BIOGRAPHY

Traka is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from the UK, writing, producing and performing his own music from his bedroom. He plays a range of instruments across his recordings and has an interest in pushing himself across different genres — having written everything from pop and rock to nu-metal, drum and bass and reggae over the years. His main influences include Linkin Park, Deftones, Sleep Token, Led Zeppelin, John Mayer, Royal Blood, Snarky Puppy, Limp Bizkit, Paramore, The Beatles and Nirvana.

It started with drums. Traka always wanted to play them, drawn to the way they underpin everything else in a song, and when secondary school came around he started lessons. By the time he left he'd reached Grade 6.

In 2020, with lockdown giving him little else to do, he found himself making beats on GarageBand. He put together a rough collection of songs using loops and his voice, released them quietly on YouTube, and largely moved on. He switched to Bandlab not long after, which worked better for him across his Chromebook and Android phone. Around the same time he started watching keyboard tutorials, wanting to learn enough chords to write more freely without relying on loops. His first fully original single came out of that period, and things gradually built from there — a few more singles, a Christmas track that ended up getting played on the radio.

The summer of 2022 brought a turning point. His family got involved with the Glastonbury crew, working as a walkabout act on the Kidz Field. Between sets and costume changes, Traka kept gravitating toward the guitar tent, partly because the people running it made it so welcoming. He spent most of his free time there that weekend, learning basic chords, and by the end was recording a Lion King cover in a small portable studio on site — singing and playing guitar, then jumping on drums for a jam. It was a formative few days.

Back home, a few months of practising on a classical guitar led to his first electric. He released a 13-song album — mostly pop, with some rock threaded through — and took on an extra GCSE in music through school, having not chosen it initially. Any time he wasn't in lessons he was in his room, working on songs. He'd also picked up bass by this point. The following summer he released Eclipsed Realities, a five-song heavy alt-rock EP.

The summer after that, he put out a seven-song experimental album with each track in a different genre — more of a personal exercise in songwriting than anything else, but one that helped shape what came next.

He started posting more regularly on social media around the time of The Project, his first properly promoted album. The concept was simple: every song was a different genre, written around whoever he was collaborating with on that track. It's sitting at around 3,500 streams on Spotify. A follow-up single, One Bit Like You, came a few months later and performed similarly.

His most recent album, SUN, released on 15th May 2026, pulls together blues-influenced pop, nu-metal and hard rock. The production is noticeably stronger than his earlier work, and he's been gigging locally alongside it — a step up from busking the previous year, and a way of slowly building a live presence to go alongside everything else.