Mabel

Mabel Alabama-Pearl McVey (born 19 February 1996) is an R&B and pop singer and songwriter.

Mabel Alabama-Pearl McVey was born on 19 February 1996 in Alhaurín el Grande, Málaga, Spain.

She is the youngest child of English music producer Cameron McVey and Swedish singer Neneh Cherry.

Through her mother, Mabel is the step-granddaughter of the American jazz musician Don Cherry, granddaughter of Swedish-Sierra Leonean highlife and afrobeat musician Ahmadu Jah and the niece of Swedish singers Eagle-Eye Cherry and Titiyo.

Her sister Tyson, half-sister Naima and half-brother Marlon Roudette are also singers.

The family lived in Alhaurín el Grande for two years prior to Mabel's birth before relocating back to Notting Hill, West London, England when she was two years old.

At age four, she taught herself to read through phonetics and audiobooks, but soon developed anxiety from being sensitive to her surroundings and being bullied due to racial backgrounds.

Her parents—who were against the use of medication—encouraged Mabel to express herself through music and a journal.

The following year, she learned piano and wrote her first song.

To help manage her anxiety, the family moved to Sweden when she was eight and lived in her mother's native countryside home near the town of Hässleholm in southern Sweden, and later moved to Stockholm in October 2004.

First she attended an international school, but later transferred to Kulturama a school with aesthetic training and courses including musical, music & song as well as visuall arts and design.

At age 15, Mabel enrolled at the Stockholm music school Rytmus Musikergymnasiet (a music high school) where she took a three-year course in songwriting, production and music theory.

She commented on her time at the school on Swedish radio: "I was drawn to RnB and wanted to write songs on piano, but the most popular students wrote indie songs on guitar."

While in high school she had a popular Swedish style blog, chronicling her girl-gang's style.

It was so successful that it landed her in the front row of international runway shows with her mother Neneh Cherry, including the likes of Stella McCartney and the Paris Fashion Week.

Mabel's stylist is her Swedish high school friend Simone Beyene

Mabel told Swedish morning show Nyhetsmorgon that she moved to London as soon as she graduated Rytmus musikgymnasium in Stockholm because she found the London R&B scene appetizing.

Mabel released her debut single "Know Me Better" in July 2015, which caught the attention of BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac, who made the song her Tune of the Week.

Within weeks, Mabel signed a recording contract with Universal.

The daughter of English music producer Cameron McVey and Swedish singer Neneh Cherry, she rose to prominence in 2017 with her single "Finders Keepers" which peaked at number eight on the UK Singles Chart.

In March 2017, after the releases of the 2015 and 2016 singles "My Boy My Town" and "Thinking Of You", she released "Finders Keepers" featuring British rapper Kojo Funds, which reached the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart in late 2017.

In May 2017, she released her debut extended play Bedroom.

In October 2017, Mabel released "Begging", the lead single from her debut mixtape Ivy to Roses, which was released shortly after.

In December, she collaborated with Not3s on "My Lover".

Following the January 2018 release of a second Not3s collaboration, "Fine Line", Mabel opened for English singer Harry Styles during the European part of the second leg of a tour in the support of his debut studio album.

After her tour with Styles, she embarked on her own headline tour through the United Kingdom and Europe.

In June, she was featured on "Ring Ring" alongside American rapper Rich the Kid and British DJ Jax Jones.

Later that year, after releasing "One Shot", she co-wrote "Blind", a song for British girl group Four of Diamonds.

Her debut studio album High Expectations released in 2019 entered the UK Albums Chart at number three and was certified platinum.

It included the UK top 10 singles: "Don't Call Me Up", "Mad Love" and "Boyfriend".

In January 2019, Mabel was nominated for British Breakthrough Act at the 2019 Brit Awards.

She re-released Ivy to Roses with a new cover art and the inclusion of all the singles that had been released since the first edition's release.

With this, Mabel also released "Don't Call Me Up", which debuted at number 11 on the UK Singles Chart.

The song peaked at number 3, becoming her highest-charting single to date.

On 7 June 2019, she released "Mad Love", the second single from her debut studio album, High Expectations, which was released on 2 August that year.

The song debuted at number 18 in the UK, later peaking at number 8.

She won the Brit Award for British Female Solo Artist in 2020.

Her second studio album About Last Night... was released in 2022.

It was supported by the release of its lead single "Let Them Know".

The album peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart becoming her highest-charting album on the chart.