Simone Morana, known professionally as Cyla(Cremona, 26 August 1978), is an Italian digital artist, writer, poet, musician, composer, music producer and VJ. He began his artistic career in 1996 as a musician and singer-songwriter, composing more than 50 original songs between 1996 and 2005, collected in four self-produced albums. In 2001, he placed third in the national selections for the Festival di Sanremo Giovani.

He subsequently released the album Shadows of Me (2008) and the single Rays of Sunshine (2011).

From 2012, he began collaborating as a designer with Society6 and devoted himself to digital art, developing a style based on digital painting and photographic manipulation. His works have been published on numerous international websites, blogs and platforms dedicated

to contemporary art.

In 2015, he exhibited his work for the first time in galleries and group exhibitions in several Italian cities, including Florence, Brescia, Parma, Mantua and Milan. In 2016, he took part in his first international group exhibition in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, organized by Gran Canaria Art Gallery and presented by master José Van Roy Dalí. That same year, he published his fifth art catalogue, distributed through more

than sixty online stores.

He has also collaborated with CharityStars, auctioning several of his artworks and donating part of the proceeds to charitable initiatives. Throughout his career, he has created more than 1,200 digital artworks, published in twelve books distributed internationally. Since 2015, he has been present on Artfinder as a digital artist.

Between 2022 and 2023, he reached first place in the poetry category on Wattpad six consecutive times. On 20 November 2023, he exclusively published the poetry collection Poesie on Amazon, bringing together poems written between 2010 and 2022. In 2024, he published Poesie 2, the novel Killer Lady, and Antologia Poetica, the latter available in both Italian and English.

In 2025, he founded Cyla World, an independent music label and multidisciplinary creative project. Within this project, he created 18 original artistic projects, each with its own visual identity, logos, characters and dedicated fictional universe. For each project, he oversees the creation of musical, artistic and literary works, taking responsibility for songwriting, composition, music production, creative direction and visual identity. He is the author of more than 500 original songs, predominantly in English and Japanese, distributed across more than 60 international music stores and platforms, as well as an extensive catalogue of digital

and painted artworks.