“Yellow House” occupies that tense space between beauty and trauma.
“It’s about the anger I carried, the fear I lived with and the strength I had to build for myself when no one else could do it for me,” says Satya of the new single. “You have to believe you deserve something better, even when you don’t fully know what you’re letting go of—or what ‘better’ looks like for yourself.”
Satya’s effortless balance of soul/R&B textures and singer/songwriter intimacy feels about as natural as breathing. And other artists have taken notice, landing her on bills with Macy Gray, Madison McFerrin, Masego and Jason Isbell. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she studied vocal music at Oakland School Of The Arts, leaving home under some fairly extreme circumstances.
“Pretty memories and painful ones live in the same place,” she says. “Wooden floors. Lemon trees. Lying face down. Being asked to fake a smile when you don’t want to.”
The album’s emotional and thematic anchor, “Yellow House” began as a voice memo in 2020.
“It’s something I forgot about until I found it again years later,” says Satya. “The song pays homage to both the warmth and the damage of growing up—and allowing yourself to look at it in an honest way. It’s about acknowledging the ugly parts, trusting intuition and learning to hold your own hand through it.”
We’re proud to premier Satya’s “Yellow House.” Look for her debut LP later this year.
—Hobart Rowland
