Kadhja Bonet was born on January 31, 1988 in Los Angeles, California, and is an American singer and songwriter. She grew up surrounded by music through her opera-singer father Allen Bonet and musician mother Deborah Church, learning violin early and later teaching herself guitar and piano. She first entered the public eye in 2014 with the single “Tears for Lamont” and the subsequent mini-album The Visitor EP, which she self-released in September 2015 before re-releasing it in October 2016 as The Visitor through Fat Possum Records and Fresh Selects. In 2018, she released her second studio album Childqueen, recorded while touring abroad, accompanied by the EP Childqueen Outtakes and the single “Delphine”. Childqueen charted on Billboard’s Independent Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. Bonet collaborated with artists such as Anderson .Paak, SiR, Bonobo, Khruangbin, and Free Nationals, featuring on tracks like “On Sight” and “New Sky”. In 2021, she released the single “For You” and added the EP California Holiday (2022) to her discography.
