Saya Gray will drop her debut album SAYA, on February 21, 2025 via Dirty Hit. Ahead of the LP’s arrival, the artist is sharing lead single, “SHELL ( OF A MAN ).” The track follows her previous release 19 MASTERS.

Saya shares “I move fast. Transition quick, hit change! My documentations have barely kept up… My mind & body caught up for this album. I had to calm down for this record. I had to document the clean up. Remnants as I move from places, people & patterns we only have ourselves at the end of it all!”

SAYA finally came after the dissolution of a troubled romantic entanglement; Gray booked a flight to Japan in the fall of 2023. And like a feel-good movie protagonist, Gray detangled herself from the outstanding psychic ties by journeying solo on a cross-country road trip. Moved by the vastness of albums by the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, as well as her Canadian folk forebear, Joni Mitchell, Gray kept an acoustic guitar in the passenger’s seat, just in case inspiration would strike.

Gray was born in Toronto, Canada, to a Japanese mother and Scottish-Canadian father. She first got her start playing in a house band at a Jamaican Pentecostal church; by 16, she was recruited for gigs at open mics, nightclubs and jazz festivals alongside adults. Soon, Gray began entertaining bigger offers to tour internationally as a bass player and musical director for Daniel Caesar and Willow Smith.

Saya Gray
SAYA Tracklist
Dirty Hit Records

01 ..THUS IS WHY ( I DON’T SPRING 4 LOVE)
02 SHELL ( OF A MAN )
03 LINE BACK 22
04 PUDDLE ( OF ME )
05 HOW LONG CAN YOU KEEP UP A LIE?
06 CATS CRADLE!
07 10 WAYS ( TO LOSE A CROWN )
08 H.B.W
09 EXHAUST THE TOPIC
10 LIE DOWN..

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