Mereba

Mereba moves freely from soul-rooted progressive R&B to folk to hip-hop while favoring a narrative approach to songwriting. Deeply connected to the South, the singer/rapper, multi-instrumentalist, and producer honed her talents in Atlanta, where she became part of the Dreamville-affiliated Spillage Village collective. She got her start as a solo artist with folk-soul recordings including the Room for Living EP (2013), and made her major-label debut with The Jungle Is the Only Way Out (2019), a wide-ranging album featuring collaborations with 9th Wonder (“Black Truck”) and Spillage Village associates JID (“Sandstorm”) and 6LACK (“Heatwave”). Following Azeb (2021), an EP highlighted by the affectionate and lullaby-like “Rider,” Mereba appeared primarily as a collaborator on songs headlined by the likes of Saba, Ravyn Lenae, and Baby Rose. Signed to Secretly Canadian, she returned with “Counterfeit” as the first preview of her second album, The Breeze Grew a Fire (2025). ~ Andy Kellman