For sisters Keisha, Fiona, and Fiorella Sanchez, music is something that has always been a part of their lives. “We come from a family of musicians on both sides,” Keisha, the oldest of the siblings, says. The sisters happily recall the childhood holiday shows they’d put on for their family members, singing Christmas carols in both English and in Spanish for hours on end. Yet despite putting on these jam sessions for their family members and receiving formal singing, music, and dance training, the thought of teaming up to pursue their passion never occurred to them — until the COVID-19 lockdown, that is.
“We’ve always sung together, and we would record covers and stuff, but we never said, ‘Oh, let’s make the group,’ until the pandemic because we were all locked inside and we were like, ‘Well, what do we do now,” Keisha says. And so, Musas was born. But unlike our passing obsession with banana bread, the New York-based group are more than just the product of pandemic boredom. Taking a cue from the girl groups of the ’90s and early 2000s, like TLC, Xscape, SWV, and 3LW, Musas are ready to bring their eclectic sound to the masses.