Alicia Clara is a Swiss-Canadian singer-songwriter based in Montreal. Launching her music career during the strange, suspended time of the pandemic, Clara released her first two EPs, Outsider/Unusual and Velveteen, in a world where connections were forged almost entirely online.

This unmoored beginning shaped her artistry, embedding a sometimes unsettling duality in her upcoming 2025 debut album: the longing for connection followed by a deep embrace of solitude. This tension between Clara’s internal and external worlds anchors her recent work both sonically and lyrically. Her songwriting captures this delicate push and pull, weaving themes of transformation and disconnection through vivid, dreamlike imagery.

With velvety vocals often compared to the likes of Hope Sandoval, Clara’s past two EPs have won acclaim from CBC, Exclaim!, Le Devoir, have charted !earshot and Bandcamp’s Best Selling Albums in Indie Pop, and led her to perform at festivals such as SXSW and the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.