Berlin · Caribbean-American · Vocalist · Composer · Producer · Award Winner · Genre Emancipist

Sera Kalo is a vocalist, composer, producer, and Genre Emancipist working across experimental jazz, future soul, improvisation, and electronic sound.

Berlin-based and Caribbean-American, her work is shaped by cultural multiplicity and by the conviction that music’s most vital forms have always existed between and beyond genre’s borders.

The voice sits at the center of everything: physical, expressive, and deeply connected to emotion, rhythm, and space. Guided by intuition and presence, she follows where her musical spirit leads, allowing each project to take its own form, language, and energy. Improvisation is not a stylistic gesture in her practice, but a way of composing in real time, responding to collaborators, audiences, and environments.

Her work engages the structural question of who gets to define what music is and for whom. Across the eX series, she argues that the distance between experimental and popular, between jazz and punk, between tradition and rupture, is constructed rather than natural. Music, in her hands, is a living practice: revolutionary in spirit, open in form, and rooted in collective experience.

She was awarded the German Jazz Prize 2025 in the Vocal category and the Sony Female Producer Prize 2024. Her work has been presented internationally in concert halls, clubs, theaters, and interdisciplinary contexts, and continues to gain growing attention across borders for its originality and urgency.