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Abigail Kate Morgan (born 17 February 1999), known professionally as A Little Sound, is an English
drum and bass Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast Break (music)#Breakbeat (element of music), breakbeats (typically 165–185 Tempo, beats per minute) with heavy Bass (music) ...
musician, songwriter and DJ. She won Best Vocalist at the Drum&BassArena Awards 2022 and Best Vocalist & Best Female DJ at the Drum & Bass Awards 2024.


Life and career


Early life and releases

Abigail Kate Morgan was born on 17 February 1999 and was raised in
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. She spent a year studying at a university in
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before moving to
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to study at the city's
British and Irish Modern Music Institute BIMM University (BIMM) is a private university specialising in music, film, performing arts and creative technology. The university is principally based in the United Kingdom with other centres in Ireland and Germany. It is organised into five a ...
. She started writing songs when she was ten, and uploading covers of popular acoustic and
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songs to her
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channel "A Little Sound" when she was eleven, which she then started annotating with
drum and bass Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast Break (music)#Breakbeat (element of music), breakbeats (typically 165–185 Tempo, beats per minute) with heavy Bass (music) ...
after finding her tracks weren't attracting views. One cover version, of "
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" by
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, attracted 100,000 views, which brought her to the attention of Kanine; Morgan would feature on two records by them, "Face Away" on 25 October 2019, and "Back In Time" on 21 February 2020. 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", which she wrote about meeting her boyfriend at
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, and recorded just before the March 2020 UK lockdown. The song has been streamed more than 5,000,000 times. On 5 August 2022 she featured on their "Confide"; she came to their attention after they saw her cover of their "Parallel". 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 she and Inja featured on Mandidextrous and Selecta J-Man's "Hold Your Rhythm", from
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's "Chapter One: The Gathering"'s closing ceremony.


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, a fortnightly DnB Allstars series; she would on 9 June 2023 feature on the official remix of
Rudimental Rudimental are a British drum and bass band, signed to Asylum Records, Atlantic Records and Black Butter Records. The band consists of Piers Aggett, Kesi Dryden and Leon "Locksmith" Rolle. They were nominated for a Mercury Prize in 2013, and ...
, Charlotte Plank and Vibe Chemistry's "Dancing is Healing". 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
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'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". On 8 December 2022, she won Best Vocalist at the Drum&BassArena Awards 2022. On 30 August 2024, she released the single "
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" alongside group
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, which interpolates their earlier track " Overload". She wrote the track during a session with Billen Ted and Katy Tiz, and was moved to use the hook after Ted began humming its melody. The Sugababes added their harmonies during a subsequent session. On 21 February 2025, A Little Sound released the single "Area Code". On 2 April 2025, she released "Final Breath", a single in collaboration with artist Subtronics, taken from the latter's EP ''Fibonacci Part 1: Oblivion''. She released the single "Override" on 22 April 2025.


Artistry

Her early references were
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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, though her early YouTube videos were inspired by
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. She was introduced to
drum and bass Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast Break (music)#Breakbeat (element of music), breakbeats (typically 165–185 Tempo, beats per minute) with heavy Bass (music) ...
after watching
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perform, and decided to become a drum and bass vocalist after seeing
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perform with
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at Boardmasters 2016. She maintains a
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account, to which she uploads content with little relevance to her music. She, Piri, Venbee, Charlotte Plank, and Willow Kayne are members of
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.


Discography


Extended plays


Singles


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Little Sound, A 1999 births Living people 21st-century English singers 21st-century English women singers English dance musicians English drum and bass musicians English women songwriters English TikTokers People from Taunton Musicians from Somerset Musicians from Bristol