Today we’d like to introduce you to Everay – Ewelina Borkowska.
Everay – Ewelina, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I am Everay, a Polish award-winning singer-songwriter based in Devon, UK. My music is born from lived experience — from what breaks you, what rebuilds you, and what it takes to keep going when you feel like you can’t. I blend pop, rock, and country influences, but at the centre of everything I write is emotion, truth, and survival.
I didn’t begin this journey with confidence. I began with doubt. I was told I wouldn’t be good enough, and over time those words settled into how I saw myself. For a long time, I questioned whether my voice deserved to exist at all. Music was always in me, but believing in it — and in myself — came much later.
Starting meant rebuilding. Not just as an artist, but as a person. I went through therapy, faced my self-esteem issues, and slowly learned how to separate my worth from the voices that tried to define me. My voice didn’t appear because I was ready — it appeared because I refused to disappear.
My debut album, Set In Stone, came from that fragile place of searching for self-worth. It was me learning how to exist honestly in my own skin, song by song. My second album, Phoenix, was written after experiencing narcissistic abuse — a breaking point that stripped everything back and forced me to rebuild from nothing. It became about identity, survival, and reclaiming myself when everything familiar had been taken away.
Along the way, I’ve been honoured with awards including Personality of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, and Vocalist of the Year, alongside international radio chart recognition. But the real story isn’t in the awards — it’s in the years of continuing anyway when I had every reason to stop.
I’m still working on my second album, still growing, still becoming. I don’t see myself as someone who has “made it,” but as someone who is still in the process of rising.
My music is for the ones in between — the ones rebuilding quietly, the ones learning to breathe again after being broken. I didn’t start from strength. I started from doubt. And I stayed.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It hasn’t been a smooth road — but it has been a meaningful one.
One of my biggest struggles was self-doubt. For a long time, I didn’t believe my voice had value. I was surrounded at times by people who projected their own insecurities onto me, and over time that shaped how I saw myself. I internalised it, and it made me question whether I was good enough to be an artist at all.
That lack of confidence followed me into my creative work. I wasn’t just trying to grow — I was trying to unlearn the belief that I didn’t belong.
Another challenge was writing and expressing myself in a second language. It added an extra layer of pressure, because I wasn’t only translating emotion, I was also learning how to fully find my voice in a language that wasn’t my first.
On top of that, experiencing narcissistic abuse deeply affected my sense of identity and self-worth, and I had to go through a long process of rebuilding who I was and learning to trust myself again. Therapy and self-work became a necessary part of that process, not an optional one.
What made it harder is that all of this happened while I was building my music career at the same time — there was no separation between healing and creating.
But those struggles are also what shaped my music. They forced me to be honest, to strip everything back, and to write from a place that was real rather than safe.
It hasn’t been smooth — but it has been real. And that is what I create from.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I write and perform emotionally driven songs, blending gentle vocals with powerful, belted moments to fully express what I feel inside the music. My focus is always on emotional honesty and connection — I want people to feel something real when they listen.
I’m known for writing songs that not only tell my story, but also help others move through their own experiences. A big part of my work is self-growth — I’m constantly learning, reflecting, and turning those lessons into music that can offer value and perspective to others.
What sets me apart is my identity and voice — literally and artistically. My Polish accent is part of who I am and how I sound, and I’ve learned to embrace it instead of hide it. I also write from a place of ongoing self-development, often sharing what I’m learning in real time through my music.
What I’m most proud of is releasing my first album, and being close to completing my second — a project that feels like closing an important chapter of my life. I’m also proud of overcoming deep insecurity, learning to “re-parent” my inner child, and actively working on my self-esteem instead of giving up on myself.
A huge part of my journey has been ignoring the voices from my past that told me to stop dreaming and choose a 9–5 life instead. I’m proud that I didn’t listen. I kept going.
Are there any important lessons you’ve learned that you can share with us?
The most important lesson I’ve learned is that my worth is not defined by other people’s opinions of me — and neither is my future.
For a long time, I let external voices and projected insecurities shape how I saw myself. I believed them more than I believed my own intuition. But over time, I realised that waiting to feel “ready” or “good enough” was never going to build anything — I had to keep going while still becoming.
I learned that confidence is not a starting point — it’s something you build through action, even in doubt. And self-growth is not a phase, it’s a lifelong process of returning to yourself.
A big part of my journey has been rebuilding from within — re-parenting my inner child, strengthening my self-worth, and choosing not to abandon myself when things felt difficult.
And that’s where everything shifted.
I stopped trying to become what others expected, and started becoming who I actually am. That’s where my “phoenix energy” comes from — not perfection, but transformation. Not having it all figured out, but rising anyway.
Pricing:
- 10GBP Set In Stone Album
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.everayofficial.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everayofficial/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/everayofficial/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@everayofficial
- Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7MScLK5IFjeC6kUOBz1LpO
