Daya AMAs 2015 Westwood One Backstage

Daya began playing piano at the age of three. She switched from classical to jazz at eleven, while picking up guitar, ukulele, saxophone, and flute along the way. While at the Accelerando Music Conservatory, platinum songwriter and producer Gino Barletta JoJo, Miranda Cosgrove, Jessica Mauboy heard Daya sing and collaborated with her over the following years, until recently inviting her to Los Angeles for a writing session in February 2015. Building off of her formal training and curiosity of the pop musi