The whole operation

From a mall CD booth to Billboard, on her own terms.

At the age of 12, Meresha recorded "Fool Don't Be" in a CD booth at a mall. By 15, the singer and multi-instrumentalist had uprooted her family from Warsaw, Poland, and headed for Florida. For her first EP, Lunatic, funded by fans on Kickstarter, she wrote, sang, produced and played all the instruments. While her deep, soulful voice recalled a young Annie Lennox or Katy Perry, her quirky sonic vision drew comparisons to Björk and Lorde. By the following year she had a following on social media and airplay for "New Revolution," which slotted into the Billboard Top 40 between Adele and Justin Bieber and went number one on US indie pop radio. In 2015 she released a like-titled EP with a forward-thinking pop vibe that carried into 2016 with "My Love Has Come" and "Together"/"Juntos," and into a place in House of Blues' national class of emerging artists.

The Enter the Dreamland EP followed in 2017, debuting on Billboard's Heatseekers chart and landing on AllMusic's 20 best albums of the year; that July, Billboard's Next Big Sound ranked her the third biggest emerging artist in the world, and she played SunFest to a crowd of 40,000.

What followed was less a career arc than a one-woman release system. "Violet Night" (2018) and "Olivia" charted on Billboard's Dance/Electronic list, "Is This Love" (2019) was cut for Movember, and she turned up at Governors Ball the same year, with rooms like Hotel Café in Hollywood, the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn and Nublu, more than once, along the way. Look How Far (2020) and In Bloom (2021) came out of a bedroom studio in a period when the festival circuit had stopped existing, and "Trouble" (2022) got her called "an exciting and otherworldly talent" by Extra TV. Somewhere in there she named her own genre, #AlienPop, studied production at Berklee, joined the Recording Academy, made records with Joe Chiccarelli, sent masters to Emily Lazar and Simon Heyworth, and made things for Adobe and Crocs. She has released music in English, Spanish and Japanese and performed in Polish, has shared stages with Marshmello, Jon Bellion, Third Eye Blind and Adam Lambert, and has never handed the vocal stacks to anybody.

By 2026 she was writing between New York and Berlin, a commute that produced "Berlin Summer" in June and "Good Things" five weeks later: neon, club-leaning, and still unmistakably hers. Thirty-seven million plays in, she remains the whole operation.