Liela Moss

With the Duke Spirit, collaborators including Unkle and Simon Raymonde, and on her own, Liela Moss is a powerful and versatile singer. Her ethereal upper register and smoky lower tones work equally well with bluesy rock, electronic music, dream-pop, or the lush, string-laden ballads of her 2018 solo album My Name Is Safe in Your Mouth. During her teenage years, Moss was a die-hard music fan -- particularly of the riot grrrl movement -- but didn't begin singing until she was 19. While studying photography at an art college in Cheltenham, England, her flatmate Luke Ford recru...