Robby Klein
For MŌRIAH, her new EP isn’t just another release—it’s a homecoming. With Nice Life and its Spanish-language counterpart Buena Vida, the Nashville-based Latin-country artist has created her first project of which her grandfather will be able to understand every word.
“That means the world to me,” she says. “My whole family can hear themselves in my songs.”
Recorded in both English and Spanish, the companion EPs are available now and reveal a sound she calls “Tennessee soul meets Mexicana style.” Across shimmering guitars, pedal steel, and nylon-string flourishes, MŌRIAH finds beauty in small moments and balance between two cultures.
“It was important that we gave equal space to both languages,” she explains. “Each version stands on its own, but together they tell the full story.”
The title track, “Nice Life,” is a love letter to her grandmother and to the desert roots that ground her—a quiet meditation on gratitude, endurance, and slowing down.
“Somewhere along the way, my songs started to feel like my journal,” MŌRIAH says. “The melodies became confessions; the verses turned into prayers I didn’t know I was writing.”
Robby Klein
Among the EP’s highlights is “Honky Tonk Jesus,” written during a cross-cultural songwriting camp that paired Nashville hitmakers with writers from Venezuela and Puerto Rico. The song blurs faith and folklore in equal measure, anchored by a lyric that captures MŌRIAH’s open-armed outlook: “Some go down to the A-frame, some roll into the bar / It don’t matter where you end up, He’ll meet you where you are.”
Both Nice Life and Buena Vida echo that same message of belonging. They sound like sunlight and saudade—equal parts joy and reflection—bridging the space between country storytelling and Latin rhythm. Streaming partners have already embraced the project’s bilingual reach, spotlighting MŌRIAH on playlists from Nashville to Mexico City.
For the artist, though, the reward is deeply personal.
That grandfather – who can now understand MŌRIAH’s songs because she recorded full Spanish versions – once surrendered his own music career in Mexico to work as a busboy in Texas.
“He gave up the stage so I could stand on it,” she says. “My endurance is my inheritance.”