Saniyé is a multi-award-winning songwriter, pop artist, record label owner, and founder of 6/8 Music, a media company dedicated to "Women Who Empower Through Music." She has received the Grand Prize in the International John Lennon Songwriting Competition and won the subsequent Lennon Award the following year for her song "Boom Sheke Nana," along with numerous other songwriting accolades. Her latest album, Let’s Play, produced and mixed by Grammy-winning producer Mikal Blue (Colbie Caillat, Jason Mraz, Rita Wilson), is a vibrant collection of pop songs influenced by artists like Lily Allen, Meghan Trainor, and Ingrid Michaelson.
Saniyé has opened for Lisa Loeb, toured across the U.S. and Canada, performed on TV shows, and sang the National Anthem at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Her music has been featured on Delta Airlines, MTV Europe, and in stores like Gap and Panera Bread, as well as on tastemaker radio stations like WFUV. Her work has also received significant press, particularly in her home country of Turkey.
In Fall 2024, she was selected as a showcase performer at The Durango Songwriter’s Festival and invited by the Society of Lyricists and Composers (SCL) to perform in a songwriters showcase in NYC. She was also recently chosen as a Music Mentor for the 2025 edition of the GRAMMYU mentorship program through the Recording Academy.
Saniyé’s latest accomplishment includes fulfilling a lifelong dream by composing an original song for film. She will be releasing a new pop EP later this year.
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Saniye started writing songs and playing music at the age of 5, so it is no surprise that her emotionally driven and eclectic debut album “When I Don’t Sleep” made it’s rounds nationally and internationally with much success. Songs from the album played on Delta Airlines and are currently still playing in stores nationwide in the U.S. Music videos for "Are We In Love" and "I'll Confide" aired on MTV Europe, as well tastemaker stations across the nation. Most notably, Saniye won her first major songwriting award with "Boom Sheke Nana," a song that won the Grand Prize in the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Both the song and the album were produced by Grammy-Award-winning producer, Henri Scars Struck.
Following the album's release, Saniye went on a thirty-city U.S. tour, headlined a sold-out show at Joe's Pub in New York City and ended the tour by opening for multi-platinum singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb.
Saniye describes the first album as a diary. “It was shy and exposed at the same time. Looking back I can see I was shedding my sadness and working through the loss of my father. My fun and bold spirit was a bit squashed after my father's death. We lost him to cancer when I was very young. I've always felt a hole in my life as a result. Purging these emotions has helped me get back to my fun, flirty, mischievous essence."
Saniye has matured musically since then but hasn’t grown up in the traditional sense. “I never want to fully own the title ‘grown-up’. I think the magic of life is in play, mischief, and for me, music. I don’t think when we become a certain age we should have to abandon this side of ourselves. My music attempts to bring that out for all of us."
“My new music is like a rebirth. I'm really expressing myself without the weight of loss and grief, shyness and insecurity. It’s just pure fun and it feels great to reclaim the childish, playful part of myself. My influences are other bold and playful artists who say what they want. Feminine but unapologetic about who they are."
Photo: Sinem Yazici