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From America's Got Talent to performances with Emmy Award winning Broadway actors at just 14, Ria Barkr was born to be an artist.

Ria's buttery vocals trickle down a soulful beat - leaving her listeners in a dream like trance - WONDERLAND MAG

R&B/Pop Artist, Ria Barkr started releasing music in April 2022. Since, she has been on a national tour with festival stops at SXSW, Outloud Pride and noteworthy performances with MajorStage, Sofar Sounds and iHeartRadio in NYC. Ria's warm and tantalizing vocals have garnered over 450,000+ streams on DSP's with only 14% coming from playlists. She's had editoral cover placements and support from Pandora: AMP Fresh Cuts, Amazon Music's: Breakthrough R&B and Tidal Rising: R&B. Not only have DSP's been loving her fresh R&B/Pop blend but media outlets like Wonderland, Mundane Magazine, NME, and Rated R&B have praised her new releases. Ria recently promoted her debut EP, "Alpha She" with a 2 week UK Radio Tour where she gained 5k more month listeners on Spotify along with love from BBC Radio Stations across the country. In February of 2020, Ria went to the UK for a production camp and since has been a part of multiple writing camps worldwide including ones with top publishers like Prescription Songs (RX songs) all as an independent artist.

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Wonderland "work for it" Premiere

900,000+ media views from outlets with around 62M readership.

Pandora’s AMP: Fresh Cuts
TIDAL's Rising: R&B
Amazon Music's Breakthrough R&B
Live Performance & Radio Interview with "the beat London"
“raw vocal talent” - Mundane
Live Performance & Interview with BBC Radio Sheffield

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“smooth, buttery, and soulful” - LISTEN Mag

BIO: Ria Barkr surrendered to the universe and began looking inward during the global shutdown. As a result, Ria tapped into a fountain of creativity that flowed out of the chanteuse and into a fresh collection of new songs that challenge society’s view of women. Ria is also no stranger to the stage, being in productions with Broadway A-listers like Gary Mauer - The Phantom in (The Phantom of the Opera, Les Mis, etc.) David Elder (White Christmas, etc.) Cary Miller (SNF, etc.) and Denise DiRenzo (Cats, etc.) ; Even making callback upon callback leading to the filming portion of America’s Got Talent all by the age of 14 years old. However, it was 2018 when Ria, the artist, first began to take center stage. After a studio session with renowned jazz pianist and composer Jeff Franzel (Frank Sinatra, Josh Groban, The Temptations), who admired her rendition of Etta James’ “At Last,” Ria was ready to begin singing her own truth. Following being discovered online by two producers across the pond in 2018, it was a musical match made in heaven as the craft of songwriting poured out of her. What came after was a whirlwind of local, national and festival performances as she found her artistic voice. Now, just a few years later, Ria is already a promising R&B trailblazer in her own right who’s not afraid to change the game.

“the perfect blend of vulnerability and fearlessness … an inescapable talent for storytelling” - Screen Reels

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Contact:

Steve Hughes : Steve@musicmgmt.co.uk