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About Yola
Yolanda Claire Quartey, known professionally as Yola or Yola Carter, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. Her debut studio album Walk Through Fire (2019) received critical acclaim and earned her four Grammy Award nominations, including Best New Artist. Her follow-up, Stand for Myself (2021), received similar acclaim and earned her two more Grammy nominations. Yola made her acting debut in 2022, portraying "the Godmother of rock and roll" Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Baz Luhrman's biopic Elvis, and later made her Broadway debut in 2024 when she began playing Persephone in Anaïs Mitchell's musical Hadestown.
Everything about Yola →- Occupation
- singer-songwriter, celebrity, film actor, singer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- July 31, 1983
- Website
- https://www.iamyola.com/