Participants 2025
About the TEAM
Papa Yaga is a French poet, performer, and lyricist exploring the boundaries between artificial intelligence and human emotion. Representing a deeply personal yet universal voice, his songs blend spoken word, melodic hooks, and raw storytelling to confront themes like identity, mental health, and resistance.
For the AI Song Contest 2025, Papa Yaga brings a solo-but-augmented approach. While the human heart of the team writes all lyrics and melodies, AI tools like Suno, Stable Audio and Mubert are used to co-compose and arrange instrumentals, guided by careful prompt engineering. This unique process creates a dialogue between man and machine, crafting songs that are emotionally resonant, ethically transparent, and sonically innovative.
Papa Yaga’s entry is not just a song — it’s a manifesto for inclusive, poetic AI. A call to reclaim technology as a tool for personal healing, cultural critique, and collaborative creation.
About the SONG
Let It Out is an introspective ballad carried by a warm crooner-style voice and cinematic soul instrumentation. Written by Papa Yaga, the song explores the emotional cost of silence and the transformative power of expression. The lyrics speak to the tension between pride and vulnerability, inviting the listener to release what’s been buried inside. With lines like "Your life is a work of art / And you make your own fate", the song becomes both a confession and a call to action — encouraging emotional honesty as a form of healing. The melody flows gently, allowing the vocals to breathe with depth and intention. Each verse unveils quiet struggles; each chorus builds into catharsis. Let It Out is both intimate and universal, a slow-burning anthem for those who carry too much in silence. Papa Yaga delivers a performance rooted in poetic resilience and human dignity, shaped by the friction between voice and vulnerability.
About the HUMAN-AI PROCESS
Let It Out is the result of a layered, transparent collaboration between human creativity and AI tools. The process began with original lyrics written by Papa Yaga, who envisioned the song as a modern ballad in the style of a crooner — somewhere between cinematic soul and classic jazz-pop. With no traditional musical training or access to a recording studio, Papa Yaga turned to Mureka AI, a creative music platform, to generate the instrumental and the melodic line of the song. Mureka provided the harmonic structure and a first vocal rendering based on the lyrics and desired mood.
Rather than stop there, the project then moved to Kits.AI, where the AI-generated vocals were converted using Papa Yaga's own vocal imprint, previously recorded and modeled. This created a hybrid performance: the AI carried the notes and rhythm, but the timbre and tone were uniquely his. This voice synthesis allowed the artist to maintain his personal aesthetic and poetic delivery, without having to physically perform each line.
Throughout the process, every step was intentional and guided by artistic direction: lyrics, melody, emotional timing, and vocal timbre. The result is a song that merges human sensitivity with AI augmentation — not to replace the artist, but to extend his expressive range. This co-creation stands as a testament to the evolving landscape of music, where emotion, technology, and authorship can intertwine meaningfully.
Lyrics
They told you to keep it inside
To lock the fire behind your pride
But silence grows like rust on gold
And dreams decay if left untold
Let it out
Let it out
Before it's too deep
Let it out
Before it's too dark
Your life is a work of art
And you make your own fate
Even the night needs a voice to break
Even the lost can choose the path they take
Breathe it in — the pain, the grace
There’s no wrong time, only space
Let it out
Let it out
Before it's too deep
Let it out
Before it's too dark
Your life is a work of art
And you make your own fate
You wear your silence like a suit,
Tailored pain in every route.
But the weight inside your chest
Deserves a name, deserves some rest.
Let the strings rise up like fire,
Let the night betray the liar.
You’re more than what they couldn’t see —
A masterpiece that fights to be.