Yndi Ferreira Da Silva

Yndi Ferreira Da Silva (born 1994), formerly known under the stage name Dream Koala, is a trans French-Brazilian producer, songwriter and singer.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Yndi was born to Brazilian parents in Paris, France on 18 May 1994.^[1]^[3] Without any formal music education, she started making music and taught herself to play the guitar at the age of fourteen. Yndi began publishing her music in 2012 under the name "Dream Koala" when she was living in Berlin, Germany. After transitioning, Yndi released music under her own name "YNDI" in 2021.^[1]

Music

Yndi's music is described as melancholic electropop, incorporating different style of music from electronic R&B to Afro-Brazilian music.^[2]^[4]

Dream Koala

In 2012, Dream Koala released the first single "We Can't Be Friends", followed by the first EP "Earth.Home.Destroyed" released on 7 May 2014.^[3]^[4] As Dream Koala, Yndi produced mainly instrumental, and some English-lyric songs. Dream Koala gained further publicity when Doja Cat released the song "No Police" in 2014, which sampled "We Can't Be Friends". Critiques classified Dream Koala's music as a "dystopian soundscape", comparing her voice to Sade and FKA Twigs.^[4]

YNDI

In 2021, Yndi released her first album "Noir Brésil" ("Black Brazil") under her real name.^[2]^[5] Yndi switched to French and Portuguese lyrics, touching on subjects more closely related to her heritage.^[2] She gained popularity online through her performance of "Ailleurs" for the COLORS Show in January 2021, and again for "Amazona" in April of the same year.^[5] Yndi also engages in visual art in her music videos, which she claims to be inspired by video games and cinema.^[2]^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Brown, Jacob (17 October 2013). "Dream Koala debuts his new music video of "Odyssey"". Vogue. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Pontecorvo, Adriane (3 June 2021). "Yndi's Noir Brésil is a melancholy electropop fantasy". Popmatters. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b Schifferegger, Katja (6 May 2014). "Space Odyssey - A talk with Dream Koala". c-heads. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Fitzgerald, Kiana (3 November 2015). "Songs We Love: Dream Koala, "Dimension Sleeper"". NPR. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Argiropulos-Hunter, Zoë (26 May 2021). "YNDI (FKA Dream Koala) will leave audiences transfixed with debut "Noir Brésil"". Also Cool. Retrieved 30 January 2023.

[:0-1] Brown, Jacob (17 October 2013). "Dream Koala debuts his new music video of "Odyssey"". Vogue. Retrieved 6 February 2023.

[:1-2] Pontecorvo, Adriane (3 June 2021). "Yndi's Noir Brésil is a melancholy electropop fantasy". Popmatters. Retrieved 30 January 2023.

[:2-3] Schifferegger, Katja (6 May 2014). "Space Odyssey - A talk with Dream Koala". c-heads. Retrieved 4 February 2023.

[:3-4] Fitzgerald, Kiana (3 November 2015). "Songs We Love: Dream Koala, "Dimension Sleeper"". NPR. Retrieved 30 January 2023.

[:4-5] Argiropulos-Hunter, Zoë (26 May 2021). "YNDI (FKA Dream Koala) will leave audiences transfixed with debut "Noir Brésil"". Also Cool. Retrieved 30 January 2023.

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