BIO

At her core, Reeya Banerjee is a storyteller. With a background in playwriting, film, and creative nonfiction, her songwriting is deeply narrative and emotionally raw, woven from the threads of memory, loss, healing, and a relentless pursuit of self-understanding. As a high school student, she wrote and directed original one-act plays. In college, she studied film and worked with a documentary filmmaker, learning how to shape stories visually and structurally. Today, she is a Staff Writer at Story Screen Presents, where she explores media and pop culture through the lens of personal narrative, with additional work featured on CurtCo Media’s A Moment of Your Time podcast, the Peauxdunque Review, Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine, and more. She is also a Pushcart Prize nominee for her work in Streetlight Magazine. Additionally, she works as a voiceover artist, lending her voice to brands such as Beats by Dre and working with Yonder Agency and Edge Studio.

Reeya’s music channels a lineage of storytelling powerhouses—The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, and U2—with sonic nods to 90s power pop, post-grunge, and emotional balladry. Inspired equally by Fiona Apple, Alanis Morissette, and the literary heft of Peter Gabriel and Eminem, her songs blur the line between memoir and melody. Her upcoming album, This Place, explores the emotional imprint of the many cities she’s called home, blending sharp lyrical introspection with driving hooks and swelling arrangements. Her previous release, The Way Up, chronicles mental health journeys with fearless honesty.

Whether playing bass, leading a full band (the Merseyside Darby), or writing new material for upcoming EPs, Reeya is an artist who doesn’t just tell stories—she invites you to live in them. Her live shows, drawing on their theater background, are immersive experiences built on connection, catharsis, and sometimes a little rock and roll bombast.

In her other life, she is an accountant, spends her free time pounding the pavement (or the trails) in search of the perfect long run, and has a film degree from Vassar College that she does not use.