Iraina Mancini

Mancini is also a DJ, and typically plays Northern soul, early rhythm and blues, ska, funk, Garage Rock and Latin boogaloo.

She ran a popular monthly night called "Soul Box" in East London with Eddie Piller and fashion photographer Dean Chalkley.

[6][7] On 19 June 2020, Mancini provided vocals for "The War", a single from electronic musicians BT and Matt Fax, which appears in the album The Lost Art of Longing.

All singles playlist and featured heavily on BBC 6 Music and Radio 2 with firm fans in Lauren Laverne, Jo Whiley and Chris Hawkins.

hymned “a playfully radical first album...perfectly amalgamating disco, psych, pop and rock”, while The Times singled out Iraina's “intoxicating way with a melody”, describing her as “a new heroine to make us swoon".