Momo Boyd, a member of the sibling pop-rock group Infinity Song, is stepping into a solo career with a debut EP and the Miss Michigan tour, while consciously resisting pressure to fit a single musical identity. Her move matters as part of a wider conversation about how Black women in music are often boxed into narrow genre categories, an issue also raised by artists such as Santigold and SZA, whose work has similarly been mislabelled or constrained by industry expectations.

Boyd, 27, describes her solo sound as "folksy, emotional and personal", a marked contrast to Infinity Song's more romantic, guitar-driven style, yet says balancing the two has been "pretty easy". Raised in Michigan before her family moved to the Bronx, she has drawn on childhood experiences of cultural dislocation and a turbulent adolescence as the seventh of nine children to shape songs such as her debut single American Love Song, which has earned her comparisons to Lana Del Rey. Her US tour dates finished in August, with European dates, including a London show in November, to follow.