SHOLA AURORA is the former singer of New York City based visual rock band Sol Ardour which is currently on hiatus. As a songwriter and producer, Shola pursues his first venture as a solo artist creating sounds influenced by the musical genres of visual kei , goth, metal, glam, rock, and experimental music while continuing to dwell in N.Y.C.


The creation of his new music cultivated by his own experiences of learning through other's happiness, sadness, joy and despair began to develop a story of a quite lonely observer of the world, a fallen demigod if you will, in search of purpose. Shola's dark and mysterious world is built upon the foundation of music while incorporating lyrics of thought, reflection, endless searching for answers all the while taking you, the listener, along his journey by touching your dormant and deep emotions... resurrecting them for a purpose and end resolve.

Shola Emmanuel’s style is the jazz enthusiasts dream. A creative blend of jazz that feeds off traditional African rhythms, while maintaining the style, class and debonair of a resurgent New Orleans protege.

Shola Emmanuel’s style has stretched the jazz agenda, carved out a niche and prevailed in an environment awash with pop music at the fore.


Eki Shola’s vibrant career in music and medicine can be described best by the artist herself, “I create music not only for myself, but to generate a space for the listener. Music is healing.” A talented vocalist and pianist, Eki Shola’s music transcends genre, as she seamlessly draws from jazz, electronica, world, and new music to create a sonic landscape all her own. Her music has been described as  “…sound art to be used to trigger thought and encourage love and beauty through rhythm and unique composition.”

Born in London to Jamaican parents, Eki Shola was raised in a musical family. She emigrated to New York in the late 1980s and later as a pre-med student at Cornell University, she played in the jazz ensemble performing with legendary musicians such as Steve Turre and Dr. Donald Byrd. Now living in Northern California, Eki released her debut album, Final Beginning, in 2016 and the album has been reviewed, charted and aired around the world. In both 2017 and 2018 Eki Shola was awarded the NorBay Music Award for Best Electronica Artist. She has played across the San Francisco Bay Area, London, and New York City and along with sharing the stage with Georgia Anne Muldrow and Lucky Otis, she has been asked to open for renowned artists such as Kitaro, Bebel Gilberto, DakhaBrakha, and Habib Koité & Bassekou Kouyate. After submitting her song “Dreaming”, filmed among the ruins of her incinerated home, Eki Shola was selected to perform at the 2018 NPR Tiny Desk Contest. Honoring the one-year anniversary of the wildfires, her personal story was recently featured in a PBS TV special, “The New Normal: Visions of Healing”.

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