Sakura grew up in a household full of music as her father is a producer, instrumentalist, and touring musician. As a kid, her parents owned a chicken wing stand in East Point, GA, where she remembers hearing, “Isn’t She Lovely” by Stevie Wonder …the record that inspired her to actively start listening to music.  

 

“I always wanted to sing my whole life. I remember staying up at night and I would listen to people play music downstairs.” – Sakura 

 

In middle school, Sakura started playing the piano after attending a few classes provided by a close friend of her mother. During high school, she was gifted a guitar by her parents which she began to play regularly by teaching herself while watching YouTube videos of people playing her favorite childhood songs. She wrote her first record as a student studying film and music at Georgia State University, after buying a small MIDI keyboard and Logix. 

 

Sakura describes her music as alternative R&B, indie soul, and indie R&B. Her musical influences include Stevie Wonder, Amy Winehouse, Jazmine Sullivan and Ne-Yo. Sakura’s first performed in 2019 at a Jelani Imani show and has had numerous performances throughout the years including a performance at Rolling Loud with Kenny Mason, performing their record “Angels Calling”. In 2022, she performed alongside J.I.D for his MTV unplugged performance and was also chosen as one of Tidal’s “Tidal’s Rising” artists out of Georgia and went on to perform at numerous other musical venues to rave reviews from the audience in attendance.