For Keya Kass, the past year has been a deeply personal one, and much of what she has experienced has found its way into her music. With five singles released this year, Kass has been using songwriting to process different emotions, experiences and moments in her life, turning them into something listeners can connect with.
Her latest release, “Dekhta Raha,” comes from a particularly personal place.
The song explores the experience of watching people closest to you see you go through pain and choosing not to stop it. It is about the kind of hurt that becomes even more complicated when the people you expected to understand you simply stand by and watch.
For Kass, the subject wasn’t something she approached from a distance.
She had been going through a lot personally, and songwriting became the natural way for her to process what she was experiencing.
“When it comes to creating art, that’s how I express myself,” she says. “There are things I may not always be able to explain, but I can put them into a song.”
That emotional honesty is what gives “Dekhta Raha” its soul.
For Kass, the songwriting process wasn’t about simply creating a song around a concept. It was about allowing the emotions behind the experience to shape the writing itself.
The words had to carry the weight of what she was feeling.
The vulnerability had to remain intact.
And the song needed to sound like an experience rather than an explanation of one.
That has increasingly become a defining part of Kass’s approach to music.
Her releases this year have each been shaped by something she was personally experiencing at the time. Rather than keeping those experiences separate from her creative life, she has been moulding them into music and giving them a life beyond herself.
“All my releases this year have been about taking everything I was going through and moulding it into something that other people can connect with,” she explains.
That perspective also changes the way she looks at vulnerability.
For Kass, talking about pain isn’t necessarily about staying attached to it. There can be liberation in giving something that has affected you a name, a melody and a place outside of yourself.
That is particularly evident in “Dekhta Raha.”
The song may have originated from a deeply personal experience, but once it became music, it stopped belonging only to her.
It became something a listener could interpret through their own experiences — whether that meant feeling unseen, being hurt by someone they trusted or realizing that people they expected to stand beside them had simply watched.
This ability to transform personal experiences into something universal has become central to Kass’s artistic identity.
And songwriting sits at the centre of that process.
While production, visuals and performance all contribute to how a song reaches an audience, Kass sees songwriting as the place where its emotional identity is formed.
It is where the story begins.
It is where the experience becomes language.
And ultimately, it is where the soul of the song comes from.
With five singles released this year and more music already in the works, Kass is developing a catalogue that reflects a particularly personal chapter of her life — one experience, one emotion and one story at a time.
“Dekhta Raha” is the latest expression of that journey.
And as Kass looks ahead to more releases and a bigger visual chapter beginning in 2027, one thing remains consistent: she continues to turn what life gives her into something people can hear, feel and perhaps recognize as their own.