Her version of Fetty Wap’s “679” was good enough to get picked up by the popular gossip account “When they reposted it, I had people coming to my page saying, ‘Can you sing this, can you sing that?'” she recalls. When that didn’t pan out, she went solo and began posting 15-second covers of pop songs on Instagram. Arize made a brief appearance in 2014 on the British edition of The X-Factor, the same reality show that introduced the world to One Direction and Leona Lewis. It was there that she formed Arize, a girl group with some of her peers. Having sung since she was a kid - mostly in church with her grandma - she soon realized that she was most passionate about her voice.Įlla Mai came back to London in her late teens to study music, which is how she began writing songs for the first time. As a teen, she went to performing arts school in New York where she focused on musical theater. Mai, who grew up in London, was raised on Lauryn Hill and Missy Elliott, two artists her mom played “religiously” around the house. It wasn’t the first surreal twist in her career. He even sang a bit of its suave, catchy hook back to her. This summer, Ella Mai answered the phone and heard one of her heroes: Stevie Wonder was calling to tell her how much he loves “Boo’d Up,” the R&B sleeper hit that has made her a star this year.
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