Mix Fenix says she doesn’t want to be the next big thing in Pinoy music. “Well, it would be nice,” she adds, backtracking. “But my main goal isn’t to be the next big thing.”
In November 2025, the singer-songwriter released “Take Me Home,” a track that exemplifies Fenix’s capabilities as a neo-soul artist. Her first song in two years features her silk-smooth voice over a relaxed groover and choir vocals, which she told The New Hue was inspired by Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise.”
Before this, she released “Two Feet In” in 2023, gaining traction through a Wish Bus performance that showed listeners Fenix sounds just as good live as she does recorded.
A skilled guitarist and vocalist, Fenix’s competence was honed through years of music-making. The singer started making music when she was 13 years old and began releasing music as a college student in 2014. “A lot of people expected me to be like Adele or Norah Jones, because that’s my generation, but I never really saw myself there,” she tells Rolling Stone Philippines.
In 2024, she decided to pursue music as a career, doing small shows and festivals alongside content creation, which she considers a source of inspiration.
“Just seeing the work ethic, and seeing how people work in terms of production, in terms of creativity, it’s very inspiring to me,” Fenix says. “I think that’s the world that we need to shape locally. We shouldn’t just limit ourselves to one genre, one type of art. We should also kind of branch out and get to know each other because Filipinos are just so incredibly creative, and there’s just so much that we want to express, especially going through all of these struggles all together.”
Staying the Course
Having made music independently for over a decade, Fenix still faces age-old challenges, such as trying to get to a gig in heavy traffic and needing a budget to record music, but she’s also determined to stay in the industry.
“I think the main thing that I’ve learned throughout this whole journey is resilience. And really trying to stick to the path that I have chosen, because music has always been an on-and-off thing for me. And I constantly get reminded that this really is what I’m meant to be doing.”
When asked what she sees changing in the music industry in 2026, Fenix says that artificial intelligence (AI) could play a bigger part in music-making. “My music friends are very open to the idea of AI. I think it’s inevitable,” she says, but cautions that AI should be used as a tool to help musicians, not replace them.
She adds, “My theory is that the more people create with AI, the more that the man-made stuff, the raw stuff, the things that people actually write down, the things that people actually play with their own instruments live, the value of that is going to shoot up.”
And this is where Fenix thrives, out of the box and unconcerned by popularity and relatability. “I think what I represent is a rawness in being a person,” she tells me. “My goal is really to send a message to people who need to hear it.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Mix Fenix is a Filipino neo-soul singer-songwriter and guitarist who began making music at 13 and started releasing songs as a college student in 2014. She decided to pursue music as a full-time career in 2024.
Released in November 2025, “Take Me Home” is Fenix’s first song in two years, featuring her voice over a relaxed groove and choir vocals, inspired by Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise,” according to an interview with The New Hue.
Fenix cites practical struggles like traffic and needing a recording budget, but says the biggest lesson from over a decade of independent music-making has been resilience and staying committed to her chosen path.
Fenix believes AI’s use in music-making is “inevitable” and that her musician friends are open to it, but stresses it should be used as a tool to assist musicians rather than replace them, predicting raw, human-made music will become more valued as a result.
Fenix says she represents “a rawness in being a person,” prioritizing sending meaningful messages to listeners over chasing relatability or mainstream popularity, distancing herself from comparisons to artists like Adele or Norah Jones.
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