Jey Khemeya

Based in Lyon, Jey Khemeya develops a project at the crossroads of contemporary R&B, soul and pop, carried by a personal writing and a marked attention to vocal melodies. Trained at the Lyon conservatory in clarinet, she gradually integrates this instrument into her universe, which gives her songs a more singular color without leaving a voice-centered framework. Jey Khemeya begins her discography with the EP Perceptions in 2022, then continues with several singles that extend this aesthetic between softness, rhythmic tension and introspection. Her name circulates more after a passage at Nuits de Fourvière in 2023, a step that accompanies her establishment on the Lyon scene. In her songs, Jey Khemeya blends references from R&B, soul and urban pop, with a supple and direct singing that occupies the foreground. The single Differently fits in this continuity by addressing the difficulties of expressing attachment and feelings to close ones, in an intimate and restrained register. Between anglophone vocal heritage, classical instrumental background and local anchoring, Jey Khemeya is building a still recent trajectory, already identifiable by this dialogue between sung emotion and instrumental texture.