Music
Listen on Spotify
That’s the platform where most people seem to find me! But if it’s not your thing, I’ll link some alternatives below…
There are 3 tracks on most platforms, a live version of Ocean’s Daughter recorded at Cambridge Folk Club in 2024, plus my two 2025 studio releases This is Reality, and Sunflower. And my linktree always has up to date links for recent singles on multiple platforms!
I’m a singer-songwriter performing a set of thoughtful tunes around Cambridge, Saffron Walden and the occasional countryside bookshop. Plus the a good few festivals (Strawberry Fair 2023-4, Camp Bestival Dorset 2024 & Glastonbury’s Rumshack stage in 2025). I write to understand myself and soothe the big feelings, talking about disability, love, my friend’s cats, and anything else that drifts through my life. Songwriting was my friend growing up, and now it’s a way to connect with others. Sometimes that’s a scary adjustment to make, but it’s shaping up to be worth it, so I’m really glad you’re here.
I’m most often found on the short-form socials (Instagram & TikTok) but YouTube is home to both live recordings and This is Reality’s music video. Plus, you can download my tracks on Bandcamp if you click here!
My music has been compared to ‘90s indie pop, Suzanne Vega, and early Mitski. If you use Spotify and fancy a full list of comparisons, I made this playlist because I’m always fascinated by who I remind people of! Want to tell me who you think I sound like? My Instagram comment section is always open, or you could drop me an email and I’ll keep the playlist going!
What else can I say?
I wrote this page assuming people would come here from social media, or through already knowing me in some way. However, I’ve developed a habit of handing out business cards which link here, so this really could be one of your first conversations with me!
Firstly, you absolutely need to know how happy those business cards make me, I used to draw fake ones out on paper as a child, and collect real ones wherever I went (from my mum’s mechanic, to a holiday fish and chip shop). So passing on my own still makes my day. Though, since This is Reality came out, I’m also armed with stickers which add a bit of extra excitement (and are less strangely formal when making friends at open mics…)
Musically, I released my first single in March 2025. Kicking off with ‘This is Reality‘ felt like a fitting way to finish up all the years of dreaming about making it happen! TIR was followed by Sunflower in November of the same year, a sparkling retrospective on late-summer golden hours and the questionable dreams of our twenties. Both were supported with plays on BBC Introducing (Cambridgeshire & Essex), Cambridge Radio and Future Hits Radio, alongside blog features in Caveat London and Songs Behind the Music.
As for live performances, after playing around my local town on and off since 2019, I think 2023 was the year which kicked off a desire for more connections to my local music scene, and the world beyond. I played Strawberry Fair and Cambridge Pride’s art tent, spent a week songwriting with other under-25s at London’s Roundhouse and went into the colder season with the excitement of playing at Cambridge Folk Club, accompanied by my friend Ellie Beare on Cello for the first time. I often feel isolated in my music, which is the last thing I ever wanted, so those moments and people meant the world to me
Building on that theme, 2024 was a special one for me! I entered Cambridge Band Competition, not only winning “best acoustic act”, but also meeting new friends and collaborators (including talented photographers, Cambridge Radio presenters, and the band Parliament of Wolves… Featuring Francis Botcherby who recorded & produced both of my subsequent singles). As a result of the Best Acoustic Act win, I had the opportunity to play my first major festival that summer: Camp Bestival Dorset 2024.
That summer saw me attend Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Luton (working rather than performing as an artist!), volunteer on Glastonbury’s access team and start to record This is Reality.
So, 2025? Two single releases, one Glastonbury slot (thank you, Rumshack!) and radio plays from BBC Introducing to Suffolk Sound. I will return here at some point to fill out the details but since it’s all so recent you can probably catch up on my instagram for the moment!
Outside of music, I’m sludging through the day-to-day of chronic illness, being my emotional self (read; regularly bawling my eyes out at TV shows, songs or nice comments on the internet), listening to entire Muna and Grace Petrie albums in the morning before I can drag myself out of bed (everything hurts, music replaces some of the sensations). And if I’m done with that, I’ll be doting on the cats and rabbits, researching the origin or some intriguing turn of phrase, or quite possibly working my day job as a content assistant for Inkfire Studio.
I tend to pick up varied creative interests, so don’t be surprised if you notice me photographing a gig, blogging about my record collection or writing something approaching poetry from an underwhelming direction. (The above gallery features a few photos I’ve taken at gigs beyond my own) But there’s always something in music that brings everything together for me, and I can’t wait to share more of that with you. It’s a chance to be one of the many voices being honest about the quirks of this life we’re in, and perhaps having the honour of reminding a few people we’re less alone than we think. The way so many musicians and artists have done for me.
Bye for now (go stalk my Instagram, I spend too long on it!)
-Sakara <3
Buy tracks on Bandcamp
If you’d like to download and keep the singles I release you can buy them on Bandcamp! I’m yet to add physical merch on the site, but let me know what you’re interested in and I’ll see what I can do…
... Or watch on Youtube
You can have a scroll back on YouTube and find some old performances as well as recent moments! Here’s a performance of This is Reality from 2023 (see embedded video)!
