Natanya Popoola is a British-Caribbean-Nigerian singer, songwriter, and producer from North-West London whose music fuses R&B, alt-pop, neo-soul, jazz, and Caribbean influences into what she calls an 'unboxable' sound. Born September 5, 2002 to an Indo-Trinidadian mother and Nigerian father, she trained at the Julian Joseph Jazz Academy, earned a degree in English Literature at UCL, and released her debut EP 'Sorrow At Sunrise' in 2023. Her 2025 EP 'Feline's Return' (via Human Re-Sources, co-produced with Oscar Scheller) earned co-signs from SZA, Doechii, Tyler, The Creator, and Janet Jackson, a BBC Radio 1 premiere, and features on Billboard's '15 Hip-Hop, Caribbean and R&B Artists to Watch in 2026.' Her alter ego 'Feline' - a catlike seductress with a signature cat-eye - anchors a fiercely self-directed creative vision that has drawn comparisons to early-era SZA while carving out entirely new territory.
Saam Sultan is a 20-year-old UK-based underground rapper, singer, and self-taught producer making waves in 2025-2026 with a sound that fuses cloud rap, UK indie-rap, and ambient nostalgia. Born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, raised across Barbados and Brighton, and operating under the alias 'ydoifeel', he has built a cult following with misty, hazy self-produced tracks that evoke the Skins-era UK indie soundtrack while capturing the 2026 indie zeitgeist — earning features in NME, VMAN, and OnesToWatch Class of 2026.
Sophia Stel is a 27-year-old Vancouver-based Canadian alt-pop artist, singer, and self-producer whose music blends dreamy synths, auto-tuned alto vocals, skittering breakbeats, and rave-adjacent textures into something critics call the 'sonic lovechild of Ethel Cain and 070 Shake.' Growing up on Vancouver Island in a large religious household with 10 siblings, she taught herself production on GarageBand before building a makeshift studio in a nightclub basement. After years of bartending to fund her art, she broke through with her 2024 debut EP Object Permanence, scored a viral TikTok moment with 'I'll Take It' (8.6M+ Spotify streams), walked the Ann Demeulemeester SS26 runway, graced the NME cover, and in early 2026 became only the second artist signed to A24 Music - all while recording mostly from home on a 2013 MacBook.
Ty Myers is an 18-year-old country-soul singer-songwriter from Dripping Springs, Texas, who turned a catastrophic football injury into a music career that has amassed over 1.1 billion global streams. Signed to Columbia Records at 17, his debut album The Select went Gold, spawning the Platinum-certified singles 'Ends of the Earth' and 'Thought It Was Love.' With a sound critics call 'John Mayer's Texas country cousin' — bluesy guitars, soulful vocals, and classic country storytelling — Myers released his second album Heavy on the Soul in March 2026 and is opening for Luke Combs on a 2026 arena tour.
Yel (채옐) is a Korean-Singaporean singer-songwriter and bedroom-pop artist based between California and Seoul. Growing up in Singapore before moving to the University of California, Irvine, she began releasing lo-fi R&B sketches on SoundCloud in 2020 and has since built a devoted following through a string of intimate, memory-soaked EPs. Her 2025 breakthrough project Perfect Blue - described by OnesToWatch as 'sticky, sultry' and landing her a spot on their Top 30 Artists to Watch in 2026 - cements her as one of the most exciting emerging voices in love-spell R&B and sultry bedroom-pop.