Billie Black is a British singer from

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Biography

Black attended the

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and studied

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at the

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. She released her first single, "I Waited for You", in June 2014, to positive reviews from ''

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'' magazine's

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blog and '' Clash'' magazine. Black was profiled in ''Clash'' magazine in August 2014 and released her debut EP, ''000 100'', in November. Her second EP, ''Teach Me'', was released in May 2015, and Black featured in that month's British edition of ''Vogue'' magazine. A third EP, ''This Simple Pleasure'', followed in August. Black describes her music as "subtle groovy tunes that make people sway" and "combining the old with new", listing jazz among her influences alongside

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styles including dub, minimal, and house. ''

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'' wrote in September 2014 that Black "makes the kind of breathy, modern soul that sounds simultaneously welcoming and strangely unnerving", comparing her favourably to

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Discography

Extended plays

*''000 100'' (2014) *''Teach Me'' (2015) *''This Simple Pleasure'' (2015)

References

External links

* 1990s births Living people Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama English electronic musicians English jazz singers English soul singers British women jazz singers People educated at the BRIT School Singers from London English women in electronic music 21st-century English women singers 21st-century English singers {{UK-singer-stub