Zoya was born in New Delhi, India in April 1993. At 6 months old, she moved with her family to Newport Beach, California where she spent her childhood. As a teenager she attended Orange County School of the Arts in the Visual Arts and Commercial Voice Conservatory. She began writing and performing original material in local bars and coffeehouses up and down the California coast. Upon graduating from OCSA in 2011, Zoya began attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. She continued to write and perform original music while attending class as a full-time student in the MusicBusiness Program. In 2013, she released Letters To Toska EP and began booking her own gigs across the East Coast and California, performing at famous music clubs like Rockwood Music Hall and Whisky A Go-Go. She opened for Storyman, Ryan Scott, at the first literature event presented by the Indo-American Arts Council featuring author, Salman Rushdie. In 2014, she released her visual EP, "Lasya", via YouTube and later opened for singer-songwriter, Kawehi, which ultimately landed her a supporting slot on Kawehi's Evolution Tour the same year. In the summer of 2015 Zoya released her full-length album The Girl Who Used To Live in My Room. In October 2015, eight producers collaborated with Zoya to compile an electronic remix album entitled, Zoya: Plugged In in which all proceeds from the album were donated to organizations providing electricity to rural schools in Udaipur, India. At the end of 2015, Zoya began touring and performing shows all across India performing at festivals, venues, and even presented songwriting classes at various contemporary music schools.
"As someone wielding both a music business degree and a microphone, there isn't a thing does without integrity, and that comes through in her work: whimsical and experimental, but never for a second vapid. There's a message in every line she pens—sometimes about herself, sometimes about the world.." – Boxx Magazine
"Her vocal abilities had us hooked and post her latest release titled ‘What's Done is Done’, our obsession with her has intensified times one thousand." – Pepsi MTV Indies
"Name to know: ZOYA MOHAN. She's always in the driver's seat...she's scanning for new sounds... she works the spotlight" – ELLE India
Discography
Letters To Toska
Lasya
The Girl Who Used To Live in My Room
Zoya: Plugged In
Natural Disaster
The Kingdom
Afterglow
Bad Girls Dream Ft. Jack Harlow
Here
Worth It
Philanthropy
In 2015, proceeds from Zoya's remix album Zoya: Plugged In, were donated to the "Electronic Music for Electricity" Campaign, a fund created to install electricity in government and non-government schools in rural India. The album features eight remixes, all created by different producers, from Zoya's albums The Girl Who Used To Live In My Room & Letters To Toska. The campaign aimed to raise funds for schools in need of electricity in order to provide a better educational environment for children in rural India.
