Beate Baumgartner

Beate Baumgartner (born 9 May 1983), also known as "Yola B", is an Austrian-Namibian singer.

She was born in Windhoek, South-West Africa (now Namibia), and gained her initial fame by participating in the talent show Starmania in 2002–3. She subsequently joined Parov Stelar's electro-swing band, which formed in 2005. From 2008 to 2009 she sang with another electro-rock Band, Monilla, and is featured on their 2008 album, Hello World – Chapter 1. In 2015 she joined Romany band DelaDap.

The daughter of an Austrian father and a Namibian mother, she attended the German Higher Private School Windhoek, where she began acting and singing. Her mother is the actress Mara Baumgartner, who starred in the prize-winning 2015 film Katutura.

After relocating to Graz, Austria, as a teenager, she worked for Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature, and passed up on the opportunity to attend university in order to further her singing career.

Discography Albums 2008: Hello World – Chapter 1 (with Monilla)

Collaborations 2009: Coco (Parov Stelar Band), on the track "Dandy" 2009: Midnight Rendezvous (Mike Rigler EP), on the track "Heroes (feat. Yola B)" 2014: Listen up (DelaDap)

Singles 2003: Shosholoza 2008: Monilla: 2nd Life 2014: "Skyrocket" (with DelaDap)