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EYAS

Producer | Composer | Songwriter
Alt Indie Soul



BIOGRAPHY

Jenna Balderson (Eyas) is a Filipina musician/producer from Baltimore, MD. Her voice, like her production, is layered, textured, and transcendent, inspired by a wide array of music blending indie-pop, jazz, RnB, and folk. She’s featured on tracks by JPEGMAFIA, notcharles, and more.

Eyas’ debut EP ‘Quiet-loud’ out November 22nd can be described as an expansive and lush 6-track record produced alongside 4AD’s Bartees Strange. Jenna and Bartees achieved a record that is truly captivating and restless, sloping between tempos and styles. Aptly named ‘Quiet-loud’. Each song ebbs and flows, one minute possessing the energy and pulse of an underground club at 2am, the next song whispering and sleepy in bed. Her vocal stylings span genres, from freeform melodic 90's r&b, to fizzy dream pop, akin to artists like Melody’s Echo Chamber or Broadcast. Jenna layers sweet, breathy vocals, atop uplifting and sometimes frantic beats, undulating between energetic and peaceful. Her opening song and lead single “Phaded” is about being put on a pedestal and not being able to live up to someone else’s obsessive expectations of you  


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“Both songs find her making delicate, airy indie folk, and the former breaks out into a glitchy, Radiohead-esque jam with some help from Dr. Dog drummer Eric Slick.“ 
- Brooklyn Vegan

“The audience was awed as singer Eyas sat before them with a keyboard and guitar, her vocals flush with pure emotion.”  
- Baltimore Beat


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