Tehya – Sorry For The Wait

Today, TEHYA releases her debut EP, sorry for the wait, via Neon Gold Records / Futures Music. Hailing from LA via Seattle, the 24-year-old Filipino-Native American singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist TEHYA created her debut with co-production from The Imports (Beyoncé, Will Linley), Aire Atlantica (SZA, Doechii), Cameron Hale (Khalid, Kiana Ledé) and Contradash.

TEHYA adds: “i sat on the idea of being an artist for years and spent a complete 365 days alone in my room learning how to record myself, and anyone who’s stuck with me from the beginning knows how long the wait has been. this EP reflects my own coming of age & how i’ve begun to find my footing in this industry and my life around it.“

And about “dust dog”, she states: “I was sent off by my label to a remote cabin to finish this EP. While we were there, we met a dog named “Gucci”. I was going thru arguably the worst type of break up and sort of analogized Gucci’s love of sunbathing in the dirt waiting around for his people to come home with my perspective of myself in that relationship.”

Earlier, she released the EP track “spoons for sweets” with an intimate music video.

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest in the crosshairs of her ancestral cultures; Cherokee, Filipino and Scotch-Irish, TEHYA was heavily influenced by music and took after her father, a local legend funk drummer, from a young age. After leaving home at 16, she found her community in Capitol Hill with some of the biggest names in the Seattle underground rap scene. It was here she picked up production via osmosis, sitting in on sessions and teaching herself Pro Tools and FL whenever a room was going spare. She is self-taught across the board – playing guitar, keys, drums, and writing 100% of her toplines and lyrics – a self-made DIY popstar unbound by genre and ready for the spotlight.

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