Terri Walker

In 2003, Terri Walker took her native London with authority.

Untitled, her Def Soul debut, featured 14 slices of hot-buttered neo-soul that relaxed comfortably between tradition and the latest thing; it was an immediate hit, and Walker soon found herself vying against Beyoncé Knowles for Best Album honors at that year's Music of Black Origin (MOBO) awards.

Walker studied opera as a child, and pointed to this training as reason for her fluid, effortlessly shifting vocal style.