NIIA (die Neo-Sade)

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https://www.niiamusic.com
http://niiarocco.tumblr.com

https://www.instagram.com/niiarocco
https://twitter.com/niia

https://www.youtube.com/user/niia3
https://soundcloud.com/niia
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NIIA is Niia Bertino, an American singer, songwriter and pianist with a background in jazz, pop, hip-hop and classical music. The granddaughter of an opera singer with several other musicians in the family, she was born and raised in Massachusetts and learned classical piano from her mother. She started singing at the age of 13 and a year later accepted an invitation to enroll in a summer program at the Berklee College of Music. After graduating from high school, Bertino moved to New York City, where she briefly studied jazz vocals at the New School.

Pattern of Excel While in New York, the singer met Wyclef Jean, leading to a featured spot on his 2007 single "Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)" alongside Lil Wayne and Akon. She was credited as simply Niia. The song reached the Top 15 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. and Canada and resulted in performances on Late Show with David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel Live! among other national TV appearances. She began to upload a series of performances and covers, including one of Cher's "Bang Bang" and in 2011 she performed highlights from James Bond soundtracks in concert with a small orchestra. NIIA released the stand-alone single "Made for You," a noir-ish ballad with piano, strings, and electronic textures, in 2013. Displaying a similarly jazzy, atmospheric pop, the Generation Blue EP was released in October 2014 by the Something Local label. While preparing her full-length debut, she lent vocals to albums by electronic artists such as Lee Bannon (2015's Pattern of Excel) and the Range (2016's Potential). Led by the sultry single "Hurt You First," the jazz- and R&B-inflected I arrived on Atlantic Records in 2017. – https://www.allmusic.com/artist/niia-mn0000936277/biography

Diskografie:

NIIA - Generation Blue (EP) (2014)
NIIA - I (LP) (2017)
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Niias zweites Album mit dem Titel Act II (La Bella Vita), welches wieder nahezu im Alleingang von Schattenmann und Ex-Rhye-Produzent Robin Hannibal (hi!) produziert wurde und sie sowohl zu ihren Jazzwurzeln als auch in ihre italienische Zweitheimat zurückführte, erhält gerade den letzten Feinschliff und soll noch in der ersten Hälfte des nächsten Jahres erscheinen. Entstanden ist ein Großteil des Werkes nämlich in den wunderschönen SAM Recording Studios in Lari (Provinz Pisa) – nur wenige Kilometer vom Wohnsitz des Bruders des Lebensgefährten meiner Mutter entfernt. Vermehrt geschliffen (und gewetzt) werden bei ihr zukünftig allerdings auch die Messer. Die ersten Folgen ihrer musikbegleiteten Kochshow, Niia Cooks, sind bereits im Kasten.

Evviva capocuoco Bertino!:emoji_wine_glass:



 
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Although she’s still touring her first album, she’s already gearing up for her second one. For her next project, she hopes to bring even more meaningful lyrics. “Writing is confessional,” she says, “It’s almost conversational, opposed to as metaphoric and poetic as it used to be. Lyrics are shifting... but I still try to write poetic vibes.”

This time she wants to go darker, and take more risks with production and vocals. She explains, “I really want to do some things that I feel more confident and ready to do. The things that people like the most were the things I was most afraid to do, like belt – which is to sing really big.” Hinting that she might collaborate with Jazmine Sullivan again on her next project, she concludes, “I live in 2018, I want to make something that reminds you of the past, that still feels present, that’s still timeless.”
 
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