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 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 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, with story-telling and world building that blends reality with superstition and folklore, creating an experience that steps far outside the conventional structure of modern pop music and brings you into a universe entirely Zara Moon.

Her sound combines elements of folk, death rock, goth, industrial, punk, and hip hop, with influences ranging from Steve Earle, Richie Havens and Tori Amos, and Nine Inch Nails. It’s a passionate and immediate slap in the face with one of the most unique voices currently working in music.

She's debuting her breakout LP October 31, 2026, titled Appalachian Scumbag.