Milan Ring

Milan Ring has been labelled by Apple Music as “Australia’s R’n’B Princess”. At Mood on the Roof, we believe her titles will soon extend far beyond that.

Milan Ring is that rare artist who can run the whole room herself. Sydney based, she writes, produces, engineers, sings, raps and plays guitar, often handling an entire track from first draft to final mix on her own. She came up gigging as a session guitarist and quietly building a catalogue that blurred neo-soul, rap and R&B, while critics started calling her a key figure in Australia’s R&B renaissance and Apple Music tagged her as the country’s R&B “princess”.

Her roots stretch through Indian and Chinese heritage, and that shows up in the details. On her debut album I’m Feeling Hopeful she folds in ideas of healing, mental health and family history, then later singles like Mangos weave Guzheng into the production without turning it into a gimmick. Around that core she has quietly built an impressive network, trading verses, hooks and guitar lines with DRAM, The Social Experiment, Che Lingo, Jean Deaux, BARKAA, Winston Surfshirt, BLESSED, Ta-Ku, B Wise, Sampa The Great and more.

People talk about her as “Guitar&B” because the instrument is not just an accessory in the mix. It is a second vocal line. Years of playing in bands and backing other artists means she can sit inside a progression, flip from clean rhythm parts to lead licks and then drop straight back into the hook without breaking the pocket. Interviews keep circling back to that idea: she is a polymath who treats guitar, voice and production as one language, not separate jobs.

BS is the side of Milan that looks you in the eye. The track, featuring UK rapper Che Lingo, rides a tight groove and lets the two of them pick apart ego, front and half-truths without turning preachy. It is a song about knowing when something feels off and saying it out loud, built from the same toolkit she uses behind the boards: clipped drums, elastic bass, stacked vocals, guitar tucked in the cracks.

Hide With You comes from a different place. Written around piano and soft, R&B-leaning jazz colours, she has described it as a search for freedom and a song that helped her through her own healing. Where BS pushes back, Hide With Youleans in, talking about wanting to disappear from the noise with someone who gets it. The production leaves a lot of air around her voice, so when the harmonies and guitar phrases slide in, it feels like a conversation more than a performance.

Across all of it, Milan’s thing is control without stiffness. She can spit a verse, lock in a guitar solo, tweak a synth patch and then mix the whole track, but what you remember is the way the songs feel lived in. Sydney’s R&B scene has a lot of faces right now. Milan Ring sits in the middle of that ecosystem as both architect and artist, quietly pulling Guitar&B into its own lane.

And that’s because there’s almost no part of Milan Ring that Milan Ring is not a part of. This exceptional creative is in the driver’s seat of her project, leading her creative direction as a singer, rapper, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and mixing engineer.

In her latest single, “BS”, Milan Ring delivers another hit through her confident melodic rap flows, Latin-flavoured instrumentation, and her unique blend of soul and electronic styles.

When explaining BS’ message, Milan says the track considers how to cope when everything goes downhill. “‘BS’ is lyrically expressed in a question for me – when life throws us chaos, how are we going to deal with it? The song reflects on there being a choice between two paths, one following self-sabotaging behaviours, in the forms of drinking, gambling and anger.”, Milan tells Mixdown Magazine.

Milan Ring is an inimitable talent, set to lead the way for Australia’s rising wave of hitmakers. We are delighted to welcome Milan Ring to Mood on the Roof, performing her irresistible latest single, “BS”, featuring UK rapper Che Lingo.