“My main message is to make people love, to make them feel themselves, feel their spirits, to be in touch with their innermost self.”
Nneka Egbuna, well known as NNEKA, is a mixed-heritage musician who writes and performs forthright lyrics and song. Some call her soul, hip hop, reggae, afrobeat: I call her amazing. Amazing because she’s prolific -- I’ve been aware of her for over a year and listening to her exclusively for nearly two months and yet I seem to find a new song of hers on a weekly basis. She’s also unapologetic in her bold political statements, those against the human rights issues of the Niger Delta in particular. If you listen closely, she challenges you by challenging herself to be honest and human.
She’s in America with a mission: “I’m trying to Africanize America with my music.” Enjoy.
Kojo Baffoe has written a comprehensive overview of Nneka’s music. I can’t wait for the video interview to go up. Follow him on twitter to stay up.
Here’s MySpace’s video interview of Nneka talking about the upcoming release of her United States release called “Concrete Jungle”.
MySpace Music Presents “Who New” Nneka
MySpace Hip Hop | MySpace Video