A student of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Julia Pratt's body of work reflects the disparate influences acquired in and out of the classroom -- acoustic jazz, downtempo electro-pop, spare folk -- all unified by an expressive voice often heard in stacks of vocal harmonies, as on "A Little Love," her breakthrough 2023 collaboration with Mt. Joy.
Born in Philadelphia, Pratt spent her childhood steeped in music, studying her parents' record collection and learning how to play everything from saxophone to cello. She soon homed in on vocal performance, backing herself u...