Hope Tala will play live aboard Thekla in Bristol on Wednesday 26th November 2025. Support from BINA.
Hope Tala is emerging from her very own cultural reset of sorts. The West Londoner made a name for herself as a uni student, folding her inspiration and experience into an intimate musical language that feels equal parts romance and philosophy. Self-taught on the guitar at age 14, raised on the tones of Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu and D’Angelo, the words of Maya Angelou, Zadie Smith, Sylvia Plath and Toni Morrison, her poetic lyricism and singularly hypnotic vocals have gained her enamoured fans in everyone from Dazed and Billboard to Barack Obama through to the HBO team behind the new gen Gossip Girls remake. Now based between LA and London, the 26-year-old artist has made her return to the scene with the brooding single ‘I Can’t Even Cry, her first release since 2022. “The reason for new music taking so long was logistical and business-related | guess, but | will say it’s given me the opportunity to make a lot of music that I wouldn’t have been able to make oth-erwise.” After beginning the writing process back in 2021, the last few years have been full of transformation, self discovery and life lessons for Hope and this next stage sees her gearing towards her debut album top of next year.
