"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.
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.
SERA was selected as a BBC Horizons artist for 2019-2020, and played a live session in the legendary BBC Maida Vale studios.
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.
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.