Sulene Fleming

Born in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1978, Sulene Fleming is a British singer and songwriter whose main vocal influences from an early age were Phyllis Hyman, Betty Wright, Aretha Franklin and Chaka Khan. She started performing with local bands from the age of fifteen, and by eighteen was working as a session singer, demoing songs for EMI, Peer and Sony Music.

From 2016 to 2018 she toured with the Brand New Heavies as their featured vocalist, taking them across the UK, Spain, Holland, Sweden, Germany, Serbia and Japan. Her own solo album Sparkle hit number one in the UK Soul Chart.

In 2019 she began working with Dr Robert of The Blow Monkeys in association with Monks Road Records, singing on numerous recordings for the Monks Road Social projects including the albums Humanism and Out of Bounds. Through Monks Road Social she met Matt Deighton, and she sang with Mother Earth alongside Mick Talbot, Crispin Taylor and Ernie McKone. Yorkshire-born and widely described as the closest thing Britain has to Chaka Khan — a voice that fills every room it enters.