MKLA

The music collaborations of songwriter, producer and singer, MKLA, have ranged in sound exploring deep dark bass in “Save Me” with Vintage Culture and Adam K, to official electronic/dance covers, “Kids” with KSHMR and MGMT, “Losing My Religion” with Steve Aoki and GATTÜSO, and progressive house sounds in “Alive” with Zeds Dead. She cracked top 20 on Billboard Dance with Deep Inside of Me in 2020. In 2022 she is launching her first solo project.

Born in Toronto, MKLA spent her early years living in Bentonville, Arkansas with her family, where she was exposed to classical music and traditional folk. Around age ten, she sang in the school choir, and began playing violin. During high school, she discovered folk, emo, indie rock, nu-metal, alternative EDM, and played in an electric orchestra before moving back to Toronto to head to college.

In 2016, while a student at the University of Ontario College of Art and Design, MKLA first began recording at Grayson Matthews for commercial placements. She teamed up with Adam K and Andrew Polychronopolous to create her first two collaborations with Vintage Culture. In 2019 she began playing shows in Brazil and then later in Los Angeles, Red Rocks, Colorado, and Las Vegas.

By 2021, MKLA co-wrote Rezz and Dove Cameron’s “Taste of You”. Meanwhile, she has been building her first solo project, currently untitled, alongside working on a few EP collaborations with fellow artists including DVBBS, Banx & Ranx, and Zeds Dead.