Jayo

U.K. vocalist JayO bridges the gap between R&B and Afrobeat on singles like his 2022 debut "XO" and 2023's breakout "22." Born in the North London town of Tottenham, JayO gravitated toward music at a young age, taking in the sounds of his church, music heard on trips to his parents' native Nigeria, and songs on his sister's iPod by American acts like Kanye West, J. Cole, and Kendrick Lamar. He pursued music in earnest as a teenager, cutting songs with his lifelong best friend and schoolmate, songwriter/producer RZ, in a makeshift studio built in a shed behind RZ's family home...