Three's the charm for Baby Rose as she presents 'YEARNALISM' – the same day the Southern neo-soul sensation joins Olivia Dean as "special guest" on The Art Of Loving Live tour in North America, playing several nights at Madison Square Garden come August.

Southern neo-soul sensation Baby Rose (aka Jasmine Rose Wilson) loves her new golden life in Los Angeles, California. "It's beautiful here," she enthuses. "I mean, when you chew the meat and spit the bones, you get anything you want – a beach, a mountain, damn desert…

“You can get anything you're looking for here – but that's both sides. I just tend to search for the nature and find the medicinal properties of what California as a state has to offer."

Aside from being a biophile, perhaps most of all Wilson cherishes a restored '70s studio, 64Sound, in Highland Park with vintage recording equipment – "a very hidden gem in LA" that she wavers in identifying. "I don't want people to use it and book it!," the singer/songwriter jokes. "So I'm like, 'I don't know if I should say it.'"

Here, Wilson discovered the groove for the wistful YEARNALISM – her third album the charm. Imagine Baby Rose's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But she also considers YEARNALISM a panacea to AI pop slop.

Wilson is Zooming from an LA apartment, speaking in front of an azure Californian skyline – her demeanour cheerful and digressive. She's busy.

The day YEARNALISM drops, the distinctively husky contralto will join English star Olivia Dean as "special guest" on her North American tour, The Art Of Loving Live, encompassing several evenings at New York's Madison Square Garden come August. "I'm gonna be touring the whole summer on the biggest stages I've ever performed on."

The two have already bonded as Dean popped by Wilson's own gig at London's Jazz Café in 2024. Wilson is ambitious, only artistically – the trappings of fame holding less appeal. "I aim high," she declares.

Wilson's birthplace is Washington DC but, as a tween, she relocated with her mother, a single parent, to Fayetteville, North Carolina – and its Southern traditions shaped "Baby Rose".

"When I moved there from DC, I didn't understand it – it was just like a culture shock and it completely slowed me down. My comfort was the foyer – the piano in the foyer and coming home from school and playing and then painting it red, because I loved Elton John, and just kind of putting myself in this place of, 'I just wanna write really great songs; that's what I wanna do. I love poetry and I love writing music.'"