2024 These Days Magazine Artist to Watch MOYANA (Moyana Music, LLC) is passionate about making music that makes a difference. Blending jazz, R&B, and neo-soul, she engages in intimate storytelling through song. MOYANA released her debut album PTCHWRK, produced by 7VNTH, in 2025 with a headliner show at Beat Kitchen. Her sound is currently shaped at studioSHAPES in Lincoln Park. She is a voting member of the Recording Academy’s Chicago Chapter.

 

In 2024, she received the Black Music Action Coalition’s Victoria Monet x Music Maker Grant. In 2023, she received the LGBTQ+ Emerging Artist Award from CITIBank and the Music Forward Foundation, the Quinn Coleman Scholarship from the Recording Academy, and the Young Artist Scholarship from the John Walt Foundation. Her performance highlights include Lollapalooza 2025, shapesFEST at Navy Pier, City Winery Chicago, Capri Theater, Schubas Tavern, Rockwood Music Hall, and the 50th annual Dillo Day, the largest student-run music festival in the United States. 

  

MOYANA'S work has been featured by These Days Magazine, Vocalo, and the Chicago Reader, GLAAD, the Best Buy Corporation, The View, the National Women’s March Movement, the ACLU, KMOJ radio, and many film festivals, including the 2022 Seattle International Film Festival and the 2022 DIYDS Festival at Harvard Art Museums. 

 

She is an alum of the 2023 Willis Wonderland Foundation Next Level Songwriters Workshop and of the 2022 Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project, and she served as a 2023 Keepsake House Artist-in-Residence in New York. 

 

In addition to performing, MOYANA is passionate about uplifting the rising generation of artists. She offers private vocal coaching and is a teaching artist in residence with the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Opera Theater.