Ayla Nereo
Ayla Nereo is a voice for the planet, a modern bard and beacon who dances songs directly from her soul
With lyrical poetry splashing across a canvas of sound, her music has an uncanny ability to disarm and crack open the heart, as she sings for the depth of our humanness, and for the return to our pure wonder of existence. Her lucid storytelling and magical presence onstage and off creates a force field that is palpable, joyous, deep, and utterly enchanting.
Though you’d never know it by witnessing her perform, Ayla grew up with an intense fear of singing. In her final year of college, songs began pouring through her, and it was only through the constant urging of those around her that she began to slowly share her music. Propelled by the songs themselves, Ayla’s journey of meeting those fears and singing through them has grown her into the powerful performer she is today, touching an ever-widening global audience with the inspiring magic of her songs.
Ayla Nereo is a composer, singer, dancer, and multi-disciplinary artist whose songs evoke and crack open the heart, and whose performances are deep transmissions of inspiration. She has composed seven solo albums and has collaborated with talented artists in the music world, including The Polish Ambassador, Rising Appalachia, Trevor Hall, Mr Lif, and others. She is also one-fifth of the folk-supergroup Starling Arrow.With a particular joy for bridging musical styles, Ayla’s songs seem a genre unto their own, as she moves between vocal looping, produced beats, string arrangements, celtic melodies, disco rhythms, healing soundscapes, and even dashes of hip-hop wordplay. Ayla’s words are poetry, her songs an ode to the wonder of being human. And every performance is an invitation to the audience, to allow our radiance to shine, and to dive in to the exquisite and innately psychedelic dream of this moment.