Zara

Island grown from the West Coast of Canada, Zara hit the dance music scene in 2005 with her soft and smooth summer vocal hit ‘No Why’, released on Deep Dish’s label Yoshitoshi.
It was the singer-songwriter’s first of many releases with world renowned progressive house DJ and producer Sultan. Since then Zara has been spreading her heartfelt melodies around the globe with live performances including songs like their single, the official remix of Olivia
Newton-John’s “Let’s Get Physical” (Yoshitoshi) which is being re-released on Yoshitoshi: Best of 2008 compilation. In just 4 short years since she first stepped in front of the mic Zara has been featured on over 40 albums, including singles and compilations.

Although Zara got a successful start with her first few releases in the progressive house scene, it now goes to show that she is no music elitist. She loves to dance and lives to sing to a wide variety of genres and passionately takes on whatever production inspires her. In 2007 Zara began collaborating with the talented trance producer, DJ Shah and they released their first song together, “Crawling” on Shah’s album “Sunlounger- Another Day on the Terrace” (Armada). The song was a soaring success and quickly became the #1 downloaded song off the album which immediately hit top 10 on the dance charts in most European countries and came in as the #1 downloaded album on iTunes Holland and remained in the top 10 for over a year. With an incredible response to their first song, Zara and Shah teamed up again for two more songs, “Talk to Me” and “Lost” another huge hit which reached #1 on Beatport’s trance charts, is featured on Armin’s State of Trance 2008 album and was just
voted #1 Song of 2008 on the official ASOT top 20.

Now residing in Vancouver, Zara is busy in the studio working on her first solo album and getting ready for her upcoming tour dates. With banging new electro-house hits to haunting belearic-trance classics, this versatile chanteuse shows anything can be expected and much is to be anticipated.