Dunia Shawty is a singer, composer, and sound artist who works with sound the way some people work with light ; shaping atmosphere, feeling, and memory. Raised in a creative family, she learned early that music could say what words couldn’t. Her relationship to sound deepened after her little cousin was diagnosed with autism, sparking a desire to understand how vibration, tone, and rhythm can soothe, ground, and create safety.

Dunia is currently studying Interdisciplinary Music Studies at Berklee College of Music, focusing on music therapy, composition, and how the brain experiences sound. She has performed at Denver’s Juneteenth Festival, led sound baths, and collaborated with visual artists to bring sound into installations across Manhattan and Brooklyn. She was also the first artist of the residency hosted by Love Machine based in Detroit.

Rooted in Black diasporic ways of listening, her work is whimsical, afrofuturistic, and deeply human, inviting people to slow down, feel, and remember themselves.