Mix hip hop, jazz, soul, trap and a touch of electronics with English, Portuguese and Angolan roots and you get IAMDDB. The incredibly talented artist from Manchester calls her style urban jazz, but is also often associated with trap jazz. The single “Shade” from 2017 is good for more than 46 million streams on Spotify, and ensured that Diana De Brito got into exactly the right momentum. She was programmed for major festivals such as Dour, Werchter and Down The Rabbit Hole, where with her charming appearance and elegance she already showed that she rules the realm of urban jazz as queen.

Headed by snarky puppy’s multi-grammy–winning percussion duo of robert “sput” searight and nate werth, ghost-note is an explosion of sound. With an expansive roster of next-level musicians—representing members of prince, snoop dogg, erykah badu, herbie hancock, kendrick lamar, marcus miller, toto, justin timberlake, and more—the band is pushing funk music into the future, building on the uplifting, pioneering foundations laid out by the likes of james brown and sly & the family stone and infusing their fresh take with tastes of afrobeat, hip-hop, psychedelia, world folklore, and more.