finding my voice

I started writing songs at the age of thirteen. Back then, I spent a lot of time listening to pop-punk bands such as Paramore, City and Colour, and Disco Ensemble while secretly filling notebooks with poetry and diary entries in German. Looking back, I think songwriting became a way for me to express emotions I often struggled to communicate openly. I was always very sensitive, very emotional, and at times felt like I was both too much and not enough at the same time. Music gave these feelings a place to exist.

Later in the 2010s, artists like Florence + The Machine and Lana Del Rey introduced me to a different kind of storytelling: one that felt melancholic, dramatic, and deeply honest. With my first band project, COMODO, we combined this emotional style of singing with future bass and electronic influences. Still, it wasn’t until I moved to Berlin in 2018 that I truly began to find my own artistic voice.

Growing up in Trier, Germany’s oldest city, I often felt caught between different worlds. In Berlin, I not only discovered electronic music culture, indie music scenes, and creative communities, but also a large and diverse Asian community for the first time in my life. Being surrounded by people who openly turned loneliness, heartbreak, identity struggles, and longing into art deeply changed me.

Today, my music exists somewhere between intimacy and escapism. The melancholic storytelling of my early influences still remains, but now lives within dark atmospheric soundscapes, immersive electronica, and vulnerable yet powerful vocals. I describe this sound as Ethereal Bass Pop: music that feels both deeply personal and larger than life at the same time.

photo: Nicole Krüger (c)