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Finding aleksiah: Meet the rising Australian artist captivating fans with her music

Get to know Australian singer-songwriter aleksiah. 

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Lance Paolo Lim

<p>In Australia, Adelaide-based aleksiah has been gaining legions of fans. In fact, she’s one of the promising artists in Australia right now — and one that is on the radar of music fans even outside the land down under. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CuMFxHeSoJS/"></a></p><div><br/></div><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-0" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/CuMFxHeSoJS/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=485&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A175919.90000003576%2C%22ls%22%3A175597.69999998808%2C%22le%22%3A175812.5%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="727" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-0" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><p>While aleksiah was raised in the relatively smaller city of Adelaide compared to Sydney or Melbourne, that didn’t stop her from pursuing music. </p><p>Her passion for music began at an early age when she was attending church where she used to sing. While she admitted that her grandma initially forced her into singing, she said she ended up liking it.</p><p><strong>“</strong>I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia which is right down the bottom and most people do forget about us. I grew up in the western suburbs of Australia which is–I was always surrounded by my family. I&#x27;m a very big family. I&#x27;m half Greek half Italian and I grew up singing in church. That was the first time I really started to sing because my grandma forced me to against my will. Luckily, it ended up going well for me because I found that that I really like to sing,” she said. </p><p>However, it wasn’t until she started encountering poetry when she realized that she could actually write her own music. </p><p>“I always knew I liked to sing but I never knew I liked to write songs,” she said. “I was a bit nerdy in school and I really loved English. I was like really obsessed with English literature and writing poems and poetry. I was obsessed and I was like oh wait poetry, music, that&#x27;s songwriting, right? So, I started doing that,” she said. </p><p>Like most artists, aleksiah also struggled to find her own sound with all the artists she grew up listening to. While she grew with artists like Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and other foreign <em>biriteras</em>, she knew she had to find her own, authentic sound. And thankfully, she did. </p><p>“It was hard for me to work out what kind of music I like. I grew up very like listening to Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston and like Céline Dion, the Divas, that&#x27;s what my mom made me listen to. But that wasn&#x27;t necessarily the music that I love to, that I love to listen to and write so I always wanted to sing you know these massive power ballads go crazy with the vocals and do all the runs and stuff. But I didn&#x27;t necessarily love writing those types of songs so I kind of fused them together and started making up my own genre. And I was like singing at school and stuff,” she remarked. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CuAt_a5yagF/"></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CuAt_a5yagF/"></a></p><div><br/></div><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-2" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/CuAt_a5yagF/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=485&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A2%2C%22os%22%3A203989.80000001192%2C%22ls%22%3A175597.69999998808%2C%22le%22%3A175812.5%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="722" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-2" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><p>But more than finding her own sound, aleksiah had to deal with all the negative comments about her physical appearance, especially ones concerning her weight. </p><p>“It messed me up like really badly so I completely stopped showing anybody my music until literally last year I stopped showing anybody because I was like, ‘I’m just gonna get there, just gonna comment on my weight again, they&#x27;re gonna comment on my pimples, my body hair, they&#x27;re gonna comment on my braces.’ Something like that so I just shut off myself to the world and I kept singing and writing my own stuff in private, [just] never showed anybody,” she said. </p><p>aleksiah isn’t afraid to become vulnerable, opening up about what she had to go through including going to and from the hospital and taking some time off of school. Of course, it she got through it and eventually found her way to love herself. <strong></strong></p><p><strong>“</strong>Well, I was 14 so you know you lose the puppy fat and you know you go through puberty and stuff but I did have quite a bad eating disorder that I&#x27;ve I&#x27;m very grateful to have overcome now. But when I from the age of like 16 to 21, it was a rough battle. I was in the hospital a couple of times. I had to take some time off school. I did really horrible things that this you know mental illness is just sort of made me do.</p><p>“I hid them from my family and friends, and I never really understood them before the age of 14 before that person said those things to me. I never understood that there was a bad way to look, that there were negative connotations with any body type. I just thought like that&#x27;s your body nothing bad or good about it it&#x27;s just like there you know but I think I&#x27;m back to that point now where I&#x27;m like I can respect my body,” she said. </p><p>She went on to share how her experiences taught her a lot of things, sending a compelling message to aspiring artists to pursue their passion for music regardless of what people have to say about their physical appearance. </p><p>“I can understand that my body is not going to look like what I was when I was 16 when I was starving myself [and] when I wasn&#x27;t eating. And I lost my hair, I lost my period, and I can see that like I&#x27;m a woman now. I just turned 23. I&#x27;m not gonna look that same way and I think that&#x27;s a good thing, I think that&#x27;s you know, that&#x27;s part of growing up and I can love my body and not want to change myself in any way and feel comfortable in my own skin. So, it&#x27;s taken a long road it was you know five years.  I wrote a lot of songs about that but I don&#x27;t regret it. It taught me a lot of things that made me grow as a person but yeah,” she stated. </p><div><br/></div><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-4" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/CqpSs7CShqq/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=485&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A4%2C%22os%22%3A230816.60000002384%2C%22ls%22%3A175597.69999998808%2C%22le%22%3A175812.5%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="855" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-4" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><p>While she grew up in Australia, she is actually of Greek and Italian descent. The great thing is that the mix of cultures allowed her to explore her musicality in many ways. </p><p>“Greek and Italian culture is so similar. I don&#x27;t care what anyone says it&#x27;s like two sides of the same coin — both very loud, very you know, family-oriented. Like my [Nona] heavily influenced me. She used to play old Italian songs around the house all the time whenever I&#x27;d go visit her and just like the culture itself is very musical. Music’s always playing, same with Greek culture, music is always playing dance like there&#x27;s a massive dance culture as well. It&#x27;s a very artistic culture and I think that definitely influenced me to actually pursue this in the first place,” she said. </p><p>Her parents have also been very supportive of her decision to pursue her music. </p><p>“My parents, they were very, very surprisingly like ‘go for the music.’ Normally, Italian [and] Greek parents [go for] doctor, lawyer, scientists. Those are the three jobs you get. But my parents really supported me and were like ‘You need to be doing this. You should do this please do this,.’ So I was very supported when it comes to music in my family I think,” she said. </p><p>aleksiah didn’t have to go through her struggles alone as she had her boyfriend around to motivate her to share her songs through the popular social media platform TikTok. True enough, it was only a matter of time before someone discovered her music and convinced her to put out her music. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CuB0CSqv0Jq/"></a></p><div><br/></div><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-6" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuB0CSqv0Jq/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=485&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A6%2C%22os%22%3A268490.1999999881%2C%22ls%22%3A175597.69999998808%2C%22le%22%3A175812.5%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="856" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-6" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><p>“My boyfriend, last year, convinced me. He&#x27;s like, ‘Start posting on TikTok, start posting on TikTok.’ And I&#x27;m like, ‘No, no, no, no, I don&#x27;t want to do that I don&#x27;t want to show anyone.’ He was like, ‘Please just start. Please, please, please.’ He convinced me and that&#x27;s how everything happened. Someone found me on TikTok and then convinced me to release my first song,” she said. </p><p>While she had apprehensions in the beginning, she eventually said yes to it. </p><p>“I was very, very hesitant because I didn&#x27;t think anyone would actually really like it. I&#x27;d never thought about anyone hearing it in the first place. So, that gave me like a lot of anxiety but I did pull it [off] and I did it and now things are going really good, and people like the music and I&#x27;m really really happy that I took that jump but it&#x27;s been a wild ride,” she said. </p><p>aleksiah also talked about her success as an artist, which she described as “insane,” considering she has only been around for a short time. </p><p>“It&#x27;s nuts. Like there&#x27;s no other word for it except insane. It&#x27;s coming from a place where when I released ‘Fern,’ the first song I did not expect anything. I really just expected to put it out there no one give a s** to be completely honest just to go on about my life when these people, like a couple of people from Australia contacted me and convinced me to put this song out. I kind of thought they were like pulling my leg, they were yanking my leg a bit like, they were like trying to trick me or something. I didn&#x27;t actually think anyone thought I was good enough. But it&#x27;s just been really heartwarming and I felt very grateful and very blessed. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUVya1ANypk"></a></p><div><iframe width="1271" height="715" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bUVya1ANypk" title="aleksiah - Fern (Music Video)" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><p>“The fact that people listen to my music and like they&#x27;ll send me messages and every single message that I&#x27;ve got sent about any of like ‘Fern’ or ‘Ant Song,’ I read them all. I replied to them all because it literally means so much to me because it proves to my 14-year-old self that even if I look this way if I cut all my hair off if I gain weight, if I lose weight, pimples on my face, glasses anything people don&#x27;t give a s**t about that,” she added. </p><p>“People only care about the music. You don&#x27;t have to see what I look like to understand what I&#x27;m trying to say and the fact that people get that now and like it&#x27;s not about the way I look that&#x27;s like really that&#x27;s made me feel very special. I feel like it&#x27;s made me feel very blessed and very special so feels really good,” she continued. </p><p>Following the success of her song “Fern”, aleksiah came out with brand new music about her boyfriend of two-and-a-half years named Anthony. The song is called “Ant Song,” which, unlike her previous song, is more mature and passionate. </p><div><iframe width="956" height="715" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tur0As0FWZw" title="aleksiah - Ant Song (Lyric Video)" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><p>“It&#x27;s not that kind of puppy love, it&#x27;s adult, it&#x27;s serious, it&#x27;s passionate, it&#x27;s a bit more grounded, it&#x27;s like real life, no not puppy love, you know what I mean? So I feel I tried to make the production in that song feel grounded. Like it has roots, really passionate. Like it&#x27;s a strong love, it&#x27;s a love that&#x27;s never going to die kind of thing. And like you know it&#x27;s like ‘Fern’ is like the first one you feel a crush on or you have a crush on someone and ‘Ant Song’ is like your first real love. It&#x27;s like those two different moments, do you know what I mean? One is very silly, goofy kind of like that kind of thing like giddy and the other one is love, it&#x27;s passion. It’s,  you know, unconditional adoration for somebody, So, it&#x27;s like 2 stages of love I guess,” she said.</p>

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