ABRA

ABRA is an outlier. Moving around with her missionary parents, she was born in New York and raised in South London, before eventually landing in Atlanta. Like her upbringing, ABRA's music isn't specific to a place, a time, or a sound. Instead, it's a blend of influences, informed -- but not defined -- by its surroundings. Utilizing different components of Miami Freestyle and electro-funk 808's topped with her own airy R&B-tinged vocals, ABRA's voice and sounds are familiar, but uniquely contemporary. Every note on the Princess EP, out July 15th on True Panther Sounds, is written, produced, and performed by ABRA - often in the solitude of her bedroom closet. Then, as now, she found inspiration in unique juxtapositions, as seen in her early a...