T H E O R I G I N

Audia is a Brooklyn-born, Queens-raised rapper and artist. The name says everything: short for Claudia, the feminine of audio, a word built for someone who found her voice by returning to sound.

She came to music through loss. In 2019, she lost her stepfather, one of three Deaf parents who shaped everything she understands about communication, silence, and story. Growing up in Bushwick as a proud CODA, Child of Deaf Adults, she learned early that language lives in the hands, the body, the eyes. Silence was never empty in her home. It was full. It was alive. It was the first language she ever learned to read. When her stepfather passed, grief put her on autopilot. Then music pulled her out of it. She'd never written a rap before, wasn't even sure she could, but when sound broke through she felt she owed it something back.

What emerged was a sound she calls cinematic and ethereal. Rap built like a film score, layered with imagery, intention, and emotion. It makes sense. Before music, she spent years in front of the camera as a working actress. She made her television debut on Showtime's Let the Right One In, appeared on FBI, Law & Order, and Dear Edward, and earned a recurring role on CBS's East New York as the ever-grounded Coach Sabrina. In 2017 she won an AUDELCO Award for Best Ensemble for her work in Daughters of the Mock with the legendary Negro Ensemble Company. While filming East New York, her performance was personally recognized by Jimmy Smits and Richard Kind. She knows how to hold a scene. Now she's building them in sound.

She moves through her artistry in three dimensions: the Whimsical One who offers grace, the Unapologetic One who speaks boldly, and the Spiritual One who leads. Her debut project, AoA: Age of Aquaria, is in motion with her debut single Nocturne arriving July 10th, 2026 and a performance video already offering the first glimpse of where she's headed.

Audia isn't new to storytelling. She's new to telling it this way. And it goes a lil somethin' like this.....