Can we say that Yola is the great soul singer we didn’t realize we needed in 2019 … and then hasten to add that “soul” is slightly reductive for a singer as adroit in as man…
. Her renown is hardly limited to Tennessee insiders; at the recent Newport Folk Festival, she sang alongside both Dawes and Dolly Parton, and she was a hit on her own at the just-completed Austin City Limits Festival. If her friends alone fill out their ballots, it could happen. And if not, there are many records and probably nominations to come for someone who makes this many raving converts within the first five minutes of every gig.
It’s a true blessing to be able to open for a lot of different acts. The second that you decide to plug into a genre, then you have fractioned the number of people that you could expose yourself to. And so my love of being across genre plays into my hands, I think. I’m fully aware that this is a debut campaign and that it’s not normal for all of this stuff to be happening.
When you were in different bands earlier in the decade, doing a much more modern style of pop that wasn’t anything like this, was this kind of a side of yourself that you had suppressed? Yeah, I’ve dodged that way of it a lot. [Laughs.] I did two backing vocal jobs in my life — and when I say jobs, I mean one singular appearance more than a run of shows or anything. One of them was backing singing for Adele at one show; it was the Royal Variety in London. I think the Prince might have been there at the time; I think Queenie was there, God love her. For that show, my friend was the MD and he was like, ”I’m really stuck. If you can sort me out, I’d be really grateful.
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