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Sienna Spiro

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Smoky-voiced UK balladeer — big-room soul at 19, torch songs with an old head's control, a debut voice that sounds decades deep.

Sienna Spiro grew up in London, the daughter of jeweller Glenn Spiro and Arabella Spiro, and began writing songs at ten after hearing Etta James and Frank Sinatra alongside early-2000s hip-hop. She attended Francis Holland School before leaving East London Arts & Music at sixteen to focus on music full time, and has spoken about being diagnosed with ADHD.

She built an audience by posting singing videos, covers and originals, on TikTok from 2021 onward, before releasing her debut single, "Need Me," in May 2024. Follow-up single "Maybe" became her first entry on the UK Singles Chart later that year, and further singles "Taxi Driver" and "Back to Blonde" followed before her debut EP, Sink Now, Swim Later, arrived in February 2025.

Her music has been described as sitting across pop, jazz and soul, and she cites singers including Amy Winehouse, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin and Sarah Vaughan as touchstones alongside Sinatra and James.

The single "Die on This Hill," released in October 2025, became her breakthrough, reaching number nine on the UK Singles Chart and selling several million copies worldwide. It led to a global publishing deal with Sony Music Publishing and a nomination for the Critics' Choice award at the 2026 Brit Awards. In May 2026 she performed "Nature Boy" at the Royal Albert Hall for broadcaster David Attenborough's 100th birthday, and that July she released her debut studio album, Visitor.

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