Lyra Pramuk
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- Singer
- songwriter
- performance artist
- Bedroom Community
- !K7 Music
- Pop.soil
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| Born | September 20, 1990 |
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| Instrument | Vocals |
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Lyra Pramuk (born September 20, 1990) is an American singer, songwriter and performance artist.
Pramuk grew up in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.[1] As a young adult, she performed on stage in church choirs, orchestras, and with musical theater groups.[1] Pramuk, who grew up as a boy, said she didn't feel the need to "come out as a gay man" because "it was dangerous to be different."[2][3] Pramuk moved to Rochester, New York, where she attended the Eastman School of Music and participated in a program that required her to complete daily vocal exercises in six different languages.[1] During her studies, she spent several periods abroad in Berlin, where she made contacts with various musicians and artists and became acquainted with the city's techno scene.[1]
Career
After graduating from Eastman, Pramuk moved to Berlin in 2013 and released her first vocal pieces via Bandcamp.[1] She collaborated with sound artists such as Holly Herndon and Colin Self and attended artist-in-residence programs in Tokyo and Stockholm.[1] At this time, Pramuk also publicly came out as transgender, which she documented thoroughly on her Instagram channel.[1]
In 2020, Pramuk's debut studio album, Fountain, was released on the Icelandic label Bedroom Community. The remix album Delta followed in 2021,[4][5] featuring reworkings of her tracks by Valgeir Sigurðsson, Colin Self, Hudson Mohawke, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Caterina Barbieri, Eris Drew, Ben Frost, Gabber Modus Operandi, and Tygapaw.[6] Her second studio album, Hymnal, was released in 2025 on the German label 7k!.[7]
Pramuk teaches "Experiments in the Future of Performance" at NYU Berlin.[8]
