Riya is the stage name of Laura Hill, a British drum & bass vocalist, songwriter and DJ from Birmingham, now based in Sevenoaks. She began DJing at 16 and later returned to the decks to build sets around her own songs and perform in her own right. Her collaborators include Hybrid Minds, Lenzman, Total Science, Etherwood, Collette Warren and Technimatic.
In 2010, she released Redlines with Total Science on Critical Music. Her debut album, Sublimation, followed in 2015 on Spearhead Records, and the EP Blame came out in 2021. Riya and Collette Warren released Two Sides of Everything and launched their imprint, Carnelian Music. Her 2025 singles included Twin Flame with Warren on Carnelian Music, What We Got on Spearhead Records, Dark Sun with Nymfo on Computer Integrated Audio, and These Times with Zar on Footnotes. In July 2026, V Recordings released This Is Riyality, featuring Etherwood, Bladerunner, Zero T and L-Side. Her music has also appeared on Liquicity Records.