Hope Tala

Hope Tala is emerging from her very own cultural reset. Making her mark crafting an intimate musical language that feels equal parts romantic and philosophical, the West Londoner has made her return to the scene with aplomb in 2024. Raised on the silken tones of Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu and D’Angelo as well as the razor-sharp words of Maya Angelou, Zadie Smith, Sylvia Plath and Toni Morrison, her own balmy poetic soundscapes have already gained her fans in everyone from Dazed and Billboard to Barack Obama through to the HBO team behind the new gen Gossip Girls remake. Yet with all the transformation and growth of the last few years for the British-Jamaican songwriter, the warm, glowing heart and whimsy of Hope’s signature still remains intact - a place to escape to and feel both soothed and seen.