Singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist keiyaA synthesizes her jazz training, R&B sensibilities, and hip-hop upbringing to create new soul sounds inundated with her powerful, sultry voice and dense lyricism.
In anticipation to her show at Le Guess Who? 2025, curated by Lonnie Holley, tune into keiyaA's new track stupid prizes. After her 2020 debut Forever, Ya Girl, the artist returns reinvented, with a lulling reverie layered with looped harmonies – part memoir, part commentary on what it means to be a marginalized person in America. The long anticipated new single is out today via XL Records, together with a music video co-directed with Caity Arthur.
The singer and producer's nu-soul landscape soundtracks stories of loneliness and self-empowerment, as the author centres the perspective and intellect of the Black woman in the late-stage capitalist world. keiyaA’s soulful and subdued vocal melodies flow over homespun productions: grainy samples and lo-fi beats meet vibrant, dissonant electronic textures. Her deeply personal style doesn’t hold back, outlining grimy metropolitan atmospheres that are emotionally resonant and alive.
keiyaA performs at Le Guess Who? 2025 on Friday 7 November. Also performing at the festival are a.o. Alpha Maid, Semiratruth, Lido Pimienta, and more.
