The Alona Decade

Alona Decade was born into a musically inclined family where music ingrained itself as the driving force that ignited her soul. Singing has been her outlet to express the disparities of life. Deep down, she always knew that one day it would help tell her story.

As a child, she wrote poems and jingles to express her frustration with feeling misunderstood, insecure about her dark skin, and unloved. It was lonely, but Alona found solace with her 2003 HP Pavilion desktop voice recorder, her diary/song book and a pile of gel pens. Intentional or not, Alona marked herself for what she would become. Her amateur writing and singing sessions as a child liberated her. It may have taken a couple of decades, a heap of journals, and a lot of therapy, but 2019 was finally the beginning of her breakthrough.

Her first change was to lock her hair, a change that others had discouraged her from doing since the age of 10. Her second move was to invest in equipment and build a DIY recording studio in her apartment. She was determined to show the world that you don’t need a big budget to make big dreams come true.

Then, in 2020, she lost her job due to Covid-19, giving her time to be honest about her dreams. She began writing what would become her debut album, Indecisive. From there, she never looked back. The studio became her sanctuary and now every song she writes is a piece of her testimony; intented to inspire everyone toward conscious self-mastery, liberation, and love.