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Saya Gray
Canadian musician (born 1995) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Saya Gray (born 1995) is a Canadian musician. She has four albums or EPs, starting with her debut in 2022.
Early life
Gray was born in 1995[1] and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,[2][3] growing up in the Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto.[4] Her mother is the founder of the Discovery Through the Arts music school in Toronto.[2][5] She is of Japanese-Canadian descent.[3][5][4] Her mother's family moved from Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan to Canada when her mother was ten years old.[4] Her father is a Scottish-Canadian[6] jazz trumpet player who studied at the Berklee College of Music.[2][5] Her brother, Lucian Gray, who plays the guitar, appears on her album 19 Masters.[5] She began playing the piano at a young age,[5][4][6] eventually deciding around the age of ten to play bass.[5]
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Musical career
Gray began playing music in a house band for a Jamaican Pentecostal church.[7] At the age of eighteen, Gray was a music teacher and a member of the Quincy Bullen Band.[8] After dropping out of high school in order to take night classes instead, she moved to London in the United Kingdom at the age of nineteen.[4] She worked as a touring bassist for over ten years prior to releasing music.[5] She previously played as a bassist in Canadian singer and songwriter Daniel Caesar's touring band.[2][3] She has also been a musical director for American singer Willow Smith[2] and a bassist for English singer and songwriter Liam Payne.[5]
In 2019, Gray began releasing original music.[3] Her debut album, 19 Masters, was released on 2 June 2022.[3][5] In 2023 and 2024, she released the dual extended plays QWERTY and QWERTY II.[4][9][10]
Her second album, Saya, was released on 21 February 2025.[2] The album was shortlisted for the 2025 Polaris Music Prize.[11]
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Personal life
Gray has lived in Toronto and the countries of Japan and the United Kingdom.[3][4] She was living in Tokyo as of March 2024.[4]
Discography
Albums
EPs
References
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