Abby-Lynn Keen

{{Infobox person

|name = Abby-Lynn Keen

|alias = ABsolutely, àB, Abby Keen

|birth_place = Tooting, London, United Kingdom

|relatives = Raye (sister)

| module = {{Infobox musical artist |embed=yes

|genre = {{hlist|R&B|pop|edm}}

|label = {{Hlist |S10|Black Butter|Epic Records|BMG}}

|occupation = {{Hlist | Singer | songwriter | producer}}

}}

Abby-Lynn Keen, also known professionally as ABsolutely and formerly known as àB, is an English musician best known for her writing contributions to Jesy Nelson's "Boyz", Teddy Swims & Giveon's "Are You Even Real", and various Normani, Anitta, and Leigh-Anne projects.{{Cite web|url=https://notion.online/absolutely-for-notion-95/|title=Absolutely for Notion 95|first=Amelia|last=Fearon|date=May 31, 2024|website=Notion}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/a60266712/raye-things-you-didnt-know/|title=10 Things You'll Be Surprised To Learn About Raye|date=March 22, 2024|website=ELLE|access-date=March 29, 2025|archive-date=May 1, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240501135740/https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/a60266712/raye-things-you-didnt-know/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/leigh-anne-pinnock-i-havent-lived-my-destiny-out-yet-32390/|title=Leigh-Anne Pinnock: 'I haven't lived my destiny out yet'|first=Tara|last=Joshi|date=August 31, 2023|website=Rolling Stone UK|access-date=March 29, 2025|archive-date=November 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241104105824/https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/leigh-anne-pinnock-i-havent-lived-my-destiny-out-yet-32390/|url-status=live}} In addition to her work behind the scenes for other artists, Keen is also a solo artist blending R&B, pop, and EDM.{{Cite web|url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/leigh-anne-pinnock-collaborated-raye-090000289.html|title=Leigh-Anne Pinnock has collaborated with Raye's sister Abby Keen on solo album|date=July 1, 2023|website=Yahoo News}} Her debut album CEREBRUM was released on November 17, 2023, and she is currenty signed to S10 Entertainment and Epic Records.{{Cite web|url=https://www.s10e.com/publishing/absolutely|title=Absolutely|website=S10}}

Career

= Early life =

Hailing from Tooting in South London, Keen was born to a Swiss-Ghanaian mother and a British father: musician/producer Paul Keen. Keen was born into a musical family: Her older sister, Rachel, has charted internationally under the pop alias RAYE, and another sister Lauren Keen is also a musician.{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/who-is-raye-brit-awards-seven-nominations-b1134576.html|title=How Raye overcame industry misogyny to become Britain's brightest star|first=El|last=Hunt|date=March 4, 2024|website=The Standard}} Keen first went viral in her early teens with a series of lifestyle videos on social media, around the time she was singing and writing for the Keen family kids' country-pop group the Runaway Hamsters.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iheart.com/artist/absolutely-31167053/|title=Absolutely|website=iHeart}} After several initial songwriting successes, Keen moved to Los Angeles.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nylon.com/entertainment/absolutely-mia-song-raye-tour|title=Meet Absolutely, LA's New Pop Savant — And RAYE's Little Sister|date=February 20, 2024|website=Nylon|access-date=March 29, 2025|archive-date=September 20, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240920110742/https://www.nylon.com/entertainment/absolutely-mia-song-raye-tour|url-status=live}}

="Month" EPs, songwriting, and CEREBRUM=

In 2019, Keen independently-released a series of EPs under the alias àB. In 2023, after receiving her first songwriting hits for Nelson and Normani, Keen decided to rebrand to name ABsolutely coupled with the release of debut single "Higher".{{Cite web|url=https://www.flaunt.com/post/absolutely-the-debut-of-higher|title=ABsolutely; The Debut of 'Higher'|website=Flaunt|access-date=April 3, 2025|archive-date=January 26, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250126195313/https://www.flaunt.com/post/absolutely-the-debut-of-higher|url-status=live}} She also subsequently released debut major-label album CEREBRUM, executive produced by Dave Hamelin, to acclaim in 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://flmag.co.uk/article/absolutely-interview-music-is-my-first-language-really/|title=Absolutely interview: 'Music is my first language, really'|website=Frontline}} Standout single "MIA" was described by writer Steffanee Wang of art-fashion publication Nylon as "geniunely great", noting "a dash of rockish guitar, a bit of woozy soul, and a dose wobbly, discordant synths. There’s a strong melodic backbone that she adorns with her own quirks, scuzzying it up with contrasting textures while her silky voice flies free." Keen also supported her sister on the Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow dates of her My 21st Century Blues Tour.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tmrwmagazine.com/en/news/on-tour-with-absolutely|title=On Tour with : Absolutely|website=www.tmrwmagazine.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.euphoriazine.com/blog/2024/02/music-absolutely-my-21st-century-blues-tour-diary/|title=Absolutely My 21st Century Blues Tour Diary|first=Fabio|last=Magnocavallo|date=February 28, 2024|website=Euphoria}}

Discography

=Studio albums=

CEREBRUM (2023)

=Extended plays=

September (2019)
October (2019)
November (2019)
December (2019)
First Place (Tancrede Sessions) (2020)

=Guest appearances=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" ! scope="col" style="width:31em;"\| Title ! scope="col"\| Year ! scope="col"\| Artist ! scope="col"\| Album
scope="row"\|"Love Me Again" (Background Vocals) \|2019 \|Raye \|Euphoric Sad Songs
scope="row"\|"333" \|rowspan="2"\|2021 \|Tinashe \|333
scope="row"\|"Get Together" \|David Guetta \|{{Non-album single}}
scope="row"\|"Stay With Me" \|2023 \|Louis the Child \|The Sun Comes Up
scope="row"\|"Waterslides" (With Rudimental) \|rowspan="5"\|2024 \|Tiësto \|TBA
scope="row"\|"See Through (Remix)" (Featuring Coco Jones & Samara Cyn) \|Amelia Moore \|TBA
scope="row"\|"Real Love" (With Isaiah Roberts) \|One House \|Eyes Up
scope="row"\|"Shades" \|Snakehips \|{{Non-album single}}
scope="row"\|"New Woman" (With Rosalía) (Background Vocals) \|Lisa \|Alter Ego
scope="row"\|"Twenties" (Background Vocals) \|2025 \|Giveon \|TBA

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"

! scope="col" style="width:31em;"| Title

! scope="col"| Year

! scope="col"| Artist

! scope="col"| Album

scope="row"|"Love Me Again" (Background Vocals)

|2019

|Raye

|Euphoric Sad Songs

scope="row"|"333"

|rowspan="2"|2021

|Tinashe

|333

scope="row"|"Get Together"

|David Guetta

|{{Non-album single}}

scope="row"|"Stay With Me"

|2023

|Louis the Child

|The Sun Comes Up

scope="row"|"Waterslides" (With Rudimental)

|rowspan="5"|2024

|Tiësto

|TBA

scope="row"|"See Through (Remix)" (Featuring Coco Jones & Samara Cyn)

|Amelia Moore

|TBA

scope="row"|"Real Love" (With Isaiah Roberts)

|One House

|Eyes Up

scope="row"|"Shades"

|Snakehips

|{{Non-album single}}

scope="row"|"New Woman" (With Rosalía) (Background Vocals)

|Lisa

|Alter Ego

scope="row"|"Twenties" (Background Vocals)

|2025

|Giveon

|TBA

=Selected songwriting & production credits=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" ! scope="col" style="width:31em;"\| Title ! scope="col"\| Year ! scope="col"\| Artist ! scope="col"\| Album
scope="row"\|"Amor Real (Holiday Song)" \|2020 \|Anitta \|{{Non-album single}}
scope="row"\|"The Chase" \|rowspan="6"\|2021 \|rowspan="2"\|Tinashe \|rowspan="2"\|333
scope="row"\|"Naturally"
scope="row"\|"Little Bit of Fun" (Featuring Anne-Marie) \|KSI \|All Over the Place (Deluxe Edition)
scope="row"\|"Suéltate" (Featuring Anitta, Bia and Jarina De Marco) \|Sam i \|Sing 2 (soundtrack)
scope="row"\|"Roadside" (Featuring AJ Tracey) \|Mahalia \| rowspan="3" {{N/A\|Non-album singles}}
scope="row"\|"Boyz" (Featuring Nicki Minaj) \|Jesy Nelson
scope="row"\|"Fair" \|rowspan="5"\|2022 \|Normani
scope="row"\|"Gata" (featuring Chencho Corleone) \|rowspan="4"\|Anitta \|rowspan="4"\|Versions of Me
scope="row"\|"Gimme Your Number" (featuring Ty Dolla Sign)
scope="row"\|"Maria Elegante" (featuring Afro B)
scope="row"\|"Faking Love" (featuring Saweetie)
scope="row"\|"Melt Away" \|rowspan="5"\|2023 \|Taeyeon \|To. X
scope="row"\|"On + On" (Featuring Justine Skye) \|Austin Millz \|Breathwork
scope="row"\|"Magic" \|Kiana Ledé \|Grudges
scope="row"\|"In My Bag" \|rowspan="2"\|Mahalia \|rowspan="2"\|IRL
scope="row"\|"Bag Of You"
scope="row"\|"OMG" \|rowspan="5"\|2024 \|rowspan="2"\|Leigh-Anne \|rowspan="2"\|No Hard Feelings (EP)
scope="row"\|"I'll Still Be Here"
scope="row"\|"All Yours" \|Normani \|Dopamine
scope="row"\|"Feeling Lucky" (With Jackson Wang) \|Bibi \| rowspan="2" {{N/A\|Non-album singles}}
scope="row"\|"Pieces" \|Carlina de Place
scope="row"\|"Thunder" \|rowspan="4"\|2025 \|rowspan="2"\|Lisa \|rowspan="2"\|Alter Ego
scope="row"\|"Lifestyle"
scope="row"\|"Are You Even Real" (featuring Giveon) \| Teddy Swims \| I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2)
scope="row"\|"All Of Me" \| Nao \| Jupiter

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"

! scope="col" style="width:31em;"| Title

! scope="col"| Year

! scope="col"| Artist

! scope="col"| Album

scope="row"|"Amor Real (Holiday Song)"

|2020

|Anitta

|{{Non-album single}}

scope="row"|"The Chase"

|rowspan="6"|2021

|rowspan="2"|Tinashe