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My Take
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.
Overview
Ella Mai Howell (born 3 November 1994) is an English R&B singer and songwriter. Her career began at London's British and Irish Modern Music Institute in 2014, during which time she auditioned as part of a trio on the 11th season of The X Factor. In 2015, she released her debut four-track solo extended play (EP), Troubled in October of that year.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter / composer / blues musician / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Queens High School of Teaching
- University
- BIMM University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://ellamai.com/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ellamai/
- Xhttps://x.com/ellamai
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.