INDIYA

“Always exciting…”, “A great storyteller…” BBC Introducing

“We love having INDIYA sing for us as she brings a brilliant atmosphere into the space, drawing more people in with the ability to make familiar songs feel fresh and exciting. INDIYA is a natural at connecting with listeners and it is always a pleasure to have her with us!”

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My parents always say I ran before I walked and that I sang before I talked.

They're right. I’ve been singing as long as I can remember, from musicals with my ducks in the bath to releasing my first EP and hearing my songs being played on the radio. My music comes from my heart - it is quite literally a manifestation of who I am. I write as a way to say the words that are too difficult for me to express without crying, screaming and throwing up. Music helps me understand myself.

I have always been a bit, (ok a lot!), of a drama queen. Around 10 I started acting. Having opportunities to be part of the amazing creativity of UK Indie film, I’ll forever be grateful for those magical experiences (but don’t be fooled by the glamour - there’s more hard work than you think lol). While I’m fond of those times, I’m so excited to write my own story now with my music instead of playing someone else's characters on screen. I write music for my fellow teenagers and for people who used to be teenagers, I write songs for anyone who’s ever been in love - or wanted to be. I hope you find a piece of yourself in my music, because I know I found a massive chunk of myself in it.

INDIYA - new music

MUSE

I've talked about it in a couple songs before, that love is like an all-consuming disease. MUSE is truly an embodiment of this. When I wrote this song it was like the craziness in my head was spilling out on the page, that intense crush-like feeling needed an outlet.
I'm almost ashamed to say sweaty teenage boys have inspired some of my best songs; and yet here we are - love really does inspire art.

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It’s ok to not be okay (feat. Scrulove)

I wrote this song when I realised that I wasn’t okay but I was still here. I’m never going to magically be “okay”, most of us aren’t, but I can either focus on the negative or accept how I feel but make the most of it. I think it’s so easy sometimes to only see the rain clouds rather than the rainbow that’s peeking through. Life can be rubbish, it often is, but we’re all still here trying our best and sometimes you have to accept that it’s ok to not be okay.

It started life as a little 2 min 20 song but then I was lucky enough to be introduced to an amazing artist called Scrulove. I played him the original and he immediately connected with it, got what the song was about and was happy to jump on and I just love where that took the track. Check out his own music on Spotify too. Insanely talented!

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Pretty girls don't cry

(Happy birthday to me)

I remember when I started writing this song I was 13 and had this idea in my head that the “pretty” girls had it all sussed out. I wrote the lyric “can I be forever 15” because I was scared of growing up and what it meant, and now, here I am about to turn 17, probably just as scared of the world ahead of me, and having come to the realisation that even pretty girls cry.

I'm releasing this song on my 17th birthday.

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Say what you want

I’m guessing at some point you’ve had that manic feeling of crushing on someone - I know I have. I’ll read into every little thing that happens and go mad with second guessing.

Love is a disease and a strong one at that, one that makes you absolutely crazy in my experience. And I think it took me a while to realise that this all consuming brain rot we call a crush isn’t something I should be ashamed of but rather something I should be shameless about.

So next time we’re all feeling embarrassed about those giddy sensations, let’s remember we can just “say what you want” because being a love crazed fool is fun.

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That girl

“That girl” - how would I summarise it? If you asked me surface level I'd say it’s a song about not truly loving what you see in the mirror. If you asked me on a deeper note I’d say I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to exactly sum up the passionate self loathing and loving I hold towards my warped, and forever changing perception of myself, and so I wrote a bittersweet song about a bittersweet girl who’ll never quite be able to accept herself.

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