Loah is Sallay Matu Garnett, a singer songwriter of Sierra Leonean / Irish origin. While at Trinity College Dublin she collaborated with future members of the likes of Little Green Cars, Slow Skies, and I Have A Tribe, as well as singing with Kíla, Niwel Tsumbu and Trinity Orchestra’s early pop endeavours. She also contributed to Hozier’s platinum selling debut album, co-writing the song “Someone New”. She has now embarked on a solo career, combining her unique blend of folk and soul which she calls “ArtSoul”. In 2014 she released two songs ('The Bailey' and 'Cortege'), performed at Electric Picnic, the Dublin Fringe Festival, and Body&Soul’s Shapeshifters Ball amongst others. In 2016 she performed in Glen Hansard’s Imagining Home: This Is Ireland concert in the National Concert Hall, Dublin and the Irish Arts Centre’s Ireland Rising concert in Symphony Space, New York, along with numerous summer festival appearances, while recording her debut EP.
