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NNEKA 'LIVE' IN CONCERT WITH GUESTS

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AT THE BILTMORE CABARET (2755 Prince Edward Street)

**GENERAL ADMISSION / 19+**

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NNEKA: Were she not a musician, Nneka might have made an excellent investigative journalist. Or perhaps she'd have been a philosopher. In truth, an element of both those disciplines informs her art. Because throughout her third album Soul Is Heavy, Nneka constantly asks questions. She interrogates friends, lovers, her Nigerian countrymen, politicians, God, the universe... and, most importantly, she questions herself.

"It wouldn't make any sense if I only pointed fingers," she admits. Her music and attitude are probing, even confrontational, yet never didactic. "It's important that you recognize yourself as part of the system, too, and that the only way we can make things work is by realizing we are part of the same entity."

Born and raised in Warri, in the Delta region of Nigeria, Nneka Egbuna watched as the city and its citizens wrestled with the impact of new-found affluence. Three decades later, electrical blackouts are still a part of daily life in Nigeria, an oil-rich nation plagued by petrol shortages, where tribalism and disparity of wealth and political power further entrench divisions of class. "All that has a lot to do with why I am the way I am, despite the fact that I have now been able to travel a great deal, and see the world from a different angle."

At the age of 19, Nneka left Africa to Hamburg University, where she studied anthropology even as her musical career was building steam. With its marriage of timeless grooves, contemporary technology, and 21st century black consciousness, her 2005 debut Victim Of Truth was lauded by the British press. "As good as The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill," trumpeted The Sunday Times. Its 2008 follow-up, No Longer At Ease, impressed rock star Lenny Kravitz so profoundly that he immediately tapped her to accompany him on tour. In 2010, selections from both albums -- including the international hit "Heartbeat" -- were compiled for her US debut, “Concrete Jungle”, which showed North America what the rest of the world already knew: Nneka is a unique, formidable talent to be reckoned with.

Written and recorded throughout the three year period following the release of No Longer At Ease, the fifteen selections on Soul Is Heavy were culled from a backlog of roughly fifty songs, many of which Nneka composed while back in Nigeria (even as the power went on and off in her Lagos apartment). They integrate myriad musical styles: reggae, hip-hop, modern R&B and vintage soul, Afrobeat, and even elements of flamenco and Sahara desert blues. They range from the driving opener, "Lucifer (No Doubt)," to the sweet and peaceful "Shining Star," and from the furious "Camouflage" to

desolate, introspective cuts such as "Valley." All are unmistakably Nneka.

Nneka's songs may begin with personal experiences and homegrown sentiments, but global appeal imbues her music and its messages. She transcends boundaries, both geographic and aesthetic. Regardless of the listener's mother tongue, there is an immediacy to Nneka's singing -- be it pointed ("Don't Even Think") or poignant ("Stay," "Do You Love Me Now") -- that anyone can appreciate. Nneka is indivisible from the world she inhabits, and her art reflects that on every level. "I am what you hear," she concludes, succinctly. "I wouldn't be able to separate my music from me."



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