Press Release:
NIGERIAN-AMERICAN SONGSTRESS NOLA ADÉ TEAMS UP WITH LARRY BROWN JR ON JAZZY NEW TRACK, “MY LOVE, MY LIFE, MY EVERYTHING”
SOULTRACKS PREMIERE: NIGERIAN-AMERICAN SONGSTRESS NOLA ADÉ TEAMS UP WITH LARRY BROWN JR ON JAZZY NEW TRACK,
“MY LOVE, MY LIFE, MY EVERYTHING”
Live Television Debut on ABC Chicago’s Windy City Live
“Everybody needs a little soul in their music rotation and Nola Adé has it” – Karen Civil
“Soaring vocals” – Vocalo
Listen to “My Love, My Life, My Everything” on Soultracks now:
http://www.ow.ly/SP8pb
September 30, 2015, NEW YORK, NY – Chicago’s Nigerian-American soulstress Nola Adé recently teamed up with her musical director, jazz arranger/composer Larry Brown Jr. for a dazzling new duet, “My Love, My Life, My Everything”. While the track not be upcoming debut EP, THE LOVE DANCE (slated for independent release this winter), the stand-alone single showcases a rich, sophisticated side of Nola’s repertoire:https://soundcloud.com/nolaade/my-love-my-life-my-everything-larry-brown-ft-nola-ade
“[The song] is meant to paint a picture of love as it relates to the beauty of the elements of nature,” Nola explains. “It’s a favorite of mine because of the imagery it creates in the lyrics and the story told by LBJ in the music composition. And it is another piece to my compounded definition of what love is.”
This morning, Nola made her live television debut on ABC Chicago’s “Windy City Live”. Watch her soulful performance of her buzz single “Cool”, which premiered online with Afropunk earlier this month: http://www.windycitylive.com/episodes/Nola-Ade-performs-on-Windy-City-Live/9548788
This past weekend, Nola serenaded Chicagoians at the city’s African Fashion Week as well as the United African Organization Unity Gala. At the top of September, she performed on the main stage for Chicago’s annual African Festival of the Arts.
This fall, fans can expect to see visuals for “Cool” as well as a beautifully reworked version of her debut single “Love”. Stay tuned for more updates about THE LOVE DANCE EP.
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ABOUT NOLA ADÉ
The trendy thing in R&B/Soul is to be emo, with slickly overproduced songs heavy with dark, coarse, moody, and often, quite frankly, depressing lyrics over synthetic sounds. We’re informed that somehow this malnourishment is “keeping it real.” In truth, sometimes what’s keeping it the realest is a ray of un-ironic optimism, an unfaltering faith in love, a little bit of sun in an uninspiring day, the music of singer-songwriter Nola Adé. Adé is the antidote, the anti-drug to the melancholic bit of missed Prozac doses that now passes for depth. In the face of such self-congratulatory darkness, Adé dares to embrace her light. So, have Windy City audiences who’ve taken on her positivity challenge and encountered the shine of a full-bodied vocalist whose phrasing is Ella Fitzgerald, soulful timbre is Jazmine Sullivan, and eclectic style is all her own. This too is what Adé’s music and message to her eager fans is really all about: honoring the traditions of the past, being unafraid of the present, and unapologetically being oneself for a brighter future. No hipster posturing here, just the real. (L. Michael Gipson)
