In September, Kelela re-emerged with new music after a four-year hiatus. Of “Washed Away,” her first release since a set of remixes to debut album Take Me Apart, she said, “I specifically ...

Through 2023's Raven, 2017's Take Me Apart, 2015's Hallucinogen, all the way back to her 2013 mixtape debut, Cut 4 Me - and the remix albums in between - Kelela has continuously called on the ...

Trending on Billboard Kelela’s music is uniquely situated between ... Simone to warp her lead vocals on a Take Me Apart remix album in 2018. Throughout her career, Kelela has felt she has ...

Since Kelela’s rise in the 2010s, the Ethiopian-American singer has constantly kept listeners guessing as to what sounds she’ll explore next. Her 2017 debut album Take Me Apart contained an ...

The album was recorded in May 2024 over a series of intimate shows at the iconic Blue Note in New York City. Kelela ...

Kelela’s otherworldly vision fulfills the groundwork that R&B and pop icon Janet Jackson laid with her third studio album, 1986’s Control. Helming the “Black girl pop” universe ...

As we talk, Kelela excitedly mentions a nascent project she’s been thinking through since the early pandemic days. It has no real form yet, much less a cohesive format like an album, but ...

The acclaimed singer-songwriter also dropped a single to introduce the project. By Kyle Denis After teasing a “new era” on Instagram last week (Jan. 25), Kelela kept the wait short and sweet ...

Right now, that’s In the Blue Light, a live jazz album and accompanying mini-documentary recorded during her sold-out residency at New York’s Blue Note club last spring. For Kelela ...