Debra Debs owes her early music days to her mother's Jazz collection and the missionary boarding school for girls she attended where she sang tenor in both the choir and girl band formed with 7 classmates. Encouraged by her drama teacher, in the summer of 2000 she pursued a degree in Film & Media with Drama in Winchester, UK although dropping out 5 months later saying “...I didn't want to analyse shadows in film noirs” Fortunately for music lovers a Popular Music degree at the Tech Music schools soon followed topped-up with a Masters in International Business.
More impressing is her accolade of hitting 1+ million Youtube hits for her 2013 summer official video for Africa [Higher Higher], a poignant tale of corruption and thirst for growth and development - which has also aired on local and international TV stations syndicated to over 30 countries in Africa.
The talented Cameroon-born, London-based soul singer/song-writer Debra Debs returns with a fresh new album entitled 'LifeCycles' - released late November 2013 and rapidly garnering rave reviews within the UK soul and jazz circuit. For music lovers with a penchant for sounds blessed with groove and soul, this is one album that is guaranteed to stay on rotate.
Recently featured on Jazz FM’s ‘Album of the Week’, her music is a blend of "NeosoulfulJazzyRnBAfrosoulThings" and as much of a mouthful that is, the ‘LifeCycles’ LP is an intricate blend of sounds infused with 90's RnB, Jazz, Gospel, AfroSoul and skilled lyricism that tend to impart socio-conscious messages or resonate poetic enchantments for those with a weakness at describing seduction and life’s multi-experiences.
There is no mistaking she's been influenced by the likes of Jill Scott, Ella Fitzgerald, Lauryn Hill, Floetry, Sarah Vaughn, Mary J Blige and many other greats. Having recently signed a 2-year licensing and distribution deal with Sweet Soul Records in Japan [HMV, Tower Records etc] and currently promoting ‘LifeCycles, Debra Debs is impressively one of the UK’s finest emerging artists and certainly one to watch in 2014.
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