Nilüfer Yanya

Bio

Nilüfer Yanya is a London-based singer-songwriter. Raised in a creative family, Yanya has always channelled her emotions and questions about life into music. Her first album Miss Universe and its 2022 follow-up Painless cemented her as one of the UK’s most interesting and thoughtful songwriters, lauded by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Since her debut, she has performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Later… with Jools Holland, and NPR’s Tiny Desk. She has opened for artists as varied as Adele, the xx, and Mitski, and sold out her own headlining shows across Europe, Australia, Japan, and the U.S. Her most recent album, My Method Actor, a close collaboration with producer Will Archer, landed on multiple publications’ best-of-the-year lists.