Lulla LayLa’s music combines traditional Japanese elements with contemporary world folk sensibility. Her music delivers haunting piano ballads spanning subjects from love, life, spirituality and everything in between. In 2017, she began writing and performing songs with traditional east and west Asian instruments such as the tanbur and harmonium. As a result, her sound has taken an even more exotic folk sensibility, replete with the depth of spiritual expression. While her current performances mainly feature the tanbur for her vocals.

With the tanbur, she has honed her craft of using repetition in poetry and meter that leaves a magical impression on your heart. 

Lulla LayLa’s compositions and background spans across many genres, including: classical music, punk rock, experimental rock, musical theater, jazz, cabaret style, among others.

On several occasions audience members from different parts of the world have said to Lulla LayLa, “Your music is really original. Nothing is like yours. I don’t know why but it makes me nostalgic because it reminds me of the music of my home country”, even though she had not visited, nor was she familiar with traditional Norwegian, Colombian, Spanish, Greek or Hungarian music —to name a few places her music has been said to resemble.She could see the proof that the root of all cultures is one—you too may sense a familiarity within your DNA while listening to her compositions. She loves the idea of people coming together and celebrating folk sensibility and prayer through music.