“The world doesn’t need more women who traded their dreams for daydrinking on the back porch in suburbia. It needs more women who embraced the downsides of life, and alchemised them into superpowers. Wait, let me write a soundtrack for that!”
Oozing an untampered with authenticity and joie de vivre, WĪLMA LĀ is an alchemist of cross-cultural inspiration. Born in Lithuania, she always felt like an outsider, and claimed her true spirit to be American. Learning from the jazz giants since an early age, classical music studies and daily grind of a resident cover band in Dubai shaped the artist’s sonic diversity. WĪLMA LĀ rides across genres with great freedom and curiosity. Today her Retro-futuristic upbeat soundscapes and rich vocals are countered with neo soul piano vibes, native rhythms, and infused with subtle elements of sound healing.
Between her home studio on the Great Barrier Reef, various Byron Bay studios & Airlock in Brisbane, WĪLMA LĀ has solidified her direction as a lead producer on her third studio album STATE OF LOVE. This enlightened Rock’n’Roll time capsule is the artist’s expression of a breakup album that challenges the stereotypical themes. Celebrating the relationship that was, exploring love languages as frequencies, and transcending fear so we can love again are just a few highlights. Through this chapter the artist has developed a wellness oriented music space in her local community, featuring a series of meditation space collaborations and sound healing sessions in Yeppoon and on Great Keppel Island. The artist's yogic background also transpired in her recordings: blending sound healing instruments across 440Hz & 432Hz tuning is a philosophical statement that given enough love two different worlds can co-exist, and sound healing can take many shapes and forms. Fusing tribal sounds and songline concepts, jazz, industrial blues, meditative piano pieces and dance floor vibes, STATE OF LOVE came to be an eclectic masterpiece of sound design, memories made with many people, and a homecoming to Wilma's two biggest loves: timeless love songs and the ocean.
Previous work and a few fun facts:
“Fortune Frames Of Time” - EP (Dubai, 2012)
“Sin Fed Angel” - single (Dubai, 2012)
“Do We Dare” - single (Melbourne, 2015)
“Baby Fibonacci” - album (Byron Bay, 2021)
"State Of Love" - album (Byron Bay / Brisbane / Yeppoon, 2024)
Best compliment - “You don’t fit the algorithm”
Biggest brag - Eurovision national rounds finalist, 2015
Biggest fail - getting a sunstroke on stage at an event headlined by Elton John & Santana
Can’t leave untouched - airport pianos
Ultimate pet peeve - Shure SM58
Dream collaboration - P!nk
