Ronika (born Veronica Sampson) is an English singer-songwriter and DJ from Nottingham who writes, sings and produces her own music. Although relatively new to the music scene, Ronika has gained a lot of attention for her electro and pop-inspired music, particularly from music website Popjustice, where two of her tracks were featured as Song of the Day in May 2011. She was featured as The Guardian's New Band of the Day on 18 February 2010, with critic Paul Lester describing her as "a bit like early Madonna or a Gwen Stefani styled by George at Asda", while referring to her music as "late-period" disco, electro-funk and synthpop. Furthermore, the British newspaper The Sunday Times gave Ronika's Forget Yourself/Wiyoo EP a positive review, writing that she "rises above mere note-perfect pastiche: her handling of the source material is so adept, and the results are so fab and imbued with such understanding and affection, that the fact the EP is more reverent than revelatory matters not a jot."
To date, Ronika has released three EPs on her own record label, RecordShop: Do or Die/Paper Scissors Stone EP on 26 April 2010, Forget Yourself/Wiyoo EP on 13 June 2011 and Only Only/In the City on 3 October 2011. A single titled "Automatic" was released on 9 April 2012; Popjustice praised it as "an infectious, handclap-happy deep-groove 'jam'", while the NME called it "pop music for credible pop fans, from the right '80s references (Tom Tom Club, Prince) to the patina of DIY grain in the bit-crunched laptop production." Ronika will support Little Boots' gig at London's XOYO on 4 May 2012.