Joyia

Joyia writes the song, sings it, produces it, then plays it. Most people pick one.

She’s a Toronto-born singer, songwriter, producer, and DJ. The music sits in indie house, UK house, and deep house — club records with a voice, and a point of view. She played her first show at The Guvernment in 2014 and spent the years after that getting further from home: Club Chinois in Ibiza, Sound Nightclub in LA, Playa Padre and Momento in Marbella, Factory Town for Miami Music Week. Acoustic one night. Straight DJ set the next. What people come back for is the hybrid — her vocal, her catalog, actually in the mix, not parked on top of someone else’s.

The catalog speaks for itself: 15.7 million Spotify streams, 124,000 monthly listeners, 47 Spotify and 25 Apple Music editorial placements, 187 Beatport DJ chart entries, and 119 supports on 1001Tracklists. “Remember” hit #4 Beatport Deep House. “Our Love” hit #4 Traxsource Afro House. The reels have pulled 8.2 million views.

Pete Tong, Nicky Romero, and Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike have had her on their shows. Black Coffee, BLOND:ISH, AYYBO, Gudfella, Ajna, and &friends have been playing the records. She’s cut tracks with ZHU, Pablo Fierro, Nico De Andrea, and Maxi Meraki, including ZHU’s “BURN,” featuring Joyia.

TO THE WORLD is her radio show and event series — started because her musical tastes were bigger than one genre, and waiting around for the right night felt like a waste of a good evening. New music is on the way, and she’s ready to make the dance floor move.