BORN IN FRANKFURT MAIN, SHE PERFORMED TO MUSIC AT A YOUNG AGE AS A BALLET DANCER AND A TOP-RANKED FIGURE SKATER. IN HER EARLY TEENS CYRA STARTED STUDYING THE PIANO AND LATER ON, AT UNIVERSITY, SHE WAS TRAINED FOR SEVERAL YEARS AS A CLASSICAL VOCALIST BASED ON THE FUNCTIONAL METHOD, NEW YORK.

CYRA RECORDED HER DEBUT SOLO ALBUM AT THE AGE OF 17 AND SOON AFTER TOURED EUROPE-WIDE WITH HER FIRST ROCK BAND, PIECES. FOLLOWING THESE SUCCESSES, SHE STARTED WORKING WITH HER SECOND BAND SHELL AND THE OCEAN, SIGNED BY EMI. THEIR DEBUT ALBUM “TURN BLUE” PAVED THE WAY FOR A TOUR WITH THE BEE GEES PERFORMING IN SOLD OUT VENUES AND STADIUMS IN GERMANY, INCLUDING WALDBÜHNE, BERLIN. DUE TO AN INTERNATIONAL FAN BASE’S POPULAR DEMAND, “TURN BLUE” WAS DIGITALLY RE-RELEASED WORLDWIDE BY EMI, NOW UNDER UNIVERSAL MUSIC, IN 2011.

THROUGHOUT THE NINETIES, CYRA CONTINUED TO BREAK THROUGH INTERNATIONALLY AS A VOCALIST, WORKING WITH THE LIKES OF MARIAH CAREY, SARAH BRIGHTMAN AND MARK KNOPFLER (FORMERLY DIRE STRAITS), FEATURING ON HIS SOLO ALBUM “GOLDEN HEART”. IN 1998 SHE WAS OFFERED A MAJOR RECORD DEAL WITH THE CHART-BREAKING EURO HIP-HOP ACT, DOWN LOW, AFTER PERFORMING WITH THEM TO PROMOTE THEIR TOP TEN SINGLE “ONCE UPON A TIME” ON HIT TELEVISION SHOWS INCLUDING THE DOME AND TOP OF THE POPS.

THROUGHOUT HER CAREER CYRA HAS DRAWN INSPIRATION FROM COLLABORATING WITH A RANGE OF MUSICIANS – INCREASING HER DIVERSITY ALSO BY PERFORMING AND STUDYING IN THE USA WITH A FOCUS ON PERCUSSION. CYRA’S CAREER HAS SEEN HER GOING FROM FLORIDA AND NASHVILLE TO LOS ANGELES AND EVEN OSLO (NORWAY), CONTRIBUTING TO LIVE MUSIC PROJECTS THAT HAVE WIDENED AND DEEPENED THE IMPROVISATION AND EXPERIMENTATION SKILLS THAT ENRICH HER SIGNATURE SOUND.

CYRA’S MUSIC INVITES LISTENERS INTO HER WORLD WITH A VULNERABILITY AND AUTHENTICITY THAT ARE AS RARE AND POWERFUL AS HER VOICE. CYRA’S VOICE HAS A RICH RANGE OF EXPRESSION, CARRYING STRENGTH, INTIMACY AND FRAGILITY IN EQUAL MEASURE, TAKING THE LISTENER ON JOURNEYS THROUGH A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCES. THE TAPESTRY THAT SHE WEAVES FROM ONE SONG TO THE NEXT HAS A UNIQUE TEXTURE DRAWN TOGETHER BY AN UNMISTAKABLE CROSSOVER SOUND THAT ENCOMPASSES CLASSIC-INSPIRED, EMOTIONAL BALLADS AND ROCK-INFUSED ANTHEMS WITH INSPIRATIONAL LYRICS.