Sonas is an eclectic music band combining progressive electro sound with groovy rhythmic section and catchy melodic vocal lines. Sonas appreciates different cultures. That love is reflected in the fusion of sound (modern & ancient, east & west) and the multilingual expression in songs. Although English language prevails, texts were written in Arabic, Spanish and Serbian. Currently they are working on the album and some of the songs were performed live in Zelenkovac Jazz Fest in Bosnia in July 2022, Nefestik Music Festival in Czech Republic (June 2023) and Pilsen-Czech Republic (June 2023), Jazzaland Festival in Temerin Serbia (July 2023), Nisville Jazz Festival, Serbia (August 2023), Petrovac Jazz Festival Montenegro (September 2023), Changeover Music Showcase Festival, Belgrade Serbia (October 2023), NS ALT Festival – SKCNS Fabrika Novi Sad Serbia (December 2023), Lent Maribor Slovenia (June 2024), Acoteia Rooftop Festival Faro Portugal (July 2024), City Square Concert Valjevo Serbia (August 2024), Zelenkovac Jazz Festival (August 2024).
Band members:
Sara Vuletic: lead singer and songwriter of Sonas, unique for singing in different languages and trained in popular music singing by renowned musician Madam Piano, currently undertaking a 5-year ancient Byzantine chanting program. Involved in music projects as a soloist since a teenager including co-author music collaboration with Vladimir Puhalac, who is a Norway based composer, performing in Serbia, region and Norway. She holds BA in Arabic language and literature and masters in cultural policy and management from Lyon 2 University France. She lived in Oman and Dubai for 10 years working in the field of language, art and culture. She is also program director of Novi Sad European Capital of Culture, curating music program with the team; including participation at the music conference panels as expert speaker at Pin Music Conference Skopje (2021, 2022, 2023), Budapest Ritmo Conference (2022), Changeover Festival Belgrade (2022,23), delegate at Ment Ljubljana (2023,2024).
Nebojsa Aradski: His musical journey begins at 7 years old when he starts with violin, however a few years later he falls in love with rock and metal music and discovers drums. He is one of the founders of the Flashback band, later called Simboli (Symbols) which performs covers of greatest rock and pop hits. They had over 300 concerts across Serbia. Alongside, his interest in electronic music becomes deeper where he experiments as composer, arranger and lyricist. He has been doing studio work as an engineer and producer as well as composer, arranger and musician on many albums and singles of domestic bands and artists. During the 2015. he founds a band called "Severe" which peforms only their own compositions and can stylistically be described as modern metal music. They are currently recording their first album. From 2024 he plays with Sonas. His mentor is Branko Popovic, winner of Zildijan Avedis award in Berklee College of Music.