Yndi Ferreira Da Silva (born May 18, 1994), formerly known under the stage name Dream Koala, is a trans French-Brazilian producer, songwriter and singer.

Biography

Yndi was born to Brazilian parents in

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on 18 May 1994. 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

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. After transitioning, Yndi released music under her own name "YNDI" in 2021.

Music

Yndi's music is described as melancholic elecropop, incorporating different style of music from electronic R&B to Afro-Brazilian music.

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. 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

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YNDI

In 2021, Yndi released her first album "Noir Brésil" ("Black Brazil") under her real name. Yndi switched to French and Portuguese lyrics, touching on subjects more closely related to her heritage. 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. Yndi also engages in visual art in her music videos, which she claims to be inspired by video games and cinema. Her single Nuit was a soundtrack for

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References

1994 births Living people {{catimprove, date=April 2023 French singers French songwriters Brazilian transgender musicians French transgender women Transgender women musicians Singers from Paris