Mahalia Burkmar以舞台名称Mahalia（1998年5月1日出生）而闻名，是英国歌手，词曲作者和演员，主要在伯明翰活动。Mahalia发行了几张EP和一张专辑“ Diary Of Me”（2016）。她演的是电影“ 兄弟会”（2016年）。她在八岁时写了她的第一首歌，并在十三岁时与一家大唱片公司签订了协议。 　　Mahalia Burkmar (born 1 May 1998), known mononymously as Mahalia, is a British Jamaican singer, songwriter and actress. Mahalia has released several EPs and two albums, Diary of Me (2016) and Love and Compromise (2019). She also acted in the film Brotherhood (2016).She had her breakthrough in 2017 with her performance of "Sober" for the YouTube channel Colors. In 2018, she was ranked number one on YouTube's Ones to Watch list. 　　Mahalia is from Syston, Charnwood, in Leicestershire.She was born to musician parents.Her father is British-Irish and her mother is Jamaican.Mahalia has described the town she grew up in as a predominantly white area with "a lot of racism".She has a brother. 　　She attended Roundhill Community College until she signed a record deal aged 13, when she transferred to a performing arts school,Birmingham Ormiston Academy, where she took acting classes. 　　As a child she would often spend her summer breaks at home writing music[citation needed]—she wrote her first song at age eightand signed a deal with Asylum Records at age 13.[14]She performed live for the first time aged "eleven, or maybe 12" at an open mic.She released her debut EP, Head Space, in 2012.Mahalia was later introduced to Ed Sheeran,who she went on to perform as a supporting act for. 　　In 2019, Mahalia was featured on BBC Radio 1's Brit List.Her album Love and Compromise was released on marketed as her debut album. The album concept was influenced by an interview with Eartha Kitt, which Mahalia's mother showed her when she was a child. 　　Mahalia won Best Female Act and Best R&B/Soul Act at the 2020 MOBO Awards. 　　In 2021, she released "Jealous", a collaboration with American rapper Rico Nasty.She was nominated for her first Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.Mahalia was included in the 2021 Forbes Under 30 list.