NAJWA MAHIADDIN performs the song "OCEAN" for BalconyTV.
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Najwa Mahiaddin is an award winning vocalist and songwriter hailing from Malaysia, known for her sultry vocals, her soul and R&B stylings and empowering lyrics.
In 2011 the “Soulstress” released her debut R&B/neo-soul album Innocent Soul which won
multiple awards; Best New Artiste and Best English Local Song “Got to Go” at the Anugerah Industri Muzik 2011 awards.
Adamant on pursuing music as a career, Najwa enrolled in the prestigious Berklee College of Music
where she graduated in 2012, majoring in contemporary writing and production. Najwa then moved to New York and returned from a three year hiatus with a darker undertone in her music, experimenting with somber and minimalistic echoes over the usual warm piano accompaniments. Thus the Aurora EP is born; her sounds shamelessly stripped down into a bare electronic setting, her soul’s deepest shadows unveiled.
Switching her playlist from Jill Scott, Erykah Badu and Billie Holiday to the likes of Little Dragon, James Blake and Emily King, whilst also braving the isolated icy paths of New York City may have had a little something to do with it. Aurora seeks to reaffirm her Malaysian roots by blending traditional elements from her Malay and Indian influenced heritage with a more current soundtrack. Najwa’s first single off Aurora, “Seri Mersing” boldly weaves the ancestral ghazal folk song into a contemporary orchestration, intimating a sacrilegious cultural intercross of the old and the new.
‘Music is an extension of one’s soul’, Najwa believes that through art, the audience is able to experience a visible and audible expression of the artists’ emotion. From her award-winning debut R&B/neo-soul album ‘Innocent Soul’, to her dark and moody sophomore EP, ‘Aurora’, Najwa’s music seeks to reaffirm her Malaysian roots but also pay homage to the roller-coaster experiences she has had living alone in America.
Najwa Mahiaddin is set to release her third album in 2016.
http://FACEBOOK.COM/NAJWAMUSIC
CREDITS/SPONSORS
The Bursa Bull Charge 2014
Bagasta Boutique Guesthouse www.bagasta.com.my
PRESENTER: Vini Balan
PRODUCER: Maryam Samirah Shamsuddin
DIRECTOR/VIDEOGRAPHY: Fadza Ishak
SOUND ENGINEER: Bijan Fx
VIDEO EDITING: Faris Ideris
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Najwa Mahiaddin is an award winning vocalist and songwriter hailing from Malaysia, known for her sultry vocals, her soul and R&B stylings and empowering lyrics.
In 2011 the “Soulstress” released her debut R&B/neo-soul album Innocent Soul which won
multiple awards; Best New Artiste and Best English Local Song “Got to Go” at the Anugerah Industri Muzik 2011 awards.
Adamant on pursuing music as a career, Najwa enrolled in the prestigious Berklee College of Music
where she graduated in 2012, majoring in contemporary writing and production. Najwa then moved to New York and returned from a three year hiatus with a darker undertone in her music, experimenting with somber and minimalistic echoes over the usual warm piano accompaniments. Thus the Aurora EP is born; her sounds shamelessly stripped down into a bare electronic setting, her soul’s deepest shadows unveiled.
Switching her playlist from Jill Scott, Erykah Badu and Billie Holiday to the likes of Little Dragon, James Blake and Emily King, whilst also braving the isolated icy paths of New York City may have had a little something to do with it. Aurora seeks to reaffirm her Malaysian roots by blending traditional elements from her Malay and Indian influenced heritage with a more current soundtrack. Najwa’s first single off Aurora, “Seri Mersing” boldly weaves the ancestral ghazal folk song into a contemporary orchestration, intimating a sacrilegious cultural intercross of the old and the new.
‘Music is an extension of one’s soul’, Najwa believes that through art, the audience is able to experience a visible and audible expression of the artists’ emotion. From her award-winning debut R&B/neo-soul album ‘Innocent Soul’, to her dark and moody sophomore EP, ‘Aurora’, Najwa’s music seeks to reaffirm her Malaysian roots but also pay homage to the roller-coaster experiences she has had living alone in America.
Najwa Mahiaddin is set to release her third album in 2016.
http://FACEBOOK.COM/NAJWAMUSIC
CREDITS/SPONSORS
The Bursa Bull Charge 2014
Bagasta Boutique Guesthouse www.bagasta.com.my
PRESENTER: Vini Balan
PRODUCER: Maryam Samirah Shamsuddin
DIRECTOR/VIDEOGRAPHY: Fadza Ishak
SOUND ENGINEER: Bijan Fx
VIDEO EDITING: Faris Ideris
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