Yebba Sheds Old Beliefs With A New Album

It was 2016, and Yebba’s career was beginning to take off. But 2016 was also the year that something awful happened: Yebba’s mother committed suicide. And that changed everything, too.

Now, after years of collaborating with artists the likes of Sam Smith, PJ Morton and Robert Glasper, Yebba has her own standalone album. It’s called Dawn, a reference to her mother’s name. In this chat, Yebba and Sam talk about the emotional toll it took to make Dawn, growing up in the church, and shedding old beliefs while making room for new ones.