This wasn’t a trip — it felt like a calling.
Me and my best friend traveled through Egypt, not for resorts or tourist attractions, but for connection.
To learn from the differences we’ve been given and to grow through them.
We journeyed all the way south, near the border of Sudan, and then back up along the Nile.
Passing temples that were once built for devotion, prayer, and offering.
But what struck me most was the contrast.
Where these places were once sacred, I mostly saw people focused on capturing the moment… instead of truly being in it.
And somewhere in that, I felt it.
A calling.
To use my voice.
To sing — not as a performance, but as a prayer.
To give back what was given to me.
Maybe not to change people,
but to be a mirror.
To remind.
How beautiful would it be if we lived more in shared prayer?
Not only in sacred places, but in the way we breathe, speak, and create.
Maybe it doesn’t start with “the world”…
but simply, here.
Within ourselves. 🤍
I was feeling very sentimental 🥰 so enjoy here my version of Do 4 love version of Snoh Aalegra. Original : What you won't do for love - Bobby Caldwell.
Video shots by @sander_grunsven@bobbycaldwelllegacy@snohaalegra
'𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫' 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐖!!! Link in bio'
This was an amazing collab with my brother @chevva_official
This song is already 2 years old, at that time it had been a long road to feel like myself again.
I used to hold back feelings, not wanting to share the raw truth with the world. But over time, I’ve learned that being open doesn’t make you weak. It just makes you real. And that is what this song captures for me. Raw real human emotions like desire, longing, reminding us that we should be grateful for the lows in life, cause they are a part of us and shape us to who we are meant to be.
Video : @sander_grunsven
Production: @chevva_official
Last week I was invited to sing at the reopening of @mahara.love it was a heart warming experienc and enjoyed the dilicious cacao provided by @purekakaw . Grateful to know places like this exist, where time dissapears and people gather.
This is a part of a melody that comes from a georgian folk song, passed orally from generation to generation. I have never touched the soil of Georgia, though it is the land my mother was born from. The closest I ever came was through a small Georgian church where I was baptized — a place I still feel called to go back to.
Then I learned “Gelino.”
I heard the melody in different voices, different arrangements, different songs, as if it had been traveling through generations long before me. And somehow, through that song, I felt connected to the mountains, the people, and the Black Sea I have never seen with my own eyes.
It reminded me that sometimes a homeland can live inside you before you ever arrive there. Connected trought the astral, rooted deep within.
The song “Gelino” means “bride” or “young bride” in Georgian. The song is a traditional folk melody from Adjara, in western Georgia, and speaks of love, longing, devotion, and the quiet hardships of life. Like many Georgian folk songs, it has been passed down through generations, changing slightly with every voice that sings it.
Do you believe in coincedences ? 🤍 Right after @otion11 blessing us with his beautiful voice, and before a heart opening, and remembering concert of @lubiana_k I was spontaneously invited to sing. Such a gift to sing, and improvise to such a beautiful crowd, in such a holy space! I feel so grateful and I will be back soon with a full set of songs. Thanks to @cacaositonl for hosting these beautiful wholesome events.
My debuut Album 'The Rising Sun' OUT NOW!
What a journey this has been.
This project is so much more than music to me.
It taught me how to truly work together, how to bring a vision to life, and how to fully own who I am — in all my colors.
The light and the dark. The pain, the anger, the joy, happiness and the fulfillment.
It showed me how to use my voice, what I want to share with the world, and what it means to lead that vision — while holding myself and the people around me, even when everything feels like it might fall apart.
Because somehow…
there is so much beauty born in the messy, difficult struggles we go through as human beings.
This process wasn’t easy.
But I’m deeply grateful that I get to do this — and excited for everything that’s still to come.
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I want to thank my brother @chevva_official for co - producing this album with me.
My best friend @gabriela.creatives for the visuals and cover art — capturing a side of me that was shaped through our journey together.
To my band:
@abigael.ama (backing vocals)
@ananyaari (keybass, bass & guitar)
@euanjjenkins (drums)
@9.mael.9 (keys)
@chevva_official (backing vocals & percussion)
Thank you for bringing this to life with me.
To my mom, for always believing in me.
And my dad, for being present.
And to everyone else who was part of this journey —
@_quanza (guitar on Stubborn), @ananyaari for playing bass on 'Stubborn'.
@askoskarbilly (sound engineering),
@lemodo_official for procucing 'Ayé' @chevva_official for co-producing Ayé, and sining back in vocals in 'Lift me Slightly', 'Open wide', 'Rise' and Ayé.
Cody Ferreira (mastering) — thank you.
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The Rising Sun — out now
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