Sam Divine

Sam Divine started out practising in her mum’s shed in Weston-super-Mare, won a DJ competition in Bristol, and was signed to Defected’s roster in 2009. Known as the First Lady of Defected, she has held Ibiza residencies at clubs including Ushuaïa, Amnesia and Eden, and was named Best House DJ at the 2024 DJ Awards.

Born Samantha Craddock, she began on the island warming up at Café Mambo after joining Defected, and has spent more than fifteen years as one of the label’s defining DJs, playing its parties around the world.

She recorded a two-hour BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix in September 2019, and in 2026 launched her own brand, 555, with her first Ibiza residency under her own name at Cova Santa. She played Social in 2022.