Cynthia (Ayala) Alexander is a singer-songwriter and music producer-arranger rolled into one.

'Revered by young musicians as the doyenne of alternative artists, Cynthia Alexander's music first found fruition with the rock group Hayp, for which she won the Best Bass Player Award at the 1989 World Band Explosion Finals in Tokyo.'

Deciding to go solo in 1996 brought Cynthia back to playing guitar and piano, producing ‘somber angst-sponge cello-laced meditations while sweeping the gamut of pre-millennial anxiety central to Alanis Morisette'. She is one of the country's few guitarists who ‘specialize' in alternate tunings.

She is a 'fixture in the local alternative music scene where ‘intelligent' artists seek refuge from the rejections of pop inanity. Alexander fuses compelling melodies and layered instrumentation honed with a poet's rigor.'

Her debut album INSOMNIA & other Lullabyes (1997) introduced a fresh alternative to the usual fare of drums bass and wailing guitars lineup on radio. 'It is not everyday that pop music lovers get to listen to songs about life's ironies and paradoxes, as well as heartaches of love, written and sang in the manner that Cynthia does..' - Ed Santoalla

She is one of the first DIY artists who started the wave of Independent music in the Philippines. Her independently produced sophomore album Rippingyarns (2000) is the fruit of her misdeals with a local record label for INSOMNIA & other Lullabyes. Rippingyarns won top awards (Album of the Year, Producer of the Year, Song of the Year etc.) besting mainstream artists from major labels at the 2001 Katha Music Awards.

Comet's Tail (April 2005), won her Producer and Guitarist of the Year at the NU 107 Rock Awards. She is NU 107's first Female Icon (2004). Cynthia designs and/or paints the covers and inlays of her own music albums, providing us a glimpse into her visual language. exhibits

She has 3 music videos: The Weather Report (Probe Productions); Intertwyne; and 108 Eyes (directed by Ruel Asuncion). Cynthia Alexander was MTV Lokal 's Artist of the Month of May 2005.