

Īpart from singing, Lyodra is also studying acting. She has admitted experiencing damage to her vocal cords in 2016 due to excessive singing using the whistle register. When she was still a seventh grader in junior high school, Lyodra imitated Mariah Carey's use of the whistle register in the song "O Holy Night".

Lyodra's ability to sing with the reach of the whistle register was found to be self-taught. She also practiced playing the organ while serving as a psalmist at mass at the Catholic Church of St. In 2013, Lyodra practiced vocals with Derta Purba who is also the vocal teacher of the serious solo singer Putri Ayu Silaen. According to her father, Lyodra was able to sing the song "Ibu Kita Kartini" with a better vibrato technique than her peers, even more than those who have taken vocal lessons before. When she was 4 years old, she already participated in local singing competitions in Medan City. Lyodra's singing talent began to show since she was 2 years old. She is known to have a younger brother who is two years apart named Igyralo Ginting. Lyodra is the eldest of two children, from entrepreneur Simar Ginting and psychiatric nurse Natalia Johanna Tarigan. The first name Lyodra itself is a modification or another form of the female name in Hebrew, Liora, which means "Light". She was raised in a Catholic family and was given the baptismal name Margareta.

Lyodra was born with the name Lyodra Margareta Ginting on 21 June 2003 in Medan City, North Sumatra Province. In addition, Lyodra was nominated for " Best Southeast Asian Act" from 2021 MTV Europe Music Awards. She was awarded " Best Children Female Solo Artist" from 20th Anugerah Musik Indonesia Awards, and " Best New Asian Artist in Indonesia" from 2021 Mnet Asian Music Award. She was listed as the youngest Indonesian Idol champion, at the age of 16 years and 255 days. In both competitions, Lyodra practiced the use of the whistle register, which is the highest range of the human voice-higher than falsetto. She was the winner of the A3 category (aged 13–15 years) at the 2017 Sanremo Junior children's international solo singing competition in Sanremo, Italy, and the winner of the tenth season of Indonesian Idol. Lyodra Margareta Ginting (born 21 June 2003) is an Indonesian singer and actress from Medan, North Sumatra.
