Ella Eyre

A British vocalist whose resonant, soulful tone first drew widespread notice through her work with Rudimental on the 2013 U.K. number-one and Brit Award-winning single “Waiting All Night,” Ella Eyre has stayed a dance-music mainstay. She has traded verses on releases with Sigala, DJ Fresh, and others while delivering her debut album, Feline, in 2015.

Born Ella McMahon in 1994 and raised in Ealing, West London, she trained in musical theater at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology. By nineteen she had already appeared on the chart-topping “Waiting All Night,” pairing her forceful delivery with the inventive beats of fellow Londoners Rudimental. Timed to the release of the drum’n’bass collective’s debut album Home, itself an immediate number one, the track’s success was further amplified by a spring 2013 U.K. tour alongside the group. Though not her first recording credit, the hit markedly lifted her profile and helped confirm Universal’s choice to place her on its new Virgin EMI roster. Listeners awaiting her initial solo material turned instead to Other People’s Heartache, Pt. 2, a 2012 download-only mixtape by the rising London alt-rock band Bastille that carried two Eyre features: “No Angels” and “Free.”

Her own singles soon registered on the charts, beginning with 2013’s “Deeper” and continuing with the 2014 Top 20 entries “If I Go” and “Comeback.” By year’s end she had wrapped her first full-length, Feline, enlisting producers Ilya, DJ Fresh, Sigma, and Sigala. Issued in February 2015, the album reached number four on the British chart; shortly afterward the single “Together” gave her a third Top 20 hit in under a year. A 2017 collaboration with Sigala, “We Came Here for Love,” climbed to number six in the U.K., while later that year “Ego” arrived featuring Ty Dolla $ign. Also in 2017 she joined Artists for Grenfell on their charity recording of “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” Another Sigala track, “Just Got Paid,” which included Meghan Trainor and French Montana, peaked at number 24 on the dance charts in 2018. The following year brought the single “Mama,” recorded with Banx & Ranx and Kiana Ledé.