Date/Time
Date(s) - 31 Oct 2011
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Location
Kesselhaus & Maschinenhaus (Kulturbrauerei)
Price 23.80
Every year since her musical career took off in 2005, this Afro-German warrior princess has built on her successes, stretched her muscles, widened her range.
Her debut album ‘Victim of Truth’ – an inspirational mix of hot loops, black consciousness and 21st-century soul music – was garlanded with praise by the British media. ‘As good as The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,’ said the Sunday Times.
Now, as the UK prepares for the long hot summer of 2009, its soundtrack has arrived: ‘No Longer At Ease’, a second album every bit as lush and visionary as her first.
It’s a record on which brains, beauty and beats collide.
It’s a record that has already made its mark across Europe and beyond.
It’s a record that Lenny Kravitz and Lauryn Hill both heard and said: ‘I want this girl opening my show!’
It’s easy to see what got Lauryn and Lenny so animated. Nneka’s music has still got a big splash of Bob Marley in the recipe, a measure of Nina Simone and a lick of Eryka Badu.
It’s a testament to the strength of Nneka’s talent that her success so far is based on word of mouth, on the quality of her albums and the intensity of her live performance. She is not a big-label product, forced down people’s throats by marketing dollars. Her audience now numbers hundreds of thousands across two continents, for Nneka now divides her time between homes in Lagos and Hamburg. Those listeners are people who have tracked her down, because there will always be a demand for music that does more than just entertain, but touches something universal. As she puts it herself: “I do it in a sweet way – but I sing to speak the truth.”
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