Filiah writes songs as if someone had turned on a bedside lamp in a dark room, awakening feelings you didn't even know you needed. Her songs are deeply personal, yet convey a quiet intimacy, like a conversation with a good old friend where shame never plays a role. “I want my songs to feel like a little home,” she says. “A place where you feel safe, understood, and secure, even if only for a moment.”

The Vienna-based singer-songwriter grew up in a small town surrounded by poetry and records by Joni Mitchell, Buena Vista Social Club, and David Bowie. She taught herself to play the guitar at an early age and realized that music was her best way to understand herself and the world around her. This foundation continues to shape her work today: intimate storytelling wrapped in catchy melodies and an impressive voice that can sound delicate and immediate one moment, powerful and uplifting the next.

After beginnings deeply rooted in singer-songwriter folk and a long, three-year hiatus, the EP “Sad Girl With A Punchline,” released in 2025 on Ink Music, was a visibly relieved cry of liberation. An extraordinarily bold pop concept by local standards, it neither shies away from nor denies its own past and origins. Lyrical, gentle yet strong, seemingly quiet yet self-confident; serious, yet always humorous. This is increasingly noticeable both at home and internationally, with her music being described as “stepping out of the shadows and enveloping you in light” or “pain as fuel for artfully woven stories.” Music and lyrics as catharsis and (self-)therapy, especially on stage.

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