"A beautiful gem of a song".
Chris Hawkins, BBC 6 Music
"She has one of those voices that makes you feel like you’re engaged in a liberating experience".
Fatea Magazine
"Simply beautiful, I had to play it again and again.
Belles and Gals
A pianist, guitar player and a singer-songwriter, SERA (Sarah Zyborksa's solo stage name) makes music in English and Welsh and has 6 albums in her catalogue. Her music spans Americana, folk and pop.
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Having grown up in Caernarfon, North Wales, a place steeped in history, culture, between the Snowdonia Mountains and the Irish sea, you could understand her love of folklore and how landscape is a big source of inspiration behind her music. Her latest album, When I Wake Up, is a collection of songs inspired by anxiety, love, nostalgia, ancestry, witches, ships and lost worlds.
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SERA was selected as a BBC Horizons artist for 2019-2020, and played a live session in the legendary BBC Maida Vale studios.
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During 2020 SERA released Switch from her new album, which was playlisted on BBC Radio Wales. Her album was released at the end of August which was marked by a live stream album launch party.
SERA is also a part of Americana band TAPESTRI with Lowri Evans and folk duo EVE & SERA with Eve Goodman.
All music can be found on Spotify, from her first release way back in 2005 as Sarah Louise / Sarah Louise Owen with Sain Records and Folkal, through to the stage name change from 2014 to SERA and further releases on Folkstock and CEG Records.
Mae'r pianydd, chwaraewr gitâr a chanwr-gyfansoddwr, SERA (Sera Zyborska) wedi bod yn ysgrifennu, recordio a pherfformio yn Saesneg a Chymraeg ers tro. Dros yr ychydig flynyddoedd diwethaf mae SERA wedi treulio amser yn y stiwdio yn gweithio ac yn ysgrifennu gyda'r cynhyrchydd Andi Crutwell-Jones, gan edrych ar y straeon yr oedd hi am eu hadrodd gyda'r sain a oedd yn cyfateb i'w huchelgais. Y canlyniad oedd casgliad o ganeuon a ysbrydolwyd gan bryder, cariad, hiraeth, achau, gwrachod, llongau a bydoedd coll. Mae'r cyfan yno.
Cafodd ei fagu yng Nghaernarfon, lle sy'n llawn hanes, diwylliant, rhwng Mynyddoedd Eryri a'r môr Iwerddon. Fe allech chi ddeall ei chariad at lên gwerin a sut mae tirwedd yn ffynhonnell ysbrydoliaeth y tu ôl i'w cherddoriaeth.
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Dewiswyd SERA fel artist BBC Gorwelion ar gyfer 2019-2020, a chwaraeodd sesiwn fyw yn stiwdios chwedlonol BBC Maida Vale.
Yn ystod y flwyddyn hon bydd SERA hefyd yn rhyddhau caneuon o'i halbwm sydd i ddod yn haf 2020. Mae SERA hefyd yn rhan o'r band Americana newydd TAPESTRI gyda Lowri Evans a'r ddeuawd werin EVE & SERA gydag Eve Goodman.