Aayushi | Birmingham folk singer-songwriter

Illustrated artwork of an ethereal female figure hanging fron a tree branch with her feet suspended from the ground

About

"Wonderfully magical and timeless"

Aayushi is a contemporary folk singer-songwriter from Birmingham, UK, with Indian heritage. She writes strikingly tender songs, delivering them with an intimacy that has often been described as the sonic equivalent of a warm hug.

While she draws comparisons to contemporaries like Julia Jacklin and Rachel Sermanni, her earliest musical influences come from the lo-fi, fuzz-folk world of Neutral Milk Hotel, Bright Eyes, and The Microphones.

Fresh On The Net

"This is language distilled into pure feeling, this is poetry"

Phil Shaw, Get to the Chorus

Recent years have seen Aayushi bring her music to stages across the UK, including the Southbank Centre, Commonwealth Games, Deer Shed Festival, and support for Frank Turner at his sold-out Birmingham show at the O2 Academy.

Aayushi has self-released a host of singles that have garnered her a global online following. With support from the likes of BBC 6’s Fresh on The Net and BBC West Midlands, her music has graced Spotify’s ‘Most Beautiful Songs in the World’ and ‘New Music Friday UK’ playlists, racking up over 8 million Spotify streams to date.

Over the last year she has taken part in residencies with Opera North and Dialled In to arrange, perform and record a selection of contemporary folk adaptations of bhajans and ghazals, with the aim of bringing the beauty of South Asian poetry to life in a 21st century world.