Nabihah Iqbal, Musician / Producer / DJ / Broadcaster
💭 Thoughts on 90s Italian RnB, Miista, and touring the east coast.
Nabihah Iqbal is a musician, producer, DJ and broadcaster from London. She released her latest album DREAMER in April 2023 on Ninja Tune. Five years on since the London-born artist’s debut Weighing Of The Heart was released, DREAMER is Nabihah’s rawest and most reflective work to date.
In addition to being a musician, Nabihah has also hosted radio shows on NTS and BBC networks like Radio 1, 1Xtra, Asian Network, World Service and 6Music since 2013. Since her debut album was released on Ninja Tune in 2017, Nabihah has toured the world extensively as both a live act and DJ. Performance highlights include the V&A Museum, MoMA PS1 and SXSW as well as Glastonbury Festival, Warehouse Project, Printworks, Boiler Room, Worldwide Festival and Sonar.
Nabihah plays the east coast this week – including Washington DC tonight 9/24, NYC tomorrow 9/25, Kingston NY on Thursday 9/26, and more.
🎯 Current focus
So much touring! Coming to the end of touring my album DREAMER - it’s been 17 months straight of shows and now I’ve got 3 more to go before I take a break to try and write some new music. Touring makes me excited because performing live is the best part about being a musician. I have a lot of fun with my band and I love meeting fans at shows and hearing about their relationship to my music.
📚 Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior
Basketball is my new obsession. I’m currently reading the autobiography of Phil Jackson who coached the Chicago Bulls, Lakers and Knicks and it’s a great book! I’m just trying to learn as much as I can about the sport and I’ve also started trying to play it too and I love it.
🕉️ Mantra of the moment
Being grateful. Trying to stay healthy and energized enough to make it through the last few months of touring. Trying to organize my thoughts and plans cause I got so much to do!
🎶 L’Ascensore by Ambra Anglioni
It’s a song with 90s rnb vibes from Italy… just discovered this song on a recent holiday to Italy whilst watching late night tv in the hotel and it really got inside my head and so now I’m just listening to it on repeat.
🎤 Touring on the east coast
I’m really looking forward to starting my East Coast tour at the end of this week. It’s always so fun playing shows in North America, and I’m heading to some new places I’ve never been to before like Philly [for Making Time Fest] and upstate New York so I can’t wait to experience those areas and hopefully get some time to explore.
👢 Miista
They gifted me clothing and shoes to wear during some of my performances this summer and now the shoes are my current favourites and I just love the feel of it all.
🤳 A perfectly curated stream of content
My favourite way to consume content these days really is just looking at links, videos, screenshots, photos that my friends send me. They know me so they know what I like and so it ends up being the perfectly curated stream of content to me!
Nicholas Daley is my husband’s brand so obviously always paying attention to it and also feeling very proud of all the things he’s created and achieved so far. :)
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