Yaa-Hemaa Obiri-Yeboah

Yaa-Hemaa's debut EP, "Come Hear My Voice",  is available at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/yaahemaa 

Yaa-Hemaa is an artist based in Vancouver. She is a classically trained pianist and a songwriter who incorporates jazz, soul, R&B, and classical genres into her original pieces. Her journey back to music came about following several twists and turns. After graduating from the University of British Columbia and the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, she began a career as a federal public servant. She realized though that she pined for the fulfillment and contentment she felt when being creative. Yaa-Hemaa took a leap in 2013, booked regular gigs in Ottawa and soon began writing the soulful, intimate, and thought-provoking songs for her first EP, “Come Hear My Voice”. One of those songs, "Sunday", reached the regional semi-finals of CBC's Searchlight: The Hunt for Canada's Best New Artist competition and exposed Yaa-Hemaa’s music to an even wider audience.