Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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Family tragedy left the singer with PTSD – but Yebba overcame it, and now she is taking the pop world by storm Eleanor Halls is a writer covering music, books, film and TV, as well as co-host of chart ...

"October Sky" starts out in that quiet, inward space so familiar in these Billie Eilish days, as Yebba invokes a lo-fi filtered childhood memory... It's a hard time to be a champion singer in pop – ...

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, ...

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 ...