Singer - songwriter and multi instrumentalist, ERIKA emerged from a life coloured by the musical corners of London and Japan. Crafting beautiful and innovative pop, the mood can switch from haunting to joyous and from hope to despair from verse to verse.
Her voice has also caught the attention of some established artists. She toured with MIKA as his backing singer, provided backing vocals, percussion and keyboards for Skunk Anansie on their recent European Tour (2017) and also recorded a guest vocal on two tracks with #1 UK artist, Bastille and Ella Eyre. ERIKA also likes to collaborate with designers and sound artists for the element of inter-activity in her live shows. She has collaborated with Avant-Garde Japanese designer, Kei Kagammi. The dress he made brought her ideas to light. The dress using YKK cosmolon Velcro would be designed every night by the crowd. With the finale being a belt that attached to one hundred and twenty people spanning ten metres, bringing the audience and artist, together, as one. She is currently working with sound artists Dr Kate Stone and Sam Topley using conductive materials and the latest technology getting the audience to play parts of her songs to make a really inclusive show. ERIKA is a DIY artist recently released her 2nd EP on her own label, part of the crowd funding community having completed two campaigns. 2016 ERIKA went on a living room/special venue tour booked by her fans and released a VR App made by some fans in Germany. "Looking around at the faces facing stageward for the duration of ERIKA’s set, I couldn’t spot a single distracted or daydreaming man or woman. ERIKA can emote like a classically-trained actor, dissolving the artist-audience boundary by living every moment with a complete lack of inhibition and dragging all onlookers into that space alongside her. Unlike those world-class actors, however, ERIKA’s performance is one hundred percent real." www.themusicalmeltingpot.com