Sascha Osborn is a London based contemporary folk storyteller whose songs blend warm, soulful vocals, jazz-infused harmonies and poetic lyricism. Inspired by people, places and lived experience, she crafts thoughtful narratives exploring connection, resilience, belonging and change with honesty, warmth and compassion.
Drawing on chance conversations, relationships, history and the world around her, she transforms everyday moments into songs that create space for reflection, connection and hope.
Her forthcoming collection of songs, Red, Black and Blue, reflects a deepening artistic voice and growing confidence in her distinctive blend of folk and jazz influences. Written during the Covid-19 lockdown as home-produced demo blueprints in Logic Pro, the songs were later developed with producer Patrick Wood and recorded with some of the UK's leading jazz musicians, transforming intimate sketches into richly textured arrangements that brought her ambitious sonic vision to life.
Exploring the marks life leaves on us, the bruises of love, loss, memory, grief and the quiet courage needed to move through change, the collection brings together stories of wartime childhood, family relationships, work pressures, environmental change, landscapes that inspire, love and the power of the words we speak. Blending warm harmonies, soulful melodic lines and poetic storytelling, Red, Black and Blue is rooted in lived experience and shaped by emotional honesty, compassion and hope.
Released as a series of individual songs, the collection invites listeners to spend time with each story as it unfolds, gradually revealing a broader exploration of identity, resilience, reflection and personal growth.
Half Complete
A a reflective, imagery-led song about hindsight and the clarity that comes with distance. Moving through scenes of mountain rain, open fields and distant church bells, it traces an inward journey shaped by memory and perspective. At its core is the realisation that signs were always there, small gestures and meaningful details that went unnoticed and unheard. Only with distance does the absence come into focus.
Time
This song traces the journey from silence, inertia, and fear building to empowerment and renewal. It’s about breaking free from societal expectations and “shoulds and coulds,” finding the courage to speak out, break barriers and glass ceilings. A call to say “enough is enough” and reclaim courage, self-belief, purpose, and freedom.
HALF COMPLETE
Is a reflective, imagery-led song about hindsight and the clarity that comes with distance. Understated and grounded, the song explores missed signals and the delayed recognition of what truly mattered, often only after it’s gone.
I was deeply drawn to move to this song, to physically express in response to the song I had created with producer Patrick Wood. Video directed filmed and produced by Lizzy Platt. Filmed at Pixel Studios, London.
COULD IT BE YOU
The first single from my debut album, 'Looking Out And After' which received airplay on BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Scotland, BBC Radio Suffolk and extremely positive acclaim.
Unusually for myself as a songwriter, the lyrics for 'Could It Be You' were written first, one lunch time sat on a bench overlooking the River Thames, inspired by the pocket book 'Lunch Poems' by Frank O'Hara. Thereafter I wrote the music, endeavouring to reflect the sense of uncertainty and hope that comes with new found love.
The video was filmed along the River Thames on a cold winter day, produced by Jason Frost.