‘Little Life’, the new single from jazz/soul/pop singer Helena Debono, is an upbeat performance with an overshadowing sense of sadness. Inspired by reading Hana Yanagihara’s award winning book ‘Little Life’, the song talks about how much suffering people can endure in love.

Helena explains “After reading the book 'Little Life', I started to reflect on both my own and my friends’ experiences of suffering in love. From the outside everything looks great but only the people involved know the truth and how quickly things can change from being perfect to toxic.”

Helena has been captivating audiences with her emotional renditions of Jazz standards and her own original music since she was a teenager. Her natural, effortless vocals have already received acclaim amongst the UK Jazz scene and leave audiences wanting to hear more.

Classically trained and enjoying all genres of music, it was whilst attending the Arts Educational Schools in London that she discovered her love of jazz and songwriting. She has performed at many venues including Ronnie Scotts, Pizza Express Soho, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Manchester Jazz Festival and many more.

Helena graduated with a BA (hons) first class degree in Jazz Music from Leeds College of Music. She has performed at many venues in Leeds including the Brudenell Social Club and Hifi.

Since returning to London, Helena became the female vocalist for The National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO), during this time she was interviewed by Emma Smith for BBC Radio 3 “Jazz Now”. In the Summer of 2019 Helena was thrilled to perform with ‘The London Gay Big Band’ at London Pride in Trafalgar Square. She has also performed with ‘The Puppini Sisters’. Helena can’t wait for venues to reopen, but in the meantime is looking forward to performing ‘Little Life’ live via a free live stream from Ronnie Scott’s on March 14.