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ABOUT SKAIVI

The Dragon Origins 

Skaivi has always been a natural musician, as proven by her being the loudest baby in the whole hospital on the day of her birth. Clearly, she already felt like showing off her voice! And as soon as she was able to talk and walk, she was constantly dancing and singing, making up her own choreography and melodies. Skaivi's very first musical loves were songs like "Barbie Girl" by Aqua, "Wild Dances" by Ruslana, and "Everytime We Touch" by Cascada...although in 2008, one artist debuted and really caught Skaivi's attention, encouraging her to embrace artistic drama, high fashion, and everything weird in the best way. That artist is Lady Gaga. Around a similar time, Skaivi also started paying attention to Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana as well. Those two pop divas together inspired her to want to become a real, dazzling musician at such a young age. Her mother was supportive from the very beginning, actively submitting her for various happenings such as online auditions (Disney, Kidz Bop, etc.), model scouting, and uploading her singing videos to YouTube. 

Skaivi's early life is also where she physically spent time in her heritage homelands. She went to Poland and Slovakia twice in the first few years of her life, with her spending a short period of time actually living in Poland for around seven months the first visit. That is likely a big factor in why Polish tended to always be understood pretty naturally by her as a language for the most part. Other than familial matters, Skaivi at her truest self was very open and outgoing from the beginning. She was the type of child to go up to someone herself--no matter how young or how old--immediately striking up a conversation and asking if they want to be her friend. Even the local postman often got an excited greeting from her. 

Kingdom of Skaivi Middle Ages

When Skaivi was still in public school up until the middle of sixth grade, she joined her school's orchestra band when she was old enough. To join, she had to take the Selmer Music Guidance Survey, of which she was only one point away from getting a perfect score. With that, she was the second-highest-scoring student in her fifth grade overall. She started on clarinet initially before switching to percussion. She quickly caught up with the other percussionists as a fast learner and thrived in that section of the band, sometimes being given special roles like playing a gong during a performance. Although, her favorite instrument to play was the snare drum.

 

After she started homeschooling, she got a lot more freedom in her musical education and creativity in general. On her own, she was drawn to songwriting at first, being inspired by artists like rapper Tyler Joseph and her own lyricist mother at age 13. She also started self-teaching proper singing, eventually ending up spending her summer as a 14-year-old with a professional opera teacher and doing home lessons. That is where she learned some real technique and a proper base for singing when she continued to self-teach vocals.  On top of that, she self-taught herself acoustic guitar and ukulele during that period.

 

Along with diving into learning more about music, this was also the time when Skaivi wanted to give a legitimate music career a try. It didn't work out, as she found that other producers and co-writers could not capture the exact vision she wanted, so she put her career on hold for a few years. But this experience planted seeds for a future music career later down the line, and allowed her to figure out what she really wanted from herself and as an artist professionally. 

Skaivi's Modern Realm (2020-present)

Skaivi's late teens and early 20s have been, by far, the most creatively fulfilling times of her life. As an older teenager, she was teaching herself the electric piano and electric guitar. In piano, she was already able to accurately play pieces in the intermediate level by herself within the first few months. She would sometimes use the piano to write songs as well. This period is also around the time when she started to dive into music production on her iPhone SE using the GarageBand mobile app when she was 17. Skaivi had already naturally felt a pull towards music production for a few years at that point, but she finally gathered the bravery to give it a try after witnessing and studying fellow musician Grimes' journey in her own music production. With Grimes' work (and Grimes as a person) greatly impacting Skaivi and empowering her to act on her dreams, she listened to her heart and opened up the GarageBand app. She found out right away that she not only really enjoyed the process of producing a song, but she even had quite the knack for production. Other people she showed her creations to confirmed it for her even more. Skaivi continued to craft songs of all kinds on the app while growing her confidence in music creation. It was after that experience that she knew she found her biggest calling in life.

​Following Skaivi's GarageBand adventure, her family decided to fund her purchase of a MacBook Pro in late 2021. Skaivi jumped over to Logic Pro and immediately became best friends with the DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), finding it to be the perfect fit for her. Since she already created many songs on her phone, she adjusted very quickly to Logic and continued to produce music as normal, excited that the possibilities were endless with a real laptop workstation. Her first professional release on streaming services was "Mystic" (2022), which she then created an official version of on Logic based on an earlier demo she made on GarageBand. Later on in 2023, Skaivi released her first song with her vocals on it titled "Selene Of The Night," based on the Greek moon goddess Selene. Needing to become her own recording engineer, she figured out a DIY setup of recording the song on her bed and underneath the blankets. A couple years after release, this track got recognized in August 2025 by the Recording Academy, with their editorial team selecting it for their monthly GRAMMY U mixtape under the theme "Blockbuster Beats." 

While Skaivi has been artistically thriving this decade so far, it also has to be made clear that she has shown to be made of steel. Along with being born with HSD (Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder), since 2020 she has had various physical circumstances come and go around multiple areas of her body. There are some particular things she has been dealing with and healing the past few years. For example, in late 2023, she had gotten hospitalized out of nowhere and received a diagnosis of a dysautonomic issue. This flipped her life around and triggered a replanning of her music career and priorities. While that was a tense event for her, what also followed was at least a detour to the rather positive (even if messy) path of finding her inner child again, who she really is, and healing emotional matters such as trauma. Part of her healing journey has, of course, been songwriting. She wrote and produced the song "Go Forth, Raven" (2024) as a response to the lessons and spirituality she had learned so far on her path to recovery. The song is a blend of hopeful lyrics about realization and a dark sonic atmosphere, very much describing her frame of mind at the time of creation. In 2026, Skaivi has been taking things easier and continuing the path she got put on, while still lovingly producing music and holding a knowing that there's a lot of good waiting for her. Optimism and letting things flow has been the key to Skaivi's peace in recent times. While she is still working things out, she absolutely has plans to eventually perform and travel. And much, much more too. How else will the Skaivi empire be built? That's why Skaivi stays resilient through it all. 

Skaivi's Style & Creative Philosophy

Authenticity and duality are the concepts in which Skaivi leads her life by. Whether in her creative endeavors, or emotionally, or just in her life as a whole, she always embraces the fluidity of the human experience and enjoys mixing different elements together. She also embraces all the fun, weird parts of life as well, because things would get boring if it weren't for some nice oddities sometimes. Staying curious and open, truly you, and loving fully with passion is the idea Skaivi always strives to stick by. All of that philosophy is then what deeply fuels Skaivi's music. She doesn't believe you have to stick to one way of being, and it shows in her discography. She has electronica, darkwave, and techno, plus more on the way; her style is everything from edgy and dark to sweet and light. She'll gladly mix those two feelings together into one song as well, keeping her signature magical, mystical production touches, theatricality, and ornate lyricism as the glue that holds everything together. 

Family's Musical Background

Skaivi isn't the only one in her lineage who has a lot of zeal for music. Her mother Dorota Rogała (often going by Dorota Luiza or Dorothy Louise professionally) has been involved with music from a young age herself. As a child, she was enrolled in a music school in Stalowa Wola, Poland, training in classical piano and music theory from ages 8-14. She had a great talent for the instrument and was considered gifted. As a fun add-on, Dorota's audition song that she sang for the school was "Czerwone Jagody." Dorota also dove into writing lyrics later on in life, writing songs like "The Moon Wants To Sleep," which was Skaivi's favorite. Then there's Skaivi's grandfather Jan Rogała, who is a multi-instrumentalist that taught himself acoustic and electric guitar, piano, and the flute. His house had a room full of various musical equipment like instruments and microphones, which definitely helped encourage Dorota's music journey too. He often gigged with other musicians who were coming over for sessions and even almost created a band. Although the band did not happen, he continued to play by himself over the years. And Jan's wife (Skaivi's grandmother), Ewa Hausner, always had a large creative talent as well. Along with being a visual artist that sculpted and painted and who attended a prestigious art school in Zamość, she had a voiced deemed as magnificent by those around her. After hearing her vocals when singing tracks like Czesław Niemen's "Dziwny jest ten świat," Ewa had people pulling her to the local Dom Kultury in Stalowa Wola because they wanted her to use her voice and shine. Another strong lady sharing a gorgeous voice is Skaivi's great-grandmother (Ewa's mother) Janina Wojtyło. She would often sing songs by Mazowsze or Kiepura while cooking, and the neighbors asked her if she was playing vinyl records. 

Wizard Trivia
  • Favorite album: Fryslân by Joost Klein (honorable mentions include Art Angels by Grimes and The Fame Monster by Lady Gaga)

  • Favorite TV shows: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Steven UniverseSpongeBob SquarePants, and Victorious

  • Favorite movies: Tangled, Howl's Moving CastleMean Girls, and Anne of Green Gables

  • Favorite book: The Kyoshi duology

  • Other interests include: Acting, dancing, visual art, fashion, ancient Egypt, language learning, stationary supplies, learning about other cultures, spirituality, astrology, psychology, philosophy, organization, cute things in general

  • ​Favorite Polish food: Pierogi, naleśniki, gołąbki, kapusta z grochem, barszcz czerwony z uszkami, sałatka jarzynowa, zapiekanki

  • Favorite Polish treats: Sernik, pączki, makowiec, pierniki toruńskie, babka

  • Favorite Slovak treat: Medovníky

  • Other favorite foods: Pizza (topped with mushrooms, green pepper, and spinach), pasta, zucchini pancakes, tamari air-fried tofu, milk and cereal, sandwiches (especially eggy-bread fried cheese), salads (especially caesar), tortilla chips & guacamole

  • Favorite childhood games: Diner Dash, Virtual Families, Club Penguin, and Stardoll 

  • Favorite childhood TV shows: Little Bear, Max & Ruby, Maggie and the Ferocious Beast, Arthur, Dragon Tales, Dragon Ball Z Kai, Charlie & Lola, OswaldDora the Explorer, and Caillou

  • Favorite childhood Polish shows: Reksio, Miś Uszatek, and Pszczółka Maja

  • Favorite childhood movies: The Game Plan, Enchanted, The Princess Dairies, Aristocats, Underdog, Tinkerbell, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua

  • Western zodiac: Pisces Sun, Cancer Moon, Taurus Ascendant

  • Sidereal/Vedic zodiac: Purva Bhadra Sun, Ardra Moon, Bharani Ascendant

© 2022-2026 Skaivi.

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