Armi Millare

• Name — Armi Millare • Birth Name — Armi Olbes Millare • Awards — NU Rock Awards Best Female Artist • Occupation — * Singer • songwriter • Years Active — 2004–present

Since 2006, Millare's band released four albums and toured extensively around the world (including Asia, the Middle East, US and Canada). The BBC tagged them as the "Asian band to most likely to cross over North American shores" while Time has called the band's music "genre-defying" as well as "both thoughtful and sensual." Millare has herself pointed out the diversity of musical influences upon her work, which is spread across different genres. She has emphasised that to follow a few musical styles exclusively would be boring. She strives therefore to balance and combine numerous styles without any necessary single point of stylistic adherence. Her band has garnered critical praise from artists such as Tim Bowness of No-Man, Curt Smith of Tears for Fears, and a collaborative track with Scotland's Paul Buchanan of The Blue Nile. In 2017, she launched Startup Series where she plays her unreleased tracks, as well as the beloved hits she has created with UDD in new cities, and kicked it off in Berlin and in the UK. Stoa Sound, the music-producing body of Stoa Studios was founded by Millare writing original music for film, animation and other media, preserving the same vision and attention to detail as the multi-disciplinary brand. Millare has done work as Munro— an artistic platform featuring a multi-sensory and experimental one-off performance for art festivals and artist residencies. Here she gets to work with multi-media artists utilizing her knowledge in Asian Music as her chosen major in the University of the Philippines College of Music. Her band UDD released their self-titled fourth album in July 2019. On December 26, 2021, Millare announced that she would be parting ways with Terno Recordings and as a consequence of that, the band, UDD, as they remained with the label and eventually signed a 2-album deal with Viva Records who then purchased the UDD catalogue through Terno Recordings.

Millare has also explored in the field of visual arts and was frequently seen with artist Kawayan De Guia in 2011 in Baguio City. She has joined in a visual art exhibit entitled ' In Transit' at CCP. She participated in the group exhibit that ran on September 20, 2015, at the Small Gallery of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Her work was featured together with musician artists like The Edralins, Kabunyan de Guia, Jazel Kristin, Kanna Magosaki and Geloy Concepcion among others.