Lydia Buckley, also known as Lydia the Bard, is a British singer and songwriter. On top of her original songs, she is also known for her covers, parodies, and fan songs, as well as her “Disney Princesses but they’re Villains” series. Lydia Buckley has stated that she began singing since she was eight years old. She grew up a fan of Taylor Swift and Lea Salonga, growing a love for music and theatre. She went on to attend the D&B Academy of Performing Arts and receive an ALCM Diploma in Musical Theatre Performance and Musical Theatre Teaching.
Lydia loves plants, and grew a “personal forest” during her free time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lydia has a twin brother and two younger sisters. Lydia owns a dog named Toby and a cat named Fig. Outside of YouTube content creation, Lydia has stated that she enjoys theatre performing, romance novels, and Dungeons & Dragons. Lydia is a certified singing coach and offers lessons online. The microphone she uses is a Neumenn TLM 102 Condenser Mic.
“Since I was a wee young thing. I IDOLISED Taylor Swift when I was younger, it was a mild obsession. Taylor Swift would be played from my bedroom for hours on end, every album was completely memorised, and I dreamed of being just like her. Naturally, I grew up and my dreams and aspirations changed, but she was definitely a big influence in my early singing days. Following that, I moved on to idolise Lea Salonga and so the Musical Theatre obsession began. It kinda all spiralled from there! I went on to do theatre lessons and singing lessons, hoping to be just like them. To cut a long story short, I’ve been singing since I was around 8 years old with formal lessons from 12 years, but you’re never too old to learn!”
If you’re interested in knowing about what formal training I have received, I started taking private singing lessons at 12 years old and proceeded to do a bunch of grades in Musical Theatre and pop singing. I went all the way up to my Grade 8, then beyond to take my ALCM Diploma in Musical Theatre Performance and Musical Theatre Teaching. I took these exams whilst I was training full time at D&B Academy of Performing Arts, where I continued my formal training and had the privilege to be taught by many different industry professionals.
Lydia created her YouTube channel on July 19, 2020. The name of the channel was based around her character when playing Dungeons & Dragons, a bard class. Though the early videos she uploaded are now unlisted, the first video still publicly available was uploaded to her channel was uploaded August 20, 2020. This was a cover of “My Future” by Billie Eilish. Covers remain a fundamental part of her channel.
On July 30, 2022, she uploaded a cover of the song “Arabian Nights” from the Disney film Aladdin, which featured a story of what she thought Jasmine might be if she were evil. This was the first entry in Lydia’s “Disney Princesses but they’re Villains” series, which reimagines Disney characters as villains. As the series grew in popularity, it began to include parodies of Disney songs and eventually original songs when she started doing that type of music on her channel. Lydia has stated that the series “really allowed my channel and music in general to grow and meet a wider audience.” In 2023, she uploaded her first original song, “Come Play”. Her debut album, The Woods, was released on October 11, 2025. It featured three songs she had done before as well as nine new tracks. She will also perform live for the first time on November 25.
