Alysha Brilla

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Alysha Brilla
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Brilla in 2022
Background information
Born (1988-11-03) November 3, 1988 (age 35)
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Origin Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • record producer
Instrument(s)
  • Guitar
  • piano
  • drums
LabelsSunny Jam
Website alyshabrilla.com

Alysha Brilla is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and music producer. Brilla's music career includes performances at WOMAD, Woodford Folk Festival and Montreal Jazz Festival. Her music focuses on themes of connection and healing. Born in Mississauga, Ontario and raised in Brampton, Ontario, she started singing in her early teens in local bands and at festivals. In 2010, she signed a major record deal at Lava Records/Universal Republic. [1] Brilla has since released all of her music independently on her own music label, Sunny Jam Records. Brilla has received three Juno Award nominations for her self-produced albums.

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Early life

Brilla was born in Mississauga, Ontario to a European-Canadian mother and an Indo-Tanzanian father of Khoja descent. Growing up in a mixed-race, mixed-religious household fostered dialectical discussions around race, religion, value systems and ideals. Brilla's father played guitar while growing up in Tanzania and her mother was an avid storyteller. Brilla experienced bullying in middle school and she cites music and nature as her coping mechanism.

She dropped out of school and on her 14th birthday, Brilla was given her father's acoustic guitar and she began teaching herself to play. After returning to and eventually graduating high school, she moved to Toronto. During this time, she was recording and producing her own songs and released an eleven-song EP called Got Soul. Her friend Brad Marshall introduced her to Jacksoul keyboardist and producer Ron Lopata and the two began to demo some of Brilla's songs with a band.

She composed music for Fawzia Mirza's 2023 film The Queen of My Dreams .

Awards and honours

Studio albums

YearAlbum
2012Brilla
2013In My Head
2014Woman
2016Human
2017Rooted
2022Circle

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