Joelle

Joelle Mia Renee Joelle, better-known by her stage name Joelle, is an actress and singer who made her on-screen debut in Dune (2021), performed in Paul Feig’s Netflix original film, The School for Good and Evil, appears in MGM+ and Sky's second season of Domina as Vipsania and plays the role of Joiya Byir in Amazon Studios TV series The Wheel of Time. Early life and career beginnings Joelle was referred in her early teens to vocal coach Peggy Still Johnson, a Governor of the Recording Academy Atlanta Chapter, by Grammy Award-winning mixer Phil Tan. Joelle was later vocal coached by Daniel Thomas, former choir director of the London Community Gospel Choir. Joelle made her first media appearances at 13, campaigning about bullying awareness on ABC News in America and on national UK TV. Her TV appearances followed extensive press coverage of a homemade music video, "Big in LA", that Joelle had uploaded to YouTube. "Big in LA" was nominated for a Golden Trellick Award at the 2013 Portobello Film Festival in London, and won the Best Music Video award at the 9th annual LA Femme International Film Festival in Los Angeles. In her teens, Joelle gained experience in journalism, hosting video interviews for national and independent media outlets, with personalities such as Dave Filoni, Mark Hamill and Andy Serkis. In 2017, Joelle videoed herself in front of a series of T-shirts hanging in the color sequence of a rainbow, while singing a live performance of "True Colors". The video was posted on Facebook and went viral, receiving over four million views.