Alya Elouissi

Alya Elouissi is a professional actress, singer, songwriter and model who was born in 1995 in Ljubljana, Slovenia to Slovenian-Algerian parents. Recent credits include Barbie, Wonder Woman, Black Mirror and Silent Witness. She is fluent in 6 languages (English, French, Russian, Slovenian, Arabic, Serbian) and has an elementary knowledge of the Spanish, Italian and Polish languages. Alya has been acting since childhood when she joined a local theatre group. Shortly after she received an award for the most promising actress at the 6th Festival of Theatre Dreams 2007 in Ljubljana. Subsequently she attended various acting schools, workshops and seminars and took part in many theatre productions and short films. She began singing in choirs when she was 6 and progressed with voice coaching at the age of 11 which helped her to develop her unique voice, broad vocal range and stage presence. At the age of 19 she independently moved to London and started to work as an actress, singer, songwriter and model. She appeared in a lot of theatre productions, feature length and short films, TV series, commercials and music videos. In addition to her training in classical, pop, jazz, soul and musical theatre singing styles, she has also studied vocals at the Goldsmiths University of London - Music Department and, has extensive experience of live performing and studio session work as both a lead and backing vocalist. She represented Slovenia in 2016 at the 10th International Theatre Summer School of the Theatre Union of the Russian Federation in Moscow. In 2017 Alya was accepted into Russian Institute of Theatre Arts - GITIS (acting department, class of Mindaugas Karbauskis) from where she graduated in 2021. In 2017 she released her debut single The One and in 2019 her debut EP My Love. She got the 2nd Award for Best Female Singer at RBE Awards 2018 in London and won 3rd place at 24th International Music Festival FENS 2019 with her song "Iz Rusije z ljubeznijo". In 2022 she started working with Dallas Records Slovenia and released her new Slovenian single Dvignem krila in collaboration with Neisha. In 2023 Alya was a selected as an artist for the 42nd Festival Melodije morja in sonca, where she performed with her new summer single Valovim, which also became hit of the week on Radio Rai in Trieste, Italy. In 2024 Alya released her first afrobeat song Give Me Your Time in collaboration with London singer Romel and producer Slic Vic and became the first Slovenian female afrobeat artist in the history. The song made it to Top 100 Nigeria, Best of Nigeria 2024 and other charts and official Spotify playlists to name a few. Its music video was being played on MTV Base West, HipTV and SoundcityTV.