| Lochana Jayakodi. ලෝචනා ජයකොඩි. | |
| Birth Name: | Jayakodi Arachchilage Lochana Hansamali Jayakodi |
| Birth Date: | 24 September 1994 |
| Birth Place: | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Occupation: | YouTuber, Internet celebrity, model, television presenter |
| Website: | Lochi |
| Channel Name: | Lochi |
| Pseudonym: | Lochi |
| Years Active: | 2018–present |
| Nationality: | Sri Lankan |
| Subscribers: | 1,360,000 |
| Views: | 378,987,044 |
| Network: | None |
| Silver Button: | yes |
| Silver Year: | 2019 |
| Stats Update: | 28 January 2022 |
Jayakodi Arachchilage Lochana Hansamali Jayakodi (born 24 September 1994, Sinhala; Sinhalese: ලෝචනා ජයකොඩි), popularly known as Lochi, is a Sri Lankan Internet celebrity, YouTuber, dancer, model, actress and television presenter.[1] [2] Started her career in 2016 with the brand name Lochi,[3] she later became a popular figure in TikTok, YouTube, and other social media.[4] [5]
She was born on 24 September 1994 in Piliyandala, Colombo, Sri Lanka as the eldest child in a family.[6] Her father Kapila Susira Kumara is a male nurse at Apeksha Cancer Hospital, Maharagama. Her mother Indrani Arugamage was a housewife, who died in 2014 from a lung infection.[7] Lochana has two younger sisters: Dhanushika Madhushani and Rumesha Ushani. She completed her primary education at Piliyandala Junior School and later attended Dharmasena Attigala Girls School for Ordinary Levels. She completed A/Ls from Buddhist Girls College, Mount Lavinia.[8]
Before starting her social media career, Lochana worked as a dancer with a Certified Zumba Instructor Network (ZIN).[9] Following the YouTube videos of Lele Pons, she had the intentions to become a Sri Lankan internet celebrity. After the death of her mother, she started to join a dancing group where she continued to dance as a professional dancer for many popular dance troupes in Sri Lanka.[10]
Then in 2016, Lochana started her digital content creation with a TikTok account through the 'Musically app'.[11] Her first TikTok video was a dancing act along with one of her friends. In the meantime, she made two more dance acts and received good feedback from the followers.[12] Her first viral video was a Bollywood dance act. Later in 2018, she started to do comedy videos in TikTok.[13] Through her TikTok profile titled
Apart from digital content creation, she has acted in a stage play, when she was at the age of 12. Then she also acted in a television serial, still not telecast. Then in August 2018, she started to follow YouTube and released many comedy videos along with Kelum Devanarayana.[15] Lochana has also made several appearances in television commercials such as Signal, Lemon puff, Ritzbury bubbles, Munchee, and People's Bank. She also worked as a presenter for the television youth program 'Y-cafe' telecast on Sirasa TV.[16] Meanwhile, in 2021, she received a letter from parliamentarian Suren Raghavan by citing that he will help Lochana for her future endeavors.[17] In the same year 2021, she made her maiden television acting with the serial Race telecast on Siyatha TV, where she played the role "Randuli".[18] Currently she owned a 360 degree digital marketing agency "Lochi Studios pvt. Ltd.".[19]
By the end of May 2021, Lochi surpassed 452,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[20]