A Little Sound

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A Little Sound
Birth nameAbigail Kate Morgan
Born Taunton, England
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  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • social media personality
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Abigail Kate Morgan, known professionally as A Little Sound, is an English drum and bass musician and TikToker. She won Best Vocalist at the Drum&BassArena Awards 2022. She is a member of Loud LDN.

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Life and career

Early life and releases

Abigail Kate Morgan [1] grew up in Taunton. [2] She spent a year studying at a university in Chichester before moving to Bristol to study at the city's British and Irish Modern Music Institute. [3] She started writing songs when she was ten, [2] and uploading covers of popular acoustic and country songs to her YouTube channel "A Little Sound" when she was eleven, [2] which she then started annotating with drum and bass after finding her tracks weren't attracting views. [4] One cover version, of "Reality" by Lost Frequencies, attracted 100,000 views, which brought her to the attention of Kanine; [3] Morgan would feature on two records by them, "Face Away" on 25 October 2019, and "Back In Time" on 21 February 2020. [1]

On 28 February 2020, she featured on Gray's "Fallen"; she and Gray would work together again on 4 November 2022's "Memories". On 3 June 2020, she featured on Technimatic's "Lakota", [1] which she wrote about meeting her boyfriend at Lakota, and recorded just before the March 2020 UK lockdown. [4] The song has been streamed more than 5,000,000 times. [5] On 5 August 2022 she featured on their "Confide"; [1] she came to their attention after they saw her cover of their "Parallel". [3] On 17 August 2020, she and DJ Gaw and Selecta J-Man released "Rum & Lime"; she and DJ Gaw would later release "Feels Wrong" on 20 August 2021, and on 6 January 2023 [1] she and Inja featured on Mandidextrous and Selecta J-Man's "Hold Your Rhythm", from Boomtown's "Chapter One: The Gathering"'s closing ceremony. [6]

Later releases

On 1 September 2020 she featured on Shapes' "Our Time". On 18 November 2020, she featured on Annix's "Overload"; she and Annix would later release "Kaleidoscope" on 22 June 2021. On 27 November 2020 she featured on Levela's "Moving Forward". On 5 March 2021, she and Sonic Rain released "Stuck in the Mindset", and on 28 May 2021, she and Zero released "Sorry 4 Skanking". On 25 June 2021, Paul T & Edward Oberon released "Wake Up" with A Little Sound, and on 20 August 2021 she and Low:r released "Be There". On 7 January 2022, she and Vibe Chemistry featured on an Allstars MIC, [1] a fortnightly DnB Allstars series; [7] she would on 9 June 2023 feature on the official remix of Rudimental, Charlotte Plank and Vibe Chemistry's "Dancing is Healing". [1]

On 4 February 2022, she and Document One released "Back To Me", and on 22 April 2022 she and Kleu released "Something Bout U". On 9 September 2022, she featured on Friction's "Weed & Wine (Relax, Rewind)". On 1 November 2022, she released her début solo single, "Breathe"; she would later release "The Other Side" with Dr. Meaker on 4 November 2022, and the EP A Little Sound on 4 November 2022, which included "Memories", "Breathe" and "The Other Side". [1] On 8 December 2022, she won Best Vocalist at the Drum&BassArena Awards 2022. [8]

Artistry

Her early references were Gabrielle Aplin, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hannah Montana, The Prodigy, and Gorillaz, [2] though her early YouTube videos were inspired by Miley Cyrus. [3] She was introduced to drum and bass after watching Chase & Status perform, and decided to become a drum and bass vocalist after seeing Anne-Marie perform with Rudimental [2] at Boardmasters 2016. [9] She maintains a TikTok account, to which she uploads content with little relevance to her music. [4] She, Piri, Venbee, Charlotte Plank, and Willow Kayne are members of Loud LDN. [10]

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