Aussie Gabriella Cilmi is the latest imported pop/soul stylist.

It’s been more than five years since Joss Stone’s debut, The Soul Sessions, was nominated for the coveted Mercury Prize, so it’s easy to forget that the English songstress is only 22.

Nneka is serious about exposing the concrete jungles she’s seen in Nigeria and Germany, jumping from the political to the very personal in each track of her U.S. debut.

'West Africa’s best kept secret' brings the rhythm.

Honest and urban, Stephanie McKay puts the feeling back in to soul music with her self-penned album Tell It Like It Is.