Based in Macedonia, a singer, songwriter, guitar, and piano player who three weeks ago released a music video that already has 664 THOUSAND views on YouTube. Her debut release was the feature of a premier in a prestigious UK music blog AND has been played on over 100 radio stations around the world. She has been recording new music with an eye toward releasing this year. Her music has been streamed nearly four million times on TikTok and the videos on her YouTube channel have gotten a combined total of more than one million views.
"My composer and producer... found me on Instagram... He's amazing, he's very well-known... He called me, he was like, 'I think you have something special. I want to work with you'."
"I'm coming from a very small country. You hear people say, like, from bigger countries, 'Oh my God, it's so hard to make it in this industry.' But, coming from where I'm coming is much, much harder, especially because we don't speak English as our native language."
"If I believe in myself first and I can find people that see the same vision as me and believe in me, I can accomplish anything. That's how easy it is. You just have to put your work to it. You have to work. You have to want it. And you have to go get it. Sometimes sacrifice is necessary for certain things."
"I want people to be inspired and follow their dreams despite where they're coming from. Nothing can get in front of your dream if you want it hard enough."
"We got the chance to go to the U.S. when I was five (years old)... We were living at Harlem, in Manhattan... I was introduced to different cultures, different ethnicities, from a very young age, and that's when I learned to accept everyone, despite what their color is, who they are, where they're coming from."
"I witnessed gospel choirs, which inspired me to this day... Then I got introduced to R&B soul... and I have a lot of influences in my music... If you can hear the melodies, you can see that I have a lot of R&B melodies because that's the only truth I know of myself and I want to project it through my music."
"If you don't have support, you can only go so far by yourself. At some point you're probably going to start doubting yourself."
"Naturally, I compose and write lyrics in English. I don't do it in my own language. Some people actually don't like me for it. But, I can't force myself to do something."
"I listened to gospel and R&B when I was very young. So, what I think happened was I tried to do everything they did, and somehow managed to learn something because I listened to pop, I listened to pop punk, so I absorbed a lot of things."
"If I'm composing a song, I like to put it on the piano because I can see all my keys, I can see everything and everything is just clear."
"I write music to air out my emotions and feelings and everything that's inside me because that's the only way I know how to express them."
"Music itself is beautiful and it will always be beautiful. Like, everybody can connect through music. But, like, the business aspect, I think that people are very interested in money and not as the music itself. And that really bothers me because not everyone has money."
"Why I love fitness and working out so much is because it requires the same self-discipline as music has."
"I Know"
"I Don't Know Your Name"