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The guest star of Flashmag this month is a singer songwriter and actress. Nneka Egbuna Lucia was born on Christmas Eve 1980 in Warri Nigeria from a German mother and a Nigerian father. At the age of 19, she left Africa to Hamburg University, where she studied anthropology; meanwhile her musical career will take prominence. In the early 2000, she will start working with the hip hop beat maker DJ Farhot, a producer living in Hamburg. Very early she will gain public attention in 2004 while performing as an opening act for dancehall reggae star Sean Paul at Hamburg Stadtpark. A few months later she was prompted to release her first record, an extended play titled The Uncomfortable truth produced by the label Yo Mama recording company. On April 2005, she performed on her first tour with Patrice Bart-Williams playing in Germany Austria and Switzerland.
Her first album will follow the same year in the autumn. The opus titled Victim of truth will be critically acclaimed in Europe. The following years she will confirm her talent and engagement about contemporary issues
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releasing solid works as No Longer at Ease in 2008, concrete Jungle in 2010, and soul is heavy in 2012 and of course My Fairy Tales released March 2nd 2015. Nneka in the line that follows tells us more about her career, and her person, while giving her opinion on current issues, in an open interview. You will not be deceived by the fairness of her purpose
Flashmag: Hello Nneka it’s a delight for us and of course our readership to have you today as the guest star of the upcoming issue of Flashmag, thanks for taking some few moment of your busy time to answer our questions. Without further ado we will get in the aim of this talk.
You were born in Nigeria in the city of Warri in the Delta state, Warri city is one of the major hubs of petroleum activities and businesses in the southern Nigeria. It is a commercial capital city of Delta State, how the living in Nigeria for the 19 first year of your life has affected the path you had to take later?
Nneka: of course to be born in Nigeria has defined the type of person I’m today also it has given me more insight on who I’m, as person, as a Nigerian as a woman, and also because of the fact that I was born in an area where there is a lot oil exploitation, and this come at the same time with a lot of problem, because of oil production people are getting more pollution and nothing in return at the end of the day, that kind of unfair situation has given me the feeling to write about, because that is what concerns me a as person and as a child who was raised in that area, it left living memories in my mind.
You arrived in Germany at 19 to study anthropology at Hamburg University despite being a good student why did you choose to set your focus on music?
A Talk with Nneka
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