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 want to ...

Alternative R&B and electronic polymath Kelela has always sounded like the future. In the last decade, the D.C.-born artist has exhibited her dedication to the avant-garde on debut mixtape Cut 4 Me, ...

On Raven, Kelela blends pop, R&B, jazz, and club music and creates a moody soundscape that is perfectly equipped to take fans through the rest of the cold winter. While Take Me Apart was intimate and ...

It's rush hour in Midtown Manhattan, but Kelela is safe from the frenzy. She’s nude and lying across from me at the oasis-like Juvenex Spa in Koreatown. We’re sliding around sudsy tables as two women ...

Five years after the release of her debut album, Take Me Apart, Kelela is finally back with new music. On Tuesday, the R&B singer shared a mesmerizing new song, “Washed Away,” that pairs her serene ...

Kelela rose to prominence in the mid-2010s, starting with her Cut 4 Me mixtape and Hallucinogen EP and culminating with the release of her debut studio album Take Me Apart in 2017. Since the release ...

In September, Kelela returned with “Washed Away,” her first new single in the five years since releasing her debut album Take Me Apart. Since then, she’s released “Happy Ending,” which was produced ...

The 39-year-old Ethiopian-American artist born Kelela Mizanekristos has always been openly critical of the music business, calling out colorism and other issues in interviews. But what was happening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kelela is an R&B singer in the truest sense of the word, and all of her music fits squarely within the genre. But she always ...

Kelela is never one to rush — she worked for four years on her first mixtape, 2013’s Cut 4 Me, then followed it up with just six more tracks on 2015’s Hallucinogen — and her album is the work of ...

In November 2012, just two songs into recording her first mixtape, Kelela Mizanekristos rear-ended someone and totaled her car. The accident was non-life-threatening, but the then 28-year-old’s car ...