Delilah

Delilah, a British vocalist, specializes in atmospheric R&B, trip-hop, and electronic pop of the singer/songwriter variety. Her introduction to the public arrived via the 2012 release From the Roots Up, which climbed into the U.K. Top Ten.

She was born Paloma Stoecker in France in 1990 and relocated to North London with her mother during childhood. Her stepfather, a DJ and record-label owner who perished in a car crash in 2002, prompted her to begin composing original material. Following secondary school, Stoecker pursued studies in entertainment law and music technology at City and Islington College, a period that also marked the start of her recording sessions. Atlantic Records signed her in 2009 when she was 17. A few years afterward, she selected Delilah—the name of her Cuban great-grandmother—as a stage name to distinguish herself from pop singer Paloma Faith.

In 2012 she issued her debut album From the Roots Up, which contained the single “Go” together with a cover of Minnie Riperton’s “Inside My Love” and reached number five on the U.K. Albums Chart. The same year she served as opening act for Prince on multiple dates of his Australian tour.