Gia Koka is a songwriter, producer, and singer of soulful electropop who found work as a songwriter for hire while starting her own recording career. Born in Poland and raised in the Netherlands, Koka released her first album, Kissing the Outcast, under the name Natalia Jayden with Dutch label in 2012. While living in Hollywood, California and writing songs, she wrote and recorded an album dedicated to her younger brother, Dymitri, who had died unexpectedly. Titled Dymitri, the set of jazz-inflected adult contemporary R&B was released by Winter Boy Records in 2013. A series of collaborative singles in the realm of electronic pop and EDM followed, still marked by her soulful vocal delivery.