
Episode #1
Rivkala on Connection, Cabaret and the Art of Being Yourself | Music Lives Here
<p>Rivkala is no ordinary musician. She takes to the stage in great button eyelashes, a prim pencil moustache, and a 1920s flapper-cum-cabaret-cum-businesswoman wardrobe. And her music is just as impossible to pin down as any one thing. Winner of the Youth Music Awards Music Video Award for Chess and part of Youth Music’s Next Gen programme, she released her debut EP, ‘Crushed Velvet’ in 2025 to widespread acclaim. Since then, she’s performed solo at the BBC Proms, collaborated with jazz heavyweights the Joe Webb Trio and Theo Croker, and has been described as pushing neo-soul to new heights, with wor...



