Basya Schechter is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, cantor, and music teacher.
She is the lead singer and founder of the world/folk rock band Pharaoh's Daughter and has released two solo albums.
Raised in the Hasidic Jewish community of Borough Park, Schechter left Orthodoxy after high school but maintained a love for the traditional Jewish music of her youth.
Her own music often blends concepts from Jewish music with a variety of indigenous styles and sounds from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, among others.