In just two years Belgian singer Selah Sue has gone through a stellar ascent from an unknown artist publishing home-recorded song drafts via Myspace, to a soul starlet collaborating with prestigious names like Meshell Ndegeocello and Cee Lo Green – she appears on his song ‘Please’ from his 2010 album ‘The Lady Killer’ – or opening for Prince at his show in Antwerp, Belgium.

Meanwhile she has released her ambitious debut album which was co-produced by Nneka and Patrice. It is a smart melting pot between electric rock, neo soul and organic hip hop. Selah’s lyrics are white, but her voice sounds black and illuminates each track. The reggae-ragga sound textures that are part of her daily life are a big influence her, first of all the Erykah Badu nu soul sound, later on MeShell Ndegeocello, but before all Lauryn Hill’s Fugees, her only icon: “It’s true that she is a kind of role model to me. She raps like a gangsta girl, the way she sings is truly divine…I have learnt every single chord of her album.”
Her first single “Raggamuffin” is one of her oldest songs and was viewed more than a million times online. “This track symbolizes me” she explains. “It shows my soulful and singing side, but also my hard side, between rap and ragga.