Nadia Washington is a singer songwriter hailing from Dallas, Texas who has shared the stage with esteemed artist such as Esperanza Spalding, Lalah Hathaway and George Duke. She recently received a Grammy for her work as a singer, writer and arranger for Dianne Reeves’ Beautiful Life Album in 2015. Her musical roots are heavily steeped in Jazz, R&B and gospel. Nadia was fortunate to attend the prestigious Booker T. Washington High School of the Performing & Visual Arts and was awarded the presidential scholarship at Berklee College of Music.

While she is creating her debut album as a solo artist, she awaits the release of the Blue Note compilation CD, Supreme Sonacy on which she is writer and performer alongside Ray Angry of the Roots and Kendra Foster of Parliament­Funkadelic and D’Angelo’s Black Messiah. Nadia’s sound is a blend of Jazz, Soul, R&B and World Music. Follow her as she embarks on a very promising and long­lasting career.

ScienZe is a born and bred emceel from Brooklyn, NY.  He began his artful journey at 9 years old with his brother and a Casio Keyboard, and hasn’t stopped since.  Upon making musicianship his career 7 years ago, he’s been on a European Tour in 2013, featured on notable publications like OKAYPLAYER & 2DOPEBOYZ, and earlier this year released his 3rd solo album “Good Food” which premiered through MASS APPEAL.

Alsarah is a Sudanese born singer, songwriter and ethnomusicologist. Born in the capital city of Khartoum, where she spent the first 8 years of her life, she relocated to Taez, Yemen with her family to escape the ever-stifling regime in her native country. She abruptly moved to the US in 1994, when a brief civil war broke out in Yemen. Alsarah started her musical training at the age of 12. After attending the pioneer valley performing arts charter high school, in hadley, MA, she spent 4 years at Wesleyan University studying music with a concentration in ethnomusicology residing in Brooklyn, NY, she is a self-proclaimed practitioner of East-African retro pop. Working on various projects, she most recently has been working with the Nile project and was featured on their debut release, Aswan (named 1 of the top 5 must hear international albums of 2013 by npr). She has also collaborated with French producer Débruit on the album Aljwal, released this past November via Soundway records. She toured the release in July 2014. She released her debut album with her band Alsarah & the Nubatones in the spring of 2014. Alsarah & the Nubatones were born out of many dinner conversations between Alsarah and Rami El Aasser about Nubian ‘songs of return’, modern migration patterns and the cultural exchanges between Sudan and Egypt. A common love for the richness of pentatonic sounds, and shared migration experiences, expanded the conversation to include Armenian ­ American oud player Haig Manouki­ and a French born Togo raised bass player Mawuena Kodjovi. Under the leadership of Alsarah, the Brooklyn based group’s sound grew into what they have dubbed as ‘east ­ African retro­pop’. In March of 2014 the group released their debut album “silt“ via Wonderwheel recordings to international acclaim and great reviews, with the single soukura (it’s late) debuting on spin magazine’s blog. October of the same year saw the release of “silt remixed” featuring remixes by bodhisattva, nickodemus, captain planet, chancha via circuito, and many others. It also went on to be selected by the prestigious fact magazine as one of the best remix albums of 2014.

Unfortunately that year also marked the passing of founding member Hiag Manoukian from this world into the next. Taking his place is the brilliant oudist, and former student of Hiag, Brandon Terzic. In addition we have also grown to include the charismatic and talented vocalist Nahid as a full time member of the band now. Since their first show in October of 2011, the group has performed nationally and internationally at many prestigious festivals and venues. With audiences varying in age and ethnicity, the Nubatones has proven over and over that soul crosses all cultural and linguistic barriers.