Yaya Bey

Yaya Bey (aka Hadaiyah Bey) is a singer-songwriter and an R&B artist whose songs float freely across genres, picking up different bits and pieces from across the board. There are a some jazzy elements in her music, specifically the quiet kind where we hear some gentle chords in the background or a turn in the bass line or some swing in the beats. Other times she slides towards hip-hop and raps, doing so often in a relatively quiet manner. She keeps her arrangements relatively sparse and restrained, stays sharply focused on what she wants to say and gets out of the way. The result is a remarkable string of songs that are compact, concise, with all the pop artifice stripped out, connecting directly with the audience.