XEXA is a Portuguese composer, vocalist and sound artist of São Tomé e Príncipe ancestry based in London. She graduated in Jewellery from António Arroio, Lisbon and Sonic Arts from Guildhall School Of Music and Drama, London. XEXA released her gorgeous debut LP ‘Vibrações de Prata’ in 2023 on Príncipe and has composed music for the British Music Collection, CMMAS, Lagos Art Biennale, Culturgest and ModaLisboa. Her live concerts in Europe have included Berghain Halle, The White Hotel, Nuits Sonores Brussels, Sónar Lisboa, Milan Design Week, Casa del Jazz Roma, Kelman Duran's residency at Cafe Oto, and Primavera Sound Barcelona. In Seoul, in 2024, she had a three-day residency performing immersed in a transfixional installation at Kia's exhibition “Opposites United: Intersections Beyond Boundaries” at SPACE S1. In Lisbon, in 2025, she presented the sound installation ‘Síncopes’ at CAM Gulbenkian, based on a collective creation project with researcher and sociologist Cristina Roldão, and stage director and actress Zia Soares. The project and piece were inspired by black women who lived (in) the city of Lisbon in the early 20th century. The new album ‘Kissom’ was released late 2025, "a brilliant, unexpected tilt into writhing, syrupy kizomba rhythms and smudged, vaulted chamber music, uncannily comparable to something like Arthur Russell or This Mortal Coil, supplying genuine WTAF moments of ingenuity throughout = fully our thing. A definitive AOTY shortlister.​" Boomkat dixit