Yola has slowly but surely been creeping toward becoming a household mononym, with six Grammy nominations spread out across her two solo albums to date, followed this year by a key appearance as ...

The Grammy nominee was born in Bristol, England, to a Barbadian mother and Ghanaian father. She later moved to London to go to college, but she later dropped out to pursue her music career. At age 21, ...

Yola, a Grammy-nominated artist, performed a dynamic set at Nashville's Basement East. Her performance blended various influences, from classic soul and funk to 80s pop icons like Prince and Michael ...

Many people use the term “through the fire” to figuratively describe how they’ve gone through hardships in life. For country soul singer Yola, it literally describes part of her journey to becoming ...

British soul and American country music don't seem like they would form a proper pair, but they've become a mighty match thanks to Yolanda Claire Quartey, who goes by stage name "Yola." Yola, who will ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Yola releases her new single “Future Enemies,” her first new music release ...

The singer is usurping expectations about genre and race with a new Dan Auerbach-produced album that touches on everything from disco to Britpop, in advance of an acting breakout in Baz Luhrmann’s ...

Stories abound of how musicians navigated the full-stop nature of the pandemic. For English singer-songwriter Yola, who plays the Showbox Sunday, the extended COVID-19 pause gave her a chance to do a ...

The 36-year-old singer and songwriter’s “genre-fluid” country-soul music has been nominated for four Grammy Awards. By Jon Pareles Yola — Yolanda Claire Quartey — sang her first recording session 20 ...

When the artist Yolanda Quarterly, now better known as Yola, was just a bump in her mother's belly, she was already bopping to music. Yola's mother was a registered nurse, who used to DJ at a hospital ...

Last year, the English powerhouse singer and songwriter was nominated for four Grammys. Now she’s returning with “Stand for Myself,” an album made on her own terms. By Jeremy Gordon Calculus is hard.

The British-born, Nashville-based powerhouse will take advantage of all the staging the AMAs have to offer for her performance of 'Break the Bough,' a lesser-known song that will come amid a show ...