Kadhja Bonet


Kadhja Bonet is an American musician.

Early life

Bonet grew up in Richmond, California, as the middle child of seven siblings and studied classical music from an early age, playing the violin. Her father is an opera singer and her mother also a musician. She taught herself guitar and other instruments.

Career

Bonet's debut, the single "Tears for Lamont" was produced by Itai Shapira and released in 2014. Later that year, while participating in the Red Bull Music Academy program in Tokyo, she collaborated on and released "Late Night Munchies."
The mini album The Visitor EP was released in September 2015, then re-released under the name in October 2016, receiving extensive radio air play.
Her second album, Childqueen, written while touring abroad, was released on June 8, 2018.

Critical reaction

Bonet's music has been described as psychedelic soul while, for other critics, it "amalgamates folk, jazz and soul," or evokes "Billie Holiday, whisky, and 1940s Disney" in a "genre-defying" way.
Clash magazine wrote that her second album "places Kadhja Bonet in a league of her own." The single "Delphine" from the album was described as "spellbinding" and the album itself as "proof of her idiosyncratic genius."

Discography

;Studio albums
;Extended plays
Childqueen Outtakes