Stella and her incredible band The Shakes mix feel-good soul, jazz, blues and gospel sounds with polemical lyrics; touching on the social, political and psychological ideas that she feels passionately about.

Over the past few years Stella supported by The Shakes has been exciting audiences with her unique sound (in venues such as The Jazz Cafe, The Bedford and the O2 as part of The Brits), have won the Mayor of London's GIGS competition in 2013 (as well as being awarded the competitions songwriting prize), and was short listed for Jazz FM's Love Supreme discovery competition, making the final three.