I sing this everyday these days and I always think about laying down all the harmonies and make a choir of myself. Voila, at least a part of the song anyways. El Kanka is magnificent

Para Quedarte (El Kanka)

Australian multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter, Alisha Todd sings the songs of a curious traveller, bringing focus to the beauty and pain of humans and nature alike.

From her humble beginnings being raised on country and 90’s pop in small town Gympie to European explorations of getting lost to be found, Alisha’s music too has travelled and evolved in time to be the inspiring nuggets of unconditional encouragement needed while on the endless pursuit of happiness. She draws inspiration from travel and change; the separation from the expectation of who you were and the release from these shackles on the human psyche. “When you allow yourself to just be, the sky is not the limit, it’s the borders of your mind”. 

In 2019 Alisha independently released two singles. First came ‘Icelandia’, a dreamy, guitar laden love song, swimming in soaring vocal harmonies that transport the listener straight to the source of inspiration: the unforgettable and inexplicable peacefulness of Iceland. “If there is one place in the world I feel completely at ease, Iceland is it. I enjoy the silence there, it gives you so much space. I learned a lot from the way humans can be so generous to strangers”. 

The second offering, 'Chaos', is a powerful synth-driven lament for the current social and natural crises, co-produced by Scott French from Gold Coast’s Lovestreet Studios. It paints a hopeful future to cling to and says all the things that fill your conscience and are bursting to dance off the tip of your tongue.

In these pop-inspired landscapes Alisha pulls you into her world of wanderlust through reconnection with nature and the beauty and pain of human existence, the dark and the light. Her music is emotional. It bares a soul dancing in the Scandinavian mountains melded with the heart of a small-town Aussie girl. 

Alisha spent 2019 releasing music (both as Alisha Todd and with her 2nd project Volcanic Lovers) and played well loved Australian festivals Bello Winter Music, Caloundra Music Festival and Mullum Festival. In 2020, while the world slows down to breathe in, we can expect new music from Alisha, starting on April 23rd with her 3rd single ‘If You Wanna’.