Sabrina Claudio - No Rain No Flowers (2018)

Sabrina Claudio is an R&B-rooted singer and songwriter who favors ballads that are low-key and aching in nature. As a youngster, she first soaked up the dance music she heard in her native Miami, Florida and was eventually drawn to pop-oriented contemporary R&B like Mariah Carey and Destiny's Child. Her first major steps as a recording artist were made in 2016, when she appeared on songs by the Classmatez ("No Titles") and Duckwrth ("I'm Dead"), and uploaded an EP titled Confidently Lost. Within the span of half-a-year, her track-play count was in the millions. Her debut full-length, About Time offered a couple tracks form the EP, as well as the pre-release singles "Unravel Me" and "Belong to You"; the digital-only "mixtape" charted in 31 countries. ~ Andy Kellman