Los Angeles-based performance artist Zara Moon is a tour-de-force vocalist, producer, and self-proclaimed hillbilly with a lot to say. Hailing from the mountains of East Tennessee and humble trailer park beginnings, she overcame her socioeconomic situation through stripping and sex work to earn a BFA from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where she studied film and performance art. Zara spent much of that time during her academic career writing and performing a darker brand of Americana with the alt-folk trio The Biscuitheads, with the raspy and energetic folk vocalist Burton Richard Knight and guitarist Samuel Harding. In 2017 she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her solo career in music.

Zara’s songs experiment with passionate vignettes of life in rural Appalachia. She’s unafraid to show the underbelly of her own experiences, with tenacious, raw moments of pain and reverence that highlight the complex beauty of mountain life. Her vocal range lends to showing the many facades of these topics, while her story-telling blends reality with superstition and folk tradition, creating an experience that steps far outside the conventional structure of modern pop music and brings you into an entire world that is Zara Moon.

Her sound is a strange assemblage of folk, rock, goth, industrial, metal, and hip hop, with influences ranging from Steve Earle and Richie Havens, to Nine Inch Nails and EYEHATEGOD. It's unpretentious, passionate, and immediate, slapping you in the face with one of the most unique voices currently working in music.

She's debuting her breakout LP August 2026, titled Appalachian Scumbag.