Tara Lily

Growing up in Peckham as part of a British Bengali family has given Tara Lily a unique perspective on music and global culture. She has spent her life absorbing a multitude of sounds and genres from her surroundings, ranging from electronica to jazz and RnB to traditional Bengali folk music. From training at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music, where she studied jazz piano and voice, to learning Indian classical music. It was this intriguing blend of sounds and her deep understanding of the worlds they come from which caught the attention of the likes of Virgil Abloh, Gilles Peterson, Iggy Pop, Jamie Cullum and Motown Records UK, who signed Tara as their first British artist. Tara is a musical anomaly. South London, British-Bengali musician Tara Lily’s debut album, 'Speak In The Dark', is a record about “things that go unsaid—secrets, desires and our connection to our ancestors.” Transgressing jazz, electronica, trip-hop, and alternative R&B with traditional Indian sounds, ‘Speak In The Dark’ is an artistic representation of Tara’s emotional highs and lows with ADHD. A formidable talent who celebrates strength and power in her music, 2024 marks the start of this new chapter for the rising star, following up her acclaimed EPs ‘Last Flight Out’ and ‘Lost in London’ on Motown UK.