Goodbye

LEILA belongs to a generation of artists who can no longer be pigeonholed – nor do they want to be. In a very short space of time, the Bern-based musician has built up a fanbase that extends beyond national borders, one that has not been formed through traditional channels.

LEILA’s music is characterised by movement. Between her birthplace of Bern, her roots in Sarajevo and her adopted home of New York, a sound emerges that deliberately defies clear categorisation. It can best be described as pop – though a form that doesn’t lose its edge.

Indie meets a raw, at times restless energy, and influences from the UK underground sit alongside moments that feel surprisingly direct. LEILA writes in English, exploring relationships, identity, queerness and growing up between cultures. The focus is not on clear-cut answers, but on states of being: uncertainties, changes and the feeling of finding oneself only to lose oneself again.