Instrumentalist and throat singer, born in California in 1971, now based in both Oregon and the Tuvan Republic (Russia).
Soriah is the stage persona for Enrique Ugalde. Soriah’s craft is a blending of traditional Khöömei (Tuvan Throat Singing), tempered with Soriah’s own visceral force.
Soriah’s use of Khöömei as a transportive medium is an offering to nature in her own tongue, that of organic sound whether it be wind, water or the mimicry of animal