Bella Barbe

North London’s Bella Barbe makes music that moves between soul, poetry and raw rap with a confidence far beyond her years. Writing and performing since childhood, her influences stretch from Kate Bush and Portishead to Erykah Badu and Wu-Tang Clan — a range that still shapes a sound that is both haunting and unmistakably rooted in the city.
Her debut project Bird of Prey introduced a fully formed world and a fiercely independent rise, driven by word of mouth and real-life connection. That momentum has quickly translated into packed-out rooms, returning audiences and growing support from key tastemakers across BBC Radio 1.
With a voice that can shift from intimate and fragile to vast and commanding — before dropping into a direct London cadence — Bella is establishing herself as one of the most distinctive new artists coming through the UK.