Elenna Canlas is based on Lenape and Canarsie lands in New York City and has become a positive force in music culture through over a decade of touring and recording across the globe’s renowned stages and studios as a keyboardist, synthesist, percussionist, vocalist, music director, and producer supporting a multitude of artists and bands including Allison Russell, treya lam, Lollise, Cochemea, Xenia Rubinos, Miles Francis, Kirsty Rock, Sinkane, Underground System, and Easy Star All-Stars. As a facilitator and organizer, Elenna was a Steering Wheel member of the former Brooklyn-based grassroots organization Sound Mind Collective and the co-founder of Womxn Musicians Forum, both independent artist-driven circles that aimed to cultivate movement and growth through community. As an artist and collaborator, she channels her creative vision as Lupa. A testament to life through the portals of grief, joy, memory, and presence, Lupa draws influences from electro & psychedelic funk, global roots & folk, to alt-pop and R&B, and its atmosphere weaves layers of lush and quirky vocals over a deep heavy foundation, builds sonic altars and landscapes inspired by natural forces and kin, and centers its dynamic universe in the celebration of revolution and kapwa.