The big leap for Ella Mai
by Gerrick D. Kennedy, Los Angeles Times
Jan 03, 2018
3 minutes
Before Ella Mai turned to Instagram, she didn't think her music would ever reach anyone.
It was summer 2015, and the singer-songwriter was studying at the British and Irish Modern Music Institute when a light bulb went off: "I literally had an epiphany. Like, 'What am I really doing?'" she remembered.
Wanting to get her voice out there more, Mai posted a clip of herself singing a soulful twist of Fetty Wap's trap anthem "679" for her
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