Alternative singer/songwriter Samia's often angsty indie rock songs combine easygoing hooks and vulnerable insights. After releasing her first tracks in 2017, she delivered her debut album, The Baby, in 2020. The relationship-themed Honey and its charting title track followed in 2023. Exploring the idea of personas versus authenticity, Samia's third LP, 2025's Bloodless, merged rustic acoustic, electronic, and rock instrumentation, often within the same song. A New York native, Samia Finnerty was writing songs and playing in bands and at open mikes by her mid-teens. The daughter of actress Kathy Najimy and actor/musician Dan Finnerty (the Dan Band), she also pursued acting, and as a 19-year-old in 2016, she appeared in the off-Broadway premiere of Sarah DeLappe's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play The Wolves. A guest spot on the Fox series Gotham followed in 2017. Continuing to work on her music, Samia released the guitar song "Welcome to Eden" later the same year, with fully arranged band tracks following over the course of 2018. In 2019, she toured with Cold War Kids, opened a show for Soccer Mommy, and played festivals including SXSW and Firefly. Compiling some of her prior releases, including "Someone Tell the Boys" and "The Night Josh Tillman Listened to My Song," her debut EP, Ode to Artifice, appeared that August. In the meantime, she released a handful of newly recorded covers, among them songs by Liz Phair and Daniel Johnston. Samia's full-length debut, The Baby, arrived on independent label Grand Jury in August 2020. Its production team included Caleb Wright (formerly Hinz), Lars Stalfors, and Hippo Campus' Jake Luppen and Nathan Stocker. The following January, The Baby Reimagined featured remixes and cover versions of the debut by artists like Field Medic, Palehound, and Bartees Strange. Samia herself then included a cover of When in Rome's "The Promise" featuring indie soul singer and rapper Jelani Aryeh on the follow-up EP, Scout, in August 2021. It was produced by Boone Wallace and Andy Seltzer (IAN SWEET, Chelsea Cutler). Samia shared concert bills with the likes of Lucy Dacus and Courtney Barnett on ensuing tours. Around this time, she relocated to Nashville. Working again with Wright, Samia next headed to Betty's, a North Carolina studio operated by frequent touring partners Sylvan Esso, to record Honey, her second album. Released on Grand Jury in January 2023, it featured appearances by musician friends like Christian Lee Hutson and Briston Maroney, and yielded a charting hit in its title track. After three years in Nashville, Samia moved to Minneapolis while releasing several non-album singles, including 2024's "Making Breakfast," and touring both as a headliner and in support of Bleachers. Her third album, April 2025's Bloodless, was another relationship-themed outing, but this time focused on the battle between forming personas and risking rejection by being oneself. A stylistically capricious set that merged everything from rustic acoustic components to sleek electronics and heavier rock, often within the same song, it was recorded with Wright and Luppen as well as Raffaella, with whom she toured later that year. - Biography by Marcy Donelson