Alina Baraz (born September 24, 1993) is a Pop/R&B Musician. She is based in Los Angeles, CA.

Baraz is a native of Ohio. She was introduced to music at a young age by her parents. Her parents are Russian. She sang in her Gospel choir and recorded herself over 8tracks beats. She eventually got her parents' permission to move to California to pursue music full-time at the age of 19.

In an interview with Billboard (magazine), Baraz said:

Alina came on the scene after catching the attention of electronic musician Galimatias; they connected with her after hearing one of her SoundCloud uploads. In the beginning of their relationship, they would send their music back and forth over Facebook: Galimatias would send one of his previously-released instrumentals and Alina Baraz would then send her evolved version after writing and recording her own lyrics. This led to their first collaboration, entitled "Drift".

Soon thereafter, the two began working on additional songs together, releasing the single "Make You Feel" plus an EP, which includes "Drift" and "Pretty Thoughts."

They recently followed up that project with the new single titled Fantasy, which appeared on the EP Urban Flora, a comprehensive trove of their collaborations to date.

Alina Baraz connects her music through SoundCloud, where she has released the singles Make you Feel, Drift, and Pretty Thoughts. She recently embarked on a new project, releasing the new single titled Fantasy.

On April 24 2020, Baraz released her first full-length album It Was Divine, which signifies her return to the R&B scene two years after the release of her last extended play, The Color of You. The album is a dreamy exploration of a passionate relationship: the middle, the end, and the complicated aftermath. Baraz told Clash that the 16-track record "gives her the freedom to say what she wants to say," while still allowing listeners to take what they want from her lyrics.^[28]

The album begins on a strong note with "My Whole Life," a song written about the first electrifying jolts of attraction that seem almost too good to be real.

"Is it me/Is my intuition wrong/Or does it feel like coming home?" This sense of breathless excitement continues on "Morocco" featuring rapper 6lack and "Frank," which begins with the sensual line, "Show me all you know/water me and I will grow."^[28][30]

Track five on the album, "Gimme the Wheel" featuring rapper Smino, is one of the strongest songs on the album. Baraz’s lyrics convey her growing awareness of friction in her burgeoning relationship, coupled with her desire to work through relationship issues - "Say you been needing a break/I’m going to make it okay."^[28][30]

"Found a little love, lost my sanity," Baraz croons on stand-out track, "To Me," a song that she released on her birthday in September 2019.

It is by far the most emotionally charged song on the album, and Baraz told Apple Music that "To Me" is the "most important song of [her] career, thus far." Baraz refers to the song as "a toast to myself," admitting that she wrote the song on the day she left her relationship after writing down all the things that she needed herself to hear.^[28][30]

"To Me" marks a turning point in the album, serving as a bridge between songs that are more relationship-oriented and songs that are more introspective and individualistic.

"Who got me like I do," Baraz wonders in the haunting chorus of "Who Got Me," a melancholic tune where she comes to terms with the difficult realization that the person you can count on most is oftentimes only yourself.

It is a sharp departure from earlier tracks like "Frank," with lilting lines like, "I look at you and see all the parts of me."

It Was Divine’s final song is "The Beginning," filled with nostalgic reminders of a relationship past even as Baraz longs for a new beginning, with lines like, "Can we just go back to us at the beginning?"^[28][30]