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Carrying the Weight of Testimony, Fibi’s Soulful Futurism Redefines London’s Intimate Soundscape
Fibi emerges at the crossroads where vintage soul meets contemporary sonic play. Coming from a multicultural background, with roots spanning Nigeria, The Netherlands, and the UK, she’s now growing her tendrils into the underground London soul scene.
With a honey-dipped voice and a distinctive writing style, Fibi blends neo-soul and afro-diasporic influenced sounds with the heart of 90s R&B. A true student of music, raised on gospel, jazz, and soul, she pioneers an essence of play into the blend of genre, race, and era. Her lyrical storytelling offers listeners a pathway beyond the fallacies of ‘otherness’ that shapes so much of contemporary life.
Fibi aims to shed a bright light on the themes of love, death, and hope within her music, always holding honesty as the hallmark of her art. Drawing from the tapestry of sonic influences that paved the way before her, including Stevie Wonder, Lauryn Hill, and Fela Kuti, Fibi is the gift of nostalgia as it charts its brave path towards the boundless innovation that the future promises.
Though new to the scene, she promises a lifetime of creation in servitude of this identity. Fibi is forging a lineage of sound like no other: a vocal-powerhouse championing the evergreens of tradition with the modern textures and genre-fluidity whimsy that molds her world.
Her arrival in London coincides with a moment where the city’s underground soul circuit is redefining itself—less about polished spectacle, more about raw communion. Fibi’s performances, often in intimate venues where the crowd stands shoulder to shoulder, carry the weight of testimony. Each set feels less like entertainment and more like a gathering, where her voice becomes a vessel for collective memory and shared release.
What sets her apart is not only her technical command but her refusal to dilute complexity. She writes with the precision of a journalist and the vulnerability of a diarist, weaving narratives that resist easy categorization. In doing so, Fibi positions herself as a chronicler of diasporic experience—an artist who insists that soul music can still be a site of truth, resistance, and renewal.
She’ll be gracing the following stages soon:
Dec 14th – LVLS, London
Dec 18th – The Forge, London
