Sarah Owen: Lynsey de Paul Prize Runner Up 2017
Thoughts, people, struggles – they exist whether you’re in the real world or the make believe. SERA aka Sarah Owen finds herself somewhere in between the two, where the surreal sits side by side with reality – and having grown up and in a Welsh town between the ethereal Snowdonia Mountains and the Irish sea, you could understand why. That is the source of inspiration behind this new music for 2019.
A pianist and a songwriter first and foremost, SERA has for the last few years been writing, recording and performing in both English and Welsh. Over the last year, SERA has spent time in the studio working and writing with producer Andi Bonsai, looking at the real stories she wanted to tell with a sound that matched her ambition. The result is a collection of songs inspired by anxiety, love, nostalgia, ancestry, witch trials, ship figureheads and lost worlds. It’s all there. It’s all SERA.
