A doorman at Roma and Box/Cause Celebre nightclubs in Auckland in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was also spinning records as DJ Big Daddy by 1993 with a regular Sunday residency at Cause Celebre in 1994, having begun playing various parties around Auckland in 1989.
Soane hosted a daytime radio show on George FM for most of the 2000s
Tongan Chic was named after an earlier radio show on 95bFM