Afta Hill

Afta Hill is a Persian-Canadian recording artist and producer from the greater Toronto Ontario, Canada. Working early on with Youtube stars such as Casey Niestat, Afta found success on Soundcloud with his upbeat sampled instrumentals. Afta found his sound when blending his love for middle eastern psychedelic, alternative R&b, Boom-Bap music. In 2018 Afta, along with his team, founded the independent label “Bad Faith Records”. He recently headlined a sold-out show in front of 310 people for the release of his psychedelic R&B/Hip-Hop mixtape “97 Xpress”. At just twenty-two years of age he has independently released four instrumental albums, five EPs, two LPs, and two mixtapes.




Afta (born Arya Safakish) began producing at the age of twelve under the alias SAFAKASH. At the age of 16 he tried his hand at artistry; self-producing grimy east coast hip-hop, and psychedelic R&B tapes. With his music being featured on viral youtube videos, Afta found his footing making instrumentals. The transition to becoming an artist was not smooth for Afta, as people only knew him as a producer. His real breakthrough came when he took the lessons he learned to release music under SAFAKASH and began his new musical project. A toxic relationship, dropping out of school, and a battle with depression and drug abuse left him with nothing. Now with his notoriety as “SAFAKASH” dwindling and his life in a downward spiral, Afta needed a new start.