Imelda Gabs and her edgy single “Alter Ego”

“Alter Ego” is the second single by Belgian-Congolese artist Imelda Gabs, and it gives a taste of what her debut EP will be. Raw and empowering, the song carries a message of strength and power and expressed how fighting inner demons can turn into a vicious circle.

The 23-year-old artist has a very distinct and varied sound which mixes different aspects of electro and acoustic music, as her debut single “Fallen Angel” already showed.

Her music career started very early. At 14, she had her live debut at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels alongside her late father, jazz pianist Doctor Gabs, and after that she went on performing with organ legend Rhoda Scott and Miriam Makeba’s former drummer, Vic Jewel Pitts.

In 2017 she performed one of her first written songs, “Heartbeat”, at the Montreux Jazz Academy with famous bass player Marcus Miller, and then got invited to open for Lianne La Havas and The Roots at Montreux Jazz Festival, where she got re-invited in 2021 to join the line-up. Her debut EP is on the way, and we can’t wait to hear it.

Listen to Alter Ego below