To the world we dream about— Our new Persephone, Yola, performed an unreleased song of hers titled “Temporary” at the Playbill Pride concert in Times Square on Friday! 🌈
I’ve been hinting at a different musical direction for years, because I’ve been wanting to get back to where I started, when I first moved to London. I moved into a hotbed of music that made me, and it’s time I shared that vibe with you. It’s taken a while but finally I can do things my way 💕
Your girl is “Livin’ it up on top” starring in @hadestown on #broadway! Who’s seen the show? Who’s coming? Let me know 💃🏾❤️ ・・・ Look what made it up top! Brand new photos from the Underworld. 📸: @evzmm for @murphymade
My girl #Yola is an amazing person. I loved her in #ElvisMovie as #SisterRosettaTharpe but meeting and working with her the past few months on #Hadestown as #Persephone has been a joy. I have grown to respect her as an artist and love her as a human being. 🌹💛🌹💛🌹💛 Now the secret is out, #Yola has #newmusic loading. 🥰🎵🎵🎵🎵🥰 A true student of music will always embrace the stylings of the greats and then create their own magic. I’m not sure if the world is ready, but I AM!!! Let’s go #Yola (Photo Dump) 🙌🏾 🙌🏾 #POWER 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛 #HadestownMusical #broadway #inspiration #YolaFanAndFriend
My girl #Yola is an amazing person. I loved her in #ElvisMovie as #SisterRosettaTharpe but meeting and working with her the past few months on #Hadestown as #Persephone has been a joy. I have grown to respect her as an artist and love her as a human being. 🌹💛🌹💛🌹💛 Now the secret is out, #Yola has #newmusic loading. 🥰🎵🎵🎵🎵🥰 A true student of music will always embrace the stylings of the greats and then create their own magic. I’m not sure if the world is ready, but I AM!!! Let’s go #Yola (Photo Dump) 🙌🏾 🙌🏾 #POWER 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛 #HadestownMusical #broadway #inspiration #YolaFanAndFriend
My girl #Yola is an amazing person. I loved her in #ElvisMovie as #SisterRosettaTharpe but meeting and working with her the past few months on #Hadestown as #Persephone has been a joy. I have grown to respect her as an artist and love her as a human being. 🌹💛🌹💛🌹💛 Now the secret is out, #Yola has #newmusic loading. 🥰🎵🎵🎵🎵🥰 A true student of music will always embrace the stylings of the greats and then create their own magic. I’m not sure if the world is ready, but I AM!!! Let’s go #Yola (Photo Dump) 🙌🏾 🙌🏾 #POWER 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛 #HadestownMusical #broadway #inspiration #YolaFanAndFriend
My girl #Yola is an amazing person. I loved her in #ElvisMovie as #SisterRosettaTharpe but meeting and working with her the past few months on #Hadestown as #Persephone has been a joy. I have grown to respect her as an artist and love her as a human being. 🌹💛🌹💛🌹💛 Now the secret is out, #Yola has #newmusic loading. 🥰🎵🎵🎵🎵🥰 A true student of music will always embrace the stylings of the greats and then create their own magic. I’m not sure if the world is ready, but I AM!!! Let’s go #Yola (Photo Dump) 🙌🏾 🙌🏾 #POWER 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛 #HadestownMusical #broadway #inspiration #YolaFanAndFriend
My girl #Yola is an amazing person. I loved her in #ElvisMovie as #SisterRosettaTharpe but meeting and working with her the past few months on #Hadestown as #Persephone has been a joy. I have grown to respect her as an artist and love her as a human being. 🌹💛🌹💛🌹💛 Now the secret is out, #Yola has #newmusic loading. 🥰🎵🎵🎵🎵🥰 A true student of music will always embrace the stylings of the greats and then create their own magic. I’m not sure if the world is ready, but I AM!!! Let’s go #Yola (Photo Dump) 🙌🏾 🙌🏾 #POWER 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛 #HadestownMusical #broadway #inspiration #YolaFanAndFriend
My girl #Yola is an amazing person. I loved her in #ElvisMovie as #SisterRosettaTharpe but meeting and working with her the past few months on #Hadestown as #Persephone has been a joy. I have grown to respect her as an artist and love her as a human being. 🌹💛🌹💛🌹💛 Now the secret is out, #Yola has #newmusic loading. 🥰🎵🎵🎵🎵🥰 A true student of music will always embrace the stylings of the greats and then create their own magic. I’m not sure if the world is ready, but I AM!!! Let’s go #Yola (Photo Dump) 🙌🏾 🙌🏾 #POWER 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛 #HadestownMusical #broadway #inspiration #YolaFanAndFriend
New poster alert!! Ya girl is now on the billboards at the front of the theatre with the icon that is @philliptheboycan!! You’ll notice the amazing @taraatee in the background too, thanks for this lovely post!! Let’s go @hadestown!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🤩🤩🤩🩷🩷🩷 #broadway #poster #billboard #music #musical #hadestown
Did you know this? This had been on my mind a while now. The anti- blackness of anti-fat bias is wild and so insidious! Think about how easy it is to disguise a disdain for fat people (especially femmes) in plain sight. It’s something that is less prevalent in black culture (though not absent because the programming of Eurocentrism still permeates black and brown minds too). It’s useful to know the cause especially if it turns up as unconscious bias! #fatphobia #colonialism #racism #programming #bias Source: @tanita.dee
Fun fact: Ya girl and Harry share a birthday!! The character Harry Potter was also born on July 31st! I tested as a Griffindor on #pottermore but I was close to Slytherin answers at times, just chose different. I know this is such a millennial post- it’s my birthday- I can do what i like 😂😂😂! I just watch the original movies and read the books no new stuff obvs since all that TERF bigotry! Big love to all my lions out there, be you Griffindors or Leo’s 🦁 #leoseason #griffindor #potterhead #lions #birthday
Happy #juneteenth! May your melanin pop extra hard today if you have some! May your blackness be more than skin deep today, so your acceptance requires real change in the most closeted of bigots. Let’s celebrate black freedom every day but especially today! 🥳🥳🥳✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 #juneteeth #happy #blackandproud #genrefluid #free #freedom
HEY NEW MEXICO FANS! We’re just days away from my headlining slot at She Rises Music Festival in Taos, NM! 🎶✨ Whether you’re coming to dance, sing along, or just soak up the vibes, this festival is all about empowering women in music and building a community that supports the work of Music Helps non profit, utilizing the healing power of music for children suffering from trauma and abuse. So yes you can get lit 🔥 and do good by doing so- aren’t we clever! 😁 Grab your tickets through the link in my bio! 🎉See you soon! 🌟 #SheRisesFestival #YolaLive #TaosMusicFestival #newmexico #livemusic #festival #festivalseason #festivals
Happy Carnival UK fam!! 🥳🥳🥳✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾My late mother used to take me to carnivals all over, from my hometown of Bristol to all the way up to Leicester. When I moved to London though Notting Hill became my favourite carnival! It’s one of the things I miss about uk, hope you all did a whine for me!! #carnival #babylon 💃🏾 #Repost @adannay.music ・・・ Can’t wait to see all the flags from the Islands tomorrow. Carnival was and always will be a deep part of our culture and in the UK it is a loud and celebratory form of resistance and protest too ✊🏾 shout out to @nhcarnivalldn and tallawah.@uk for helping us learn more about who we are as caribbeans in Britain with the Carnival Conversations series! 🇹🇹🇧🇧🇻🇨🇬🇾🇰🇳🇯🇲🇬🇩🇦🇬🇭🇹
I’ve been invited to feature on @gesmithmusic’s Portraits at the Guildhall in the Hamptons and I’d love for you to join me. I’ll be playing some new music and being interviewed by G.E. Smith as part of his summer series! Get your tickets at @guild_hall’s link in bio. Can’t wait to see you there!! #newyork #thehamptons #hamptons #livemusic
