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. She is a facilitator for OneBeat, a cultural exchange fellowship run by Found Sound Nation, and is an alumna of their 2022 OneBeat Sahara cultural exchange fellowship alongside musician culture bearers from the USA and the Maghreb and Sahel regions of North Africa. Elenna was also 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 & 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.