Aya Safiya is a vocalist, violinist, and multi-instrumentalist with a background in classical and traditional music from Western Europe, Greece, the Balkans, the Mediterranean, Japan, and Okinawa, and experience in Pop, Latin, and American old-time. Additionally she is a visual artist/illustrator and designs album artwork.

Aya was 15 when she first started performing as a musician, and has sinc...
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Aya Safiya is a vocalist, violinist, and multi-instrumentalist with a background in classical and traditional music from Western Europe, Greece, the Balkans, the Mediterranean, Japan, and Okinawa, and experience in Pop, Latin, and American old-time. Additionally she is a visual artist/illustrator and designs album artwork.

Aya was 15 when she first started performing as a musician, and has since gone on to perform at festivals in the US, South America, and Europe, as well as at venues such as The Great American Music Hall in SF, the Grand Prospect Hall in NYC, and the House of Blues in Boston. She has also taught classes in regional Greek violin and Greek/Balkan singing at community based music schools such as The Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, the Sierra Music and Arts Institute in Central California, and Apapachoa in Nicaragua. Her first EP “Aya Safiya,” released in 2018, was a transitional introduction to her electronic singer-songwriter career initiated after decades of working as a Greek/Mediterranean/Balkan-music singer and violinist. In July 2020 she released her 2nd EP, “My Other Half.” While the new EP is a continuation of her singer-songwriter project, through it she explores new grounds, incorporating her Japanese-American roots and writing all lyrics in Japanese.

Aya is available for livestream performances, studio recordings, lessons, and album artwork.
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