In 7th grade, Aliyah got kicked out of band, not for a lack of talent, but because of a burnt out teacher on a power trip. Instead of giving up and walking away, she started asking a question that would shape everything that followed: if a negative experience could impact a person’s relationship with music so profoundly, what could a positive one do? She’s been exploring that question ever since.

What emerged from that curiosity is an artist who refuses to be put in a box. A singer, French hornist, composer, and producer, Aliyah is a collaborator at heart who moves fluidly across creative disciplines, drawing from everything she encounters and experiences. She blends genres into a sound that defies easy categorization, rooted in funk and soul, but reaching well beyond them. Her music is built on a belief that art should pose questions, start conversations, and help us understand one another more deeply. It is, in every sense, unconventional, and deliberately so.

Aliyah has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia, and has spent years advocating for equity and inclusion in the arts, creating spaces that ensure more voices get heard on stage, behind the scenes, and everywhere in between. Equally committed to the next generation, she is deeply invested in mentorship and education, with a belief that access to transformative creative experiences are something every person deserves.

At the core of everything Aliyah does is a simple but radical belief: artistic expression is a two-way conversation. Between artist and audience, between tradition and innovation, between the personal and the universal. She doesn't make music to be heard so much as to be felt, questioned, and carried. Whether she's at home in NYC, on a stage in Amsterdam, at a festival in Montréal, or in the studio at 2am, that's what she's reaching for. Her sophomore record CONVERGENCE arrives in 2026.