Ronya-Lee LaVaune Anderson, known professionally as Ronya-Lee of Ronya-Lee and the Light Factory, is a Caribbean-American folk-soul singer-songwriter and dancer-choreographer from Washington, DC. Born from Jamaican immigrants, she credits Saturday night house parties, Sunday morning church services and afternoon singalongs at the piano with fostering her love of music. As a young girl she was writing songs and making dances; charged with orchestrating pageantry and worship experiences at her church. The arts and spirituality were always front and center; therefore, the decision to pursue degrees in dance and theology made perfect sense.

While garnering a Master's of Divinity from Duke University and an MFA in Dance from Maryland University, Ronya-Lee continued writing, singing, recording and performing.

Ronya-Lee and the Light Factory names her commitment to creating layered performance experiences that include her original music, dance, film and fashion. Her two singles released last year; Light and More are accompanied by music videos that feature stunning and elaborate use of dance and set design. Ronya-Lee and the Light Factory poses itself as a pop music experiment that rearranges Ronya-Lee’s various artistic elements into something altogether new.

The ukulele-playing fem-crooners' musical stylings are of a unique species fusing folk, soul, and rock with underlying strokes of psychedelia dazzlingly displayed on her forthcoming EP "Joy (For the Humans)" and highlighted by her first single "Light". Reinforced by her enchanting, sultry soprano and well-crafted lyricism, Ronya-Lee skillfully maneuvers between genres to create an exclusive and remarkable blend of pop music.

Most notably Ronya-Lee has performed at The Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, the Atlas Theater, Ford’s Theater, The ARC, The Little Theater in Capetown South Africa, and recently opened for Dionne Warwick at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Her interdisciplinary work which combines original music, dance, and theater has most recently been shown at Atlas Theater (DC), The Lyric Opera House (Baltimore), Triskelion Arts (NYC), Arkansas Hall Studio Theater (AK), Duke University Chapel (NC), and Wa Na Wari (WA). Recent commissions include University of Virginia (2024), See Site National Endowment of the Arts Residency (2023), Maryland State Arts Council (2021-22), and Aunt Karen’s Farm (2021).