The neo big soul
October 19, 2020

Baby Rose: I’m a vocal anomaly

When she was a teenager, Baby Rose was ostracised because of the way she talked, but then she "realised that I was a pariah and I was different from the rest of the pack, but that was OK because eventually it would be something that I could make my thing". And she did - she started making music, including "one of the most impressive vocal performances in recent memory", as NME has heard her album 'To Myself'. She gets comparisons to Amy Winehouse - “it’s awesome for me because she’s a vocal anomaly, I know that I’m a vocal anomaly too and I love that. But the message has always been at the forefront for me, the music is just a conduit to get the point across of who I am”. Deluxe edition of 'To Myself' is out now.

"The 25-year-old Atlanta-based artist’s voice is deep yet vulnerable; husky and cavernous" - the Guardian says in its introduction of R'n'B singer Baby Rose. She has been dubbed “the new voice of R&B”, with songs as "mere dressing for her gauzy introspection".