London/Berlin/Athens
Greek-British electronic producer, singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist Aphty Khéa, innovatively blends warm, blissful, driving electronica with soulful melodies and captivating vocal harmonies. Supported on Radio 1 by Jamz Supernova on and Jaguar on BBC Introducing Dance, their latest EP 'Salt & Copper' received a warm welcome, with further features included on 6 Music with Lauren Laverne, DJ Mag, Mixmag, Beatport and KALTBLUT Magazine.
Lyrically, Aphty bears tales of vulnerability with poetic messages, touching on subjects of queerness, gender identity, social anxiety, death, existentialism, sex, menstruation and radical self love. Using a mixture of chopped, pasted and edited samples, they surgically dissect every sound they make including synths, piano, percussion, whilst sampling every single vocal style that exists is their voice. Moving between Berlin, London and Athens, Aphty Khéa builds a hard-hitting visual sound world, offering through their music videos a glimpse into their imagined sonic dreamland.
With a musical background that spans choir from the age of six, studying classical singing and piano at school, winning junior Eurovision in Greece, then swapping their home country for London at 18 to study contemporary singing and vocals at the ICMP Music Institute, and finally a BA degree in songwriting. Beyond composing, performing and producing their music Aphty, has participated in the radical left scenes of Greece, France and Germany standing in solidarity for dignified living in the LGBTQIA+, anti-capitalist, antiracist, antifascist and antisexist scenes.
"She literally stopped me in my tracks" - Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music
"She hushed the room to awed silence and even at one point appeared to play a Theremin with her head." - MOJO Magazine
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