Gilia was born in Los Angeles and began singing professionally as a child. She auditioned for the renowned youth performing group “Kids of the Century” where she became the lead vocalist and traveled all around the United States performing and competing in various musical festivals.  A childhood highlight performance was for the then president of the United States, Ronald Reagan and his guests Barbara Streisand and Dionne Warwick.

Throughout her studies and graduation from UCLA, she continued to sing live in clubs as well as singing studio sessions with various performers including, The Eagles, and record producer and writer, John Farrar. As a guest vocalist she sang with music legend, Cliff Richard at the Royal Albert Hall in London for an unprecedented 32 sold out shows and then joined him on his subsequent “Real As I Wanna Be” tour in Europe. She also sang with and/or wrote songs and performed on the albums of N’Sync, James Ingram, Oleta Adams, Zucchero, Steve Lukather, BB King, Jennifer Paige, Vincenzo LaScola, Bill Champlin of Chicago, Johnny Sutherland of B3, Sergio Mendes, Leo Sayer. Sophie B. Hawkins and the Scorpions.  She began to collaborate and write songs for films and television such as “Irren Ist Maennlich” (To Err is Male), “Widows”, “The Cellist” and “Nutcracker and Mouse King”. She also wrote and sang the title track to “Kommissar Rex” which airs in 107 countries around the world and sang the television jingle for the Saturday morning “ABC Kids Show”.

Gilia is currently beginning promotion for her debut Christmas album, ANGEL OF CHRISTMAS, and planning a European tour.