Gaël Michael Evers is a singer-songwriter whose music carries the weight of lived experience and the lightness of hope. Born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and raised in South Africa, Gaël grew up between cultures, languages, and traditions, always searching for a voice that felt like home. For years, that voice came through drawing, painting, design, and storytelling. But it was music, the most vulnerable and unfiltered of all his creative outlets, that pulled him back to himself.
Now based in New York City, Gaël writes songs that are equal parts confession and conversation. His sound is rooted in the spirit of late ’60s and ’70s Soul and R&B, blended with the grit of Chicago Blues and the intimacy of Acoustic Rock. His lyrics linger on love, loss, and resilience, shaped by influences like Leonard Cohen, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Alabama Shakes, and D’Angelo. His music is raw, soulful, and melodic, carrying both vulnerability and strength.
Much of this honesty was born from personal upheaval. After his divorce, Gaël confronted the emptiness left behind and began the difficult work of rebuilding himself. That journey led him toward a straightedge life, not out of rigidity but out of a desire to be present, to meet each moment with clarity and intention.
For Gaël, music is also about home. “It’s not where you were born, it’s where you belong,” he says. He hurried to New York because he needed to get home. Yet home has never been simple. He has wrestled with identity crises and carries the paradox of being more American than anything else, while still restless, never able to belong to any place forever. That search, looking, finding, or building a home, runs through his songs and gives them both urgency and tenderness.
In every chord and verse, Gaël Michael Evers is writing his way back to himself and inviting us to do the same.
