Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula

Person from United Kingdom

Genres: soul, Neo-Soul, female vocalists, british, rnb

Laura Mvula

About Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula (née Douglas) is a British soul singer-songwriter from Birmingham. Her debut album "Sing to the Moon", was released on March 4, 2013. Mvula grew up in the Birmingham suburbs of Selly Park and Kings Heath with two younger siblings, and was influenced by the girl band Eternal. She sang with Black Voices, an a capella group set up by her aunt. She graduated from the Birmingham Conservatoire with a degree in composition. While she was working as a supply teacher in a Birmingham secondary school, she started writing songs on her laptop. She was working as a receptionist when she sent out two demos to several people in the music industry. She is married to singer Themba Mvula. Signed to Sony subsidiary RCA, Mvula released her debut extended play, "She", on 16 November 2012. Her debut studio album, Sing to the Moon, was released on 4 March 2013. One person has described her music using a new term, "gospeldelia". The album was preceeded by the single "Green Garden". The song is an elegy to her home in Kings Heath. On 6 December 2012, Mvula was shortlisted for the Critics' Choice award at the 2013 BRIT Awards. On 9 December, she was nominated for the BBC's Sound of 2013 poll, and finished in fourth position. On 1 February 2013, she gave a live TV performance on The Graham Norton Show on BBC One, singing "Green Garden".

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272,716 listeners  ·  3,326,843 plays via Last.fm

On RadioStar

50
stations playing
12
countries
37
tracks tracked
most active station (France)
Heard alongside: Edamame Coldplay Lana Del Rey

Radio Stations sorted by tracks on rotation

60 north radio
1 track on rotation
MP3 : 320
42 Likes

Framboase
1 track on rotation
MP3 : 128
35 Likes

Laura Mvula — Top 30 songs of 40

Artist Song title Like / Dislike
Laura Mvula Brighter Dawn
Laura Mvula Sing To the Moon
Laura Mvula What Matters (feat. Simon Neil)
Laura Mvula Got Me
Laura Mvula Overcome (ft. Nile Rodgers)
Laura Mvula That's Alright
Laura Mvula Green Garden
Laura Mvula Sing To The Moon
Laura Mvula Church Girl
Laura Mvula Sing To The Moon
Laura Mvula Bread
Laura Mvula Little Girl Blue
Laura Mvula Laura Mvula with Metropole Orkestra
Laura Mvula Green Garden (2013)
Laura Mvula Let Me Fall
Laura Mvula Pink Noise
Laura Mvula She
Laura Mvula Can't Live With The World
Laura Mvula Father, Father
Laura Mvula Like The Morning Dew
Laura Mvula Brighter Dawn (From The Motion Picture "Clemency", 2019) (Single Version)
Laura Mvula Green Garden
Laura Mvula You Work For Me
Laura Mvula Green garden
Laura Mvula Africa
Laura Mvula Safe Passage
Laura Mvula Make Me Lovely
Laura Mvula Diamonds
Laura Mvula Laura Mvula with Metropole Orkestra
Laura Mvula She (Shlohmo Remix)
Brighter Dawn
Sing To the Moon
What Matters (feat. Simon Neil)
Overcome (ft. Nile Rodgers)
That's Alright
Green Garden
Sing To The Moon
Church Girl
Sing To The Moon
Little Girl Blue
Laura Mvula with Metropole Orkestra
Green Garden (2013)
Let Me Fall
Pink Noise
Can't Live With The World
Father, Father
Like The Morning Dew
Brighter Dawn (From The Motion Picture "Clemency", 2019) (Single Version)
Green Garden
You Work For Me
Green garden
Safe Passage
Make Me Lovely
Diamonds
Laura Mvula with Metropole Orkestra
She (Shlohmo Remix)