Sonia
Elisheva

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. Her gig history correspondingly swings from a sold out show at London's world-famous Pizza Express Live (with her 7 piece jazz band) to the Electro Swing night at Shoreditch's Book Club via The Troubadour! As an independent artist she previously earned herself features on several Spotify editorial playlists including: New Music Friday UK, Electro Swing and Jazz UK as well as radio support from BBC Introducing and 6Music. Releases followed on Berlin's Electro Swing Thing and with NZ producer <a href="spotify:artist:2bUYKdepfgDuZiRQJdvooU" data-name="Odd Chap">Odd Chap</a> before signing to Brighton label heard here: <a href="spotify:playlist:0qZRUQiNjhtIvPxmtPU9nF" data-name="This Is Freshly Squeezed">This Is Freshly Squeezed</a>. 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. "One of those full albums that require listening from start to finish to really appreciate."