Laura Mvula (née Douglas)is a British soul singer-songwriter from Birmingham. Her debut album Sing to the Moon, was released on March 4, 2013,Mvula grew up in the Birmingham suburbs of Selly Park and Kings Heath with two younger siblings, and was influenced by the girl band Eternal, In 2005, Mvula sang with Black Voices, an a cappella group set up by her aunt,In 2008, she formed a jazz/neo-soul group called Judyshouse, singing lead vocals and writing material for the band, She is also Director of the Lichfield Community Gospel Choir, founded by Black Voices and Lichfield Festival in 2009, She also frequently directs the Alvechurch Community Choir, She graduated from the Birmingham Conservatoire with a degree in composition, While she was working as a supply teacher in a Birmingham secondary school, she started writing songs on her laptop,She was working as a receptionist when she sent out two demos to several people in the music industry, One of them, Steve Brown, heard the songs and sent them to his manager Kwame Kwaten who would become Laura's manager, Laura is married to singer Themba Mvula