In 2016, when Yebba was on the verge of a viral breakthrough on YouTube, the Arkansas singer-songwriter lost her mother, Dawn, to suicide. A preacher’s daughter who sang from a young age in the church ...

Ed Sheeran (aka one of the highest paid celebrities of the past year) is releasing his album No. 6 Collaborations Project in just a couple days. Before that, though, he’s getting one more preview in, ...

Mark Ronson provided one of the highlights of the summer with his new album Late Night Feelings, and now he has brought those feelings to The Tonight Show. He guested on the program yesterday, and ...

About five years ago, a video of the R&B singer Yebba performing for a small crowd went viral. With this smoky voice and an impressive wail, it seemed like she was on a short runway to stardom, but ...

Yebba — a.k.a. Abbey Smith — is a prodigiously talented 26-year-old singer who’s been buzzing for so long it’s hard to believe “Dawn” is her debut album. She’s already won a Grammy (for a 2019 ...

The five-song project features a compilation of tracks from Dawn, but the tracks are instead reimagined and produced by Yebba’s band leader James Francies. There are also moments featuring the talents ...

Executive produced by Mark Ronson; Dawn builds on Yebba’s relationship with the powerhouse producer after featuring on three tracks on his acclaimed Late Night Feelings. It’s not only Ronson who she’s ...

You could be forgiven for assuming Yebba is British. The singer born Abbey Smith -- her stage name is Abbey backwards -- is working in a hip-hop-adjacent retro soul realm that, in the 21st century, ...

Rising singer-songwriter Yebba has released her latest solo single, “Where Do You Go.” The 24-year-old has appeared on both Mark Ronson and Ed Sheeran’s star-studded albums this year. Yebba wrote the ...

It's a hard time to be a champion singer in pop – the kind who can really nail a vocal run, hit a high note with golden confidence and interpret a lyric with a stage actor's bravado. In 2021, ...