Emerging from Miami’s eclectic creative scene comes a new cinematic voice in dream-pop: Micayla Shafran, a burgeoning singer-songwriter whose self-produced debut single “Eurydice (Be My Light)” establishes her as an artist who is playing with the intersection of beauty, emotion, and narrative until something exquisite and unnerving is born. With lush strings, gentle orchestration, and vocals that are both engrossing and fantastical, Micayla brings the ancient story to life with a modern understanding of what it means to long, love, and shine.
Grounded in the tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice, the song wrestles with love existing simultaneously in two worlds, the living world and the land of the lost, the tangible and the eternal. Rather than retelling the myth verbatim, Micayla crafts a modern love tale around it, a cinematic dream where two souls fight through darkness to find one another again. If it's your kind of song, you could imagine being a part of it; it feels more handwritten than manufactured, essentially living up to a genre as part of some rainy-window playlist or possibly a song for a night drive, or a reflection you didn't expect to have.
"Eurydice (Be My Light)" combines the warm sound of chamber-pop with a softer style of dream-pop. Soft strings drift like a film score, filling her voice with emotional heft, while her melodies land with that otherworldly romanticism shared by catalogers like Lana Del Rey and Florence + The Machine. It’s a sound that feels nostalgic, tender, and visually reflective, a moment occurring in a dream or spilling from the pages of a well-loved novel, as if the music were itself the scene illuminated by candlelight.
Micayla finds ways to lean into imagery, symbolism, and poetic comparative contrasts. Lines such as, “Walking straight through Hell with me / Orpheus and Eurydice” pull the listener into a world in which devotion does not wane; it is steadfast and strong. It is not just another "love song." It is a plea. A promise. A prayer, whispered between two souls so frightened to ever face the unknown of losing one another again. Throughout the verses, Micayla grapples with the emotional toll of a fierce love amid a world in which nothing is guaranteed.
Micayla’s artistic journey did not form completely overnight. Born in New York City and raised in the Hudson Valley before moving to Miami, she was raised in the performing arts and ultimately found the poise and perspective to hone her voice and vision through the University of Miami. During her time there, she began to cultivate her distinctive sound, whose cinematic dream-pop elements often reference mythology and other characteristics of angst focused on vintage-feeling emotiveness. Her influences of old films, handwritten letters, love stories, and classic storytelling inspired the aesthetics of the music she creates today.
" Eurydice (Be My Light)" is her first official offering to the world. Importantly, it does not appear as though it will simply fade away. Micayla is not simply a trend artist; she is creating something with a narrative and intention. Meanwhile, her music is for those listeners who crave beauty, vulnerability, surrender, emotional truth-telling, and escape.
If this is where things begin, Micayla Shafran is building a world where love conquers darkness, memories live beyond time, and music also serves as a lighthouse. With a stunning cinematic sound, a supple poetic voice, and unapologetic authenticity, she is already demonstrably an artist in the making.