Sariyah Idan (fka Saria Young) grew up in Ulster County dancing and singing with The Vanaver Caravan. She is now a New Orleans-based independent singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet, dancer, and educator. Jazz and folk trained, hip-hop educated, and influenced by both Latinx/Caribbean sounds and her Jewish roots, she has an "ability to seamlessly combine a wide variety of disparate styles and sonics into a memorable sound all her own," (Tinnitist).