Ella Mai

Ella Mai is, to me, one of the cleanest R&B success stories of the streaming era. An English singer who went from busking-style beginnings and a 2014 audition with The X Factor trio to actually breaking through with the slow-burn smash Boo'd Up, she rewrote what a UK R&B artist could achieve stateside. Her career launching out of London's BIMM institute and that 2015 EP Troubled showed she put in the apprenticeship before the fame. I love how unhurried her phrasing is, all texture and restraint. She proved real R&B never went anywhere, it just needed the right voice to remind everyone.

Name (English)

Ella Mai

Name (Japanese)

エラ・メイ

Reading

えら・めい

Born

November 3, 1994 (age 31)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dog

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

singer-songwriter / composer / blues musician / musician

High school

Queens High School of Teaching

University

BIMM University

• Official sitehttps://ellamai.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ellamai/
• Xhttps://x.com/ellamai
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella%20Mai
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29033458

Tags

• singer-songwriter
• composer
• blues musician

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.