beat, choose the right music, but the best thing is for my audience to enjoy themselves.” The only thing that we know for sure is that she hates being called a grandma, and we can believe that somehow.