Yah Supreme (Yahya Jeffries-El) is an entertainer most known as a recording artist, DJ and Master of Ceremonies. He is a self-produced vocalist with a 22-year string of independently-released material and guest appearances. His music defies easy categorization but lives at the crossroads of hip-hop, jazz and electronica. Yah is a bandleader who performs regularly in Europe at music festivals and featured engagements.

Yah was born at Harlem Hospital and grew up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. He graduated from Manhattan’s Hunter College High School, then received a bachelor’s in performing arts at Washington University in St. Louis as a Harold A. Ramis Scholar.  From the late 1990s to the early aughts, Yah Supreme released a number of 12-inch singles on vinyl, an EP and a compilation album on compact disc through the labels Son Doo Recordings (Brooklyn) and Underground Academy (Paris). Yah (lead vocals/production) and Tommaso Cappellato (drums/production) formed the “atmospheric hip-hop” quintet Brohemian in Brooklyn in 2004 and issued the album “Post Modern Garden“ in 2006.  

After a stint as the co-producer, songwriter and vocalist for the duo Moonset Juice (under the pseudonym “Bruce Gladstones”) Yah Supreme released his sophomore album “Naked City“ on November 11, 2014.  Yah is a writer and featured vocalist on Italian jazz quartet EM4NCIPATION‘s “Blowing Time Away” (January, 2020). Yah’s “I’ll Explain Everything Later”  is currently in production for a 2020 launch.