who is Sarya?
a classic asian squat
sarya (she/they) is a Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter/poet based in Edinburgh and Taipei.
sarya’s music stems from the roots of spoken word and DIY music, using emotional lyrics to fuel her Nordic-cave inspired vocals. sarya likes to play with kitschy and electronic 8bit noises to make catchy and/or pessimistic songs about the worries of everyday life. Spanning across multiple genres and always keen for experimenting, sarya's music has been rising in popularity in 2020, with over 150,000 streams for her latest EP, "take care of yourself". With a steady presence in the Scottish indie scene, "i don't know where i'm going but that's okay" was featured on The Herald Scotland as the #1 song of new Scottish music of 2020.
“Sarya’s music is blunt-force lyricism meeting with cloudy, video game-inspired synth sonics.”
“...an irresistible cauldron of indie, electronica and folk sounds and the soaring high-pitched vocal melancholy...”
— Martin Williams, The Herald Scotland, Top 100 Tunes From Scotland in 2020
most recent SINGLE release:
“Her lyrics, honest, meaningful and sad were sung with a passion and hope that left the audience in a melancholic silence throughout the performance.”