Loah is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of half-Irish, half-Sierra Leonean extraction. Across her solo career she has released 3 EPs of a hypermodern fusion genre she nicknamed “ArtSoul”.
Loah’s music spans a wide berth of great loves which include Irish folk music and literature, West African rhythms and guitar, the singer-songwriter balladeer tradition, US soul music and modern production, all woven with regular nods to her Kildare childhood playing fiddle and violin in Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and Youth Orchestras.
Being raised across Kildare and West Africa, Loah seeks to authentically marry all that she is with all that inspires her. This Heart (2017), Sweet Sorrow (2020) with Bantum and When I Rise Up (2021 - a work of 1920s poems she set to music) were all released to critical acclaim.
Now she is set to release her debut album Materia Medica, a culmination of her rich and varied influences and collaborations, featuring the likes of Eoin French (Talos), Niwel Tsumbu, Suntou Susso, Fehdah, and Crash Ensemble amongst others.
Loah has co-written and performed with such artists as Hozier, Rhiannon Giddens, the Wainwrights, Lisa Hannigan, Narolane, Kormac, Crash Ensemble, Paul Brady, and Cassandra Wilson, and also enjoys a successful career as an actor and presenter.
“The Irish Sierra Leonean singer is a unique talent, a magnetising performer and any time you see her sing, there’s a palpable sense of a musician on the rise..”
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