London based singer & songwriter SONIA ELISHEVA combines the vernacular of her adopted city with the folk roots of her Eastern European heritage. Growing up with half her family from Ukraine & the other half in the British suburbs, she found herself with a foot in 2 cultures. Unsurprisingly her music brings together elements of all the above.

Sonia’s debut album BLACK SEA (2025) blends her Eastern European roots with these jazz and electro swing influences, creating a unique and highly personal LP. Pulling together the cultural strands from half-remembered gypsy melodies & mashing them with her adopted pop sensibilities, her songs explore themes of displacement, memory, home & identity, all filtered through a London street patter with trademark humour & irreverence.