Lyrics | Artists

Charts

Genres

Images

Mahalia

Soul music

Contemporary R&B

Neo soul

Born on May 1, 1998, in Syston, Charnwood, Mahalia Burkmar started playing guitar and writing songs as a child, penning her first song, "My Angel," at the age of 8. She comes from a musical family, her mother played for the 1980s synth band Colourbox and her father sang and played guitar with the electro-pop outfit Erasure. Her live debut came at the age of 12 in a venue called The Musician in her hometown of Leicester. She waited another year before penning her next song "Let the World See the Light." After this, she was signed to Atlantic Records when she was just 13. In 2012, ...