Aurelia Dey is a multi-artist who performs Afrobeats, Reggae, Dancehall and Nordic & Ghanaian traditional music, acts and choreographs. Aurelia creates awareness around diversity and inclusion and explores the intersectionality of art forms, including her Ghanaian heritage. She leads and implements cross-genre projects in the storytelling tradition with drama, music, dance and urgent messages.
When she is not making music or leading projects, she writes play scripts, choreographs and acts. She has toured Ghana, Zimbabwe and South Africa and won awards such as “Best Female Artist” and “Best Stage Artist” at the Scandinavian Afrobeats Music Awards. Aurelia can be heard in, among other things, the band Sallyswag and has debuted as a playwright at Angereds Teater in the play VOICE, which she also acts in. She has acted in plays such as “Woza Albert!” at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Vällingby December 2019, the monologue “random” by debbie tucker greene at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Husby/Kilen 2022 and choreographed “Den omättliga vägen” at Dramaten 2022. Aurelia runs the dance course The Dancehall College in Gothenburg for adult women and non-binary.