Loud & Proud 2025:
Miya Folick | Primary Talent International

LA-based singer-songwriter Miya Folick is driven by instinct and drawn to the murk and muck of growth rather than stalled by its complexity.

By IQ | 18 June 2025

AGENTS: Ben Winchester & Charlie Renton | Primary Talent International   LA-based singer-songwriter Miya Folick is driven by instinct and drawn to the murk and muck of growth rather than stalled by its complexity.

AGENTS: Ben Winchester & Charlie Renton | Primary Talent International

 

LA-based singer-songwriter Miya Folick is driven by instinct and drawn to the murk and muck of growth rather than stalled by its complexity.

Her latest album, Erotica Veronica, shows us a woman running headlong into sexual exploration, often teetering on the adolescent edge of hedonism and fear. Folick’s third album is a psychosexual, psychosensual masterstroke: a kaleidoscopic portrait of self-realisation and integration.

“The album is about being queer within a heteronormative relationship structure and within a heteronormative society,” Miya explains, “but…

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