Saya Gray

Saya Gray (born 1995) is a Canadian musician. She has four albums or EPs, starting with her debut in 2022.

Early life Gray was born in 1995 and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, growing up in the Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto. Her mother is the founder of the Discovery Through the Arts music school in Toronto. She is of Japanese-Canadian descent. jazz trumpet player who studied at the Berklee College of Music. At the age of eighteen, Gray was a music teacher and a member of the Quincy Bullen Band. After dropping out of high school in order to take night classes instead, she moved to London in the United Kingdom at the age of nineteen.

Her second album, Saya, was released on 21 February 2025. She received a Juno Award nomination for Breakthrough Artist or Group of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2026, and Saya was nominated for Alternative Album of the Year.

She appeared on Charlotte Day Wilson's 2026 album Patchwork, performing on the song "Lean". The song was shortlisted for the 2026 SOCAN Polaris Song Prize.

Personal life Gray has lived in Toronto, Japan and the United Kingdom.