MIREYA’s music is first and foremost about HOPE. She tells stories of love and heartbreak, growing up and looking back, acceptance and defiance, and living one’s life more presently. And at the core of it all is a flicker of light, reassuring her that there is always a way forward.

She also sings a lot about how it is to live in this world today. When technology has taken over our internal lives and inter-personal relationships. And when there are unreasonable expectations to be barely surviving as adults (especially as a woman in her mid to late 20s working abroad).

With each song, she and her brother (and main songwriter) Marco Samonte experiment with new sounds, drawing from new sources of inspiration. Luckily, MIREYA is a chameleon, adapting her voice to any genre, while still keeping it recognizably hers.

The two of them grew up to the music of pop maximalists Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne, Paramore, Beyonce, Adele, Taylor Swift, etc. Their music taste has not stayed stuck in the late 2000s-early 2010s, as they now obsess over Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Lana del Rey, Lorde, and Sabrina Carpenter too.

At the end of the day, MIREYA is a musician to her core. She grew up singing in the church choir and playing the Organ. She can do pop, jazz, rock, ballads, musical theater and classical music. And while it took her to her mid-20s before she was able to get her song produced, she had been writing her own lyrics and melodies since her early teens.

So if you are a pop music nerd, musician or lyricist who would like to hear from a rarely heard voice in the pop landscape (Filipina, mid-20s, living and working in Germany) and support a purely independent artist, MIREYA might be for you.