Zéla is an ACE. She is a Filipino-American singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer and a model that started in the USA.
She’s been writing songs since she was younger, her genre is a mix of different musical styles because she likes challenging herself. Pursuing her music career as the first P-pop Soloist of AQ Prime Music. Zéla loves to share her crafts to inspire more people through her music.
In September 2023, she debuted with the single “Karma”. She was awarded as the Philippine Pop Top New Artist Of The Year, few months after she debuted. Been performing everywhere since then.
A year after, she released her 2nd single “Pogi Boy”. Followed by a comeback song “01/01” on her birthday as a gift for her fans.
She was given the opportunity of being the only PPop Soloist act to perform at the 1st Waterbomb Festival in Manila on 2025 of February.
After a month of hiatus, Zéla returns with her 1st Studio Album called “Lockhart.” The album contains 10 tracks and mostly written by her. She’s about to unleash her superpowers across the globe and make the world her stage.A Filipino-American singer, songwriter, rapper and dancer that started in the USA. Continuing her music career as Ppop Soloist. She will hit you with her strong uplifting debut single “Karma”, let’s all meet Zéla!
“ACE”
It was night time in February of 2025, I was having a conversation with a friend at a cafe. He called me an ACE because he said I can do almost everything. So it started there, I tried to remember all the compliments that I got from other people and put them altogether in a song. I wanted to Activate Confidence to Empower other people through my song because everyone is an ACE in their own way.
“ARANGKADA”
This song was the first one I’ve heard from EC. At first I was like “hmm Tagalog, what is this song about? Haha” I really like the beats, it’s kinda different from the music that I grew up with but it’s very refreshing. EC was nice enough to let me change some lyrics as well because I couldn’t pronounce some of the words properly.
“01/01”
I wrote this after pandemic, I was getting a lot of negativity during those times to the point that I wanted to prove myself to everybody. Then I came up with this song and decided to release it on my birthday that’s why it’s called 01/01 because my birthday is January 1 and also number 1 is the monthsary of Zélors (my fandom name). It was a gift for them.
“Z.L”
Z.L means Zone Leader but it could also mean ZéLa and Zélor. Because I was doing TikTok live last March (2025) when I wrote the 1st verse on the spot with Zélors. I asked them if they could give me any words that I can write a song into and someone said Z.L and Zone Leader. And then boom I tried to finish the song the next day. It’s a leader’s pov and a women empowerment song, that’s why there’s some lyrics there saying “HER is leader” because I’m a woman myself.
“G.O.A.T”
I was furious when I wrote this song. I felt like everyone was trying to pull me down to the point that it was affecting my career. I tried to write everything down for me to cool down. I’ve also wanted to be a rockstar as a kid that’s why I made this one a rock version. And rock genre went so well with what I was feeling that time. I was “unleashing my wrath”.
“PARAISO”
Hesitant, that’s how I felt after EC explained to me the meaning of the lyrics. The lyrics are about someone’s pov saying that she’s a paradise and then I thought “wait, isn’t this kinda sound arrogant if I sing it? People might think I’m so full of myself” but as the time goes by it starts to grow on me . I also love how the beats are just simple and magical at the same time. It makes you feel like in a paradise.
“CHAOS”
Writing this song was chaos. I was just in a mood to write a unique topic. It was my first time to write a not so love song lyrics with the help of Jo. He wrote some of the lyrics and he’s the featured artist in this song. The song is about a playboy who happens to fall in love with a female alpha.
“BABABA”
This song is also in full Filipino and EC explained the meaning of it. I had a hard time singing this song because there’s a lot of “bababa” words that it got me so confused. But it’s very catchy and a good song to listen to while driving or traveling.
“HANAP KA NALANG NG IBA”
EC wrote this song, and I thought it was gonna be the easiest song from him. But I was wrong, I couldn’t get the timing right on the post hook part, it took me a few hours to hit the right timing. But I really had fun recording it. I love the beats and vibe that it’s giving me
“LEAVE ME”
This song is very personal to me, I was having a mental breakdown while I was writing it. All the bad things that people have told and called me got into my head that I started to believe them. I knew myself better than anyone else but that time was too much. I thought maybe I was becoming someone I’m not because that’s what everyone is calling me or wants me to become. It took me hours to record this song because I couldn’t stop crying but thankfully I got to finish it with the help of Coach Karl.
