Arca

Arca is one of those artists who makes you feel like you've never actually heard music before — in the best possible way. Born in Caracas and shaped by NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Alejandra Ghersi built a reputation as a producer's producer before most people even knew her name, crafting the unsettling, alien textures behind Kanye West's Yeezus and FKA twigs' LP1. But her own solo work is where things get genuinely breathtaking: records like Mutant and Kick i feel like dispatches from some future body that hasn't been invented yet. She's transgender, unapologetically herself, and her art reflects that total refusal to stay inside any box. Collaborating with Bjork cemented her legend, but honestly her own catalog is where I keep coming back.

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Name (English)

Arca

Name (Japanese)

アルカ

Reading

あるか

Born

October 14, 1989 (age 37)

Origin

Caracas, Venezuela

Occupation

composer / singer / songwriter / DJ producer / recording artist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Snake

University

New York University Tisch School of the Arts

• Official sitehttps://arca1000000.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/arca1000000/
• Xhttps://x.com/arca1000000
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arca%20(musician)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AB%20(%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16149863

Tags

• composer
• singer
• songwriter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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