Following the success of her self-released David Bowie cover "Heroes", Sarasara moved to the UK to work on her first extended play (EP) in collaboration with Matthew Herbert.
Sarasara subsequently released her debut studio album, Amor Fati in November 2016 to critical acclaim, being featured in The Guardian's Future 50 rising music stars to look out for,[1] Clash magazine,[2] Rolling Stone[3] and Tsugi.
[4] Her work has been likened to Björk, Kelela, Aaliyah and Aphex Twin, drawing on various genres including electronic music, trip hop, rhythm & blues, industrial and avant-garde.
In an interview for The 405, an online magazine, the singer explained that "in order to change one’s fate, one has to work instinctively – finding the willpower in their consciousness by listening to their body".
The Guardian profiled Sarasara for its "New Band of the Week"[6] feature, describing her as “... [a]ll cute breathy vocal-sighs and crashing dissonance, her music is what might have happened had Petite Meller signed to 90s Warp, or the next (il)logical step after the likes of FKA twigs, Kelela and SZA: a sort of industrial-strength R&B; Aaliyah meets Aphex Twin”.
Her cinematic ambitions were shaped by artists such as David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Maya Daren, Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino, and Robert Rodriguez.
[12] Sarasara's passion and love of antique sculptures drew her to Bernadine, renowned for his background in fashion and the playfulness with which his work portrays the female body.
It features a 2D animation based on Sarasara's face and illustrative of her character, inspired by photographer Richard Avedon's famous portrait of Audrey Hepburn and the popular Greek mythological creature Medusa.
The video for Sun was shot in collaboration with Belgian filmmaker Gust Van den Berghe (Little Baby Jesus of Flandr, Blue Bird, Lucifer[13]) on a prototype camera called a Tondoscope.
[14] The camera was invented by Van den Berghe for his film "Lucifer", and incorporates the lens within a glass tube so as to capture images in 360 degree, producing a circular canvas.
The video for Love was directed, shot and edited by Sarasara in collaboration with British filmmaker Nikolai Galitzine Yurievitch[15] (Iris, Dear Child, From the Mountain).
Recorded in the Sculpture Chamber of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, the album includes multiple influences such as gospel, soul, rap, opera and beatbox.
Taking three years to complete, it was an intimately personal record that tells several stories: In May 2020, Sarasara was featured in the Visual Collaborative electronic catalog under the Amplified series, where she was interviewed alongside other creatives from around the world.
She went on to complete a master's degree in the History of Hedonism from pre-Socratic times to the present day, and found herself particularly drawn to the philosophical movements of Atomism, Stoicism, Epicureanism and Vitalism, Utilitarianism, and Naturalism.
Her philosophical influences include Lucretius, Marcus Aurelius, Epicurus, Michel de Montaigne, Søren Kierkegaard, Jeremy Bentham, Voltaire, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Hannah Arendt, Jung, and Wilhelm Reich.
She has referred to Yogananda Paramahansa's Autobiography of a Yogi as "a life changing book", and has been profoundly influenced by the spiritual masters Swami Kriyananda, Asha Nayaswami, and Sadhguru.