Late Night Jazz: Ego Ella May at Royal Albert Hall

Fresh off being nominated in the Best Jazz Category at the 2025 MOBO Awards and releasing her latest critically-acclaimed project FIELDNOTES: COMPLETE, South London singer Ego Ella May takes to the stage for a special performance in the Elgar Room.

A British-Nigerian award-winning singer-songwriter and musician, Ego has an all-encompassing love of music, which she channels into her own genre-blending R&B, neo-soul and contemporary jazz compositions.

She has a high level of admiration for people who show their vulnerabilities through music, and uses this as a source of inspiration; "It's so easy to lie to yourself and others, so I really admire people who have the audacity to be truthful". Her songwriting takes influences from equal measures of reflective moments of solitude and conversations with friends, which she demonstrates with effortless power in each unique voicing.

The fast rising talent is quickly building a noteworthy catalogue of releases including her impressive 2020 debut LP Honey for Wounds, a soul-tingling blend of jazz, R&B and neo soul vocal musicality. Incredibly honest, self-penned, personal and observational lyrics are laced with tales of self-healing, protest, love and loss, global issues and more. She followed this up with her FIELDNOTES series of EP releases and is set to release her eager anticipated sophomore album in 2025.