Formula Indie Sessions : Interview with LetaLota
What is your earliest memory connected to music?
My earliest memory connected to music is my grandmother. She cared for me and surrounded me with her beautiful voice, her passion for music, and the stories she told me about classical composers. We regularly went to the opera house, and I started to feel music in every cell of my body very early.
I began singing with her when I was still very young, and that’s where my journey began…from playing piano, to choirs, to bands, and eventually live performing. Music has been with me ever since that very first moment.
How did your passion for creating music begin?
Music was always somehow a part of me. I first turned to lyrics and melodies as a way to express my feelings ; happiness, pain, sorrow, doubts, and fears ; just for myself, on blank paper. Some emotions don’t disappear until you turn them to melodies. Then one day, someone heard it and told me it was good, and that’s where the journey really began.
What’s the story behind your current music project?
Most of our songs come from real emotional tension, real attachment, real confusion. Nothing is fully invented. We just hide the truth carefully enough inside the music.
How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music before?
Dark cinematic pop-rock with emotional scars underneath it. Beautiful melodies hiding uncomfortable truths.
What is one thing you’ve learned that completely changed the way you make music?
The one thing I learned that completely changed the way I make music is to always be honest ,to truly be yourself and express your inner soul, wisdom, and love through melody. When music comes from a real place, people can feel it.
What tools, instruments, or software are essential in your creative process?
Guitar and piano are always there somehow. Even when a song changes completely later, the emotional core usually begins with one of them.
Which indie artist or song are you loving right now?
There are many indie artists I truly love right now ; crazy, creative, and pure genius in their own way. It would be unfair to mention only a few, because so many of them remain in the shadows, pushing love and truth through music with all their heart. In a world where noise, money, and interests often dominate music, they still create from the soul and that’s what I respect the most.
How have your personal experiences influenced your music and artistic vision?
Completely. The music would not exist without those experiences. Love, distance, obsession, silence, misunderstanding… all of it became part of the sound.
What emotions or messages do you hope listeners take from your work?
Music is like a mirror. Maybe listeners will hear our story, but somehow recognize themselves inside it too.
What’s the most important lesson music has taught you so far?
The most important lesson music has taught me is that music is life itself. Music heals, music warms, music makes you happy, and sometimes it makes you wild. Music can also make you cry, feel sadness deeply, and face the parts of yourself you try to hide. It makes you question yourself, life, love, and time. Music can touch your heart, find a place inside you deeper than the ocean, and lead you to unknown places within your soul. It is there in the morning, the evening, the sleepless nights, and every new day. To me, music is pure love….music is God Himself.
What is a dream venue or festival you would love to perform at?
My dream venue or festival is any place where people can truly listen, feel, and connect. A place where, for a moment in time, everything stops and love flows like a river of emotion between all of us, becoming unity. No matter who we are or where we come from, that is the real magic of music.
If you could collaborate with any artist, past or present, who would it be and why?
It would be very hard to choose just one. There are many artists I love and deeply admire from both eras.
But honestly, I would choose those artists who create from pure emotion …from obsession, from madness, from being deeply in love with music itself. The ones who don’t build their sound around strategy or fame, but around feeling, truth, and inner fire. That kind of energy is what truly inspires me.
Where can our listeners follow and support your music?
You can follow and support LetaLota on all major streaming platforms and social media everywhere:
YouTube @LetaLota | Instagram @letalotaofficial | Facebook LetaLotaPage | Spotify LetaLota
Looking toward the future, what’s your dream for the next chapter of your musical journey?
I don’t really see it as “the future” ..there is only the now, the moment I want to hold onto and transform into my reality. My dream is to finish my album, play concerts, and touch hearts through music. And in that shared moment, everything should feel eternal as if time stops and the feeling lasts forever…
What do you hope listeners will discover about you along the way?
I want them to find a part of themselves in my music. I hope they discover the messages inside the stories I try to express .. emotions, mystery, answers, and questions.
Hidden beneath the sound, there are secret messages waiting to be felt rather than explained. And through that, I hope we all connect in a deeper way ..beyond words, beyond sound….
