Sonyae Elise

Sonyae Elise Covington is an American singer and songwriter. Based in Los Angeles, she won the inaugural and only season of Platinum Hit, an American television show on Bravo about competing emerging songwriters. Her prize included US$100,000 as a cash prize, an RCA/Jive Records contract and a publishing deal with The Writing Camp.

According to her interview with Billboard, Elise does not read music nor can she play any instruments. "I have a lot of old stuff at my mother's house, notebooks and things with scripts and lyrics written in them. I did a lot of theater – 'Grease,' 'The Lion King' – and I wanted to write music for plays. Lyrics came naturally to me. I listened to a lot of pop music and KRS-One and MC Lyte and I saw [writing] as a way to express my thoughts." For her winning song, she wrote "My Religion", which was released as her 2011 single after her victory.