A Live-Session Single That Lets Love Linger In The Room
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“Історія про любов”
(“A Story About Love”), the Ukrainian-born, London-based singer-songwriter MONHARA makes songs that feel lived-in from the first breath. On “Історія про любов”
, the Ukrainian-born, London-based singer-songwriter leans into that gift with a live-session performance that glows with human touch. No backing tracks, no glossy camouflage. Just voice, band, and the slight tension that comes from real musicians listening closely to one another.
The song sits in that sweet spot where contemporary pop meets soul, R&B and a little jazz smoke around the edges. Keys shimmer, bass moves with patience, brass lifts the chorus without crowding it, and the drums keep everything grounded in a steady pulse. MONHARA‘s vocal is the centre of gravity: clear, expressive, and unafraid of a little ache. She sings like someone telling the truth after the room has gone quiet.
What gives the track its weight is the setting behind it. Written in Kyiv during the full-scale war, while air-raid sirens and power cuts shaped daily life, the song carries a sense of endurance that never turns theatrical. It was made in the middle of uncertainty, yet it reaches for tenderness rather than despair. That choice matters. MONHARA doesn’t frame love as a tidy ending or a perfect memory. She treats it as something that can change shape, leave a mark, and keep living inside a person long after the relationship itself is gone.
That emotional angle gives “Історія про любов”
its bite. The lyric doesn’t chase a grand statement; it moves through intimacy, regret, acceptance and the strange way affection can outlast its own story. In MONHARA‘s hands, love becomes less like a destination and more like weather: it arrives, breaks, cools, and still leaves traces on the skin.
Her line, “Some stories come to an end, but the love we experienced does not disappear without a trace. It changes us and remains in our voice, in our memory, and in the way we look at ourselves and others,” captures the song’s emotional core without flattening it. There’s no neat moral here, only the recognition that feeling can survive in altered form.
That instinct for emotional honesty is part of what makes MONHARA stand out. She comes from a concert-hall-trained background, but her work doesn’t feel boxed in by polish. It feels open, breathing, and anchored by the physical reality of performance. You can hear the room in the recording, the push and pull between players, the small human imperfections that make a song feel present instead of sealed off.
As a Ukrainian artist working from London, MONHARA also brings a distinct cultural perspective to contemporary soul-pop. There’s Eastern European depth in the way she holds tension, and a modern urban elegance in how she lets the arrangement unfold. The result is music that feels intimate without shrinking, expressive without overreaching.
“Історія про любов”
is a quiet kind of arrival: graceful, bruised, and full of life.
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