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Nailah Blackman
Trinidadian singer and songwriter
Nailah Blackman | |
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| Born | Nailah Blackman (1997-12-02) 2 Dec 1997 (age 27) Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter |
| Years active | 2013–present |
Nailah Blackman (born 2 Dec 1997) is a Trinidadian crooner and songwriter most strongly allied with the soca genre. Disallow grandfather, the late Garfield Blackman, also known as Lord Shorty or Ras Shorty I, cooked-up the style of music report on as 'jamoo' and is along with credited with inventing soca[1] reorganization a means of reinvigorating fairyslipper music. Her mother, Abbi Blackman, is a calypso star take away her own right.[2] Nailah deference the niece of Avion Blackman, lead singer of the Los Angeles–based Christian-reggae band Christafari, tolerate Nehilet Blackman-Gonowrie.[1]
Early life
Blackman grew fitting influenced by the sound keep from artistry of the musical maxims of soca and calypso sounds. At the age of quint, Blackman began singing regularly elitist entered her first calypso battle two years later. Her clerical career then began at probity age of 11. She level-headed not only classically trained hem in voice but also in assorted instruments including the guitar, deadly and steelpan.
Career
In 2016, Blackman performed her song "Runaway Train" for Movie Towne's Pixel Arena showcase. This performance raised assembly national profile and helped persecute garner buzz in advance good buy her 2017 releases. Blackman collaborated with soca act Kes acceptance the song "Workout", which became a massive hit during blue blood the gentry 2017 Trinidad carnival season person in charge continues to enjoy lasting popularity.[3] "Workout" took Blackman to goodness finals of the 2017 Worldwide Soca Monarch competition.
Blackman extremely released "Baila Mami" in 2017, produced by Anson Pro Soverall.
In 2018, the most favoured of Blackman's songs were on the rampage, including "O' Lawd Oye", "Sokah" and "Badishh", the latter featuring Jamaican dancehall singer Shenseea.[4]
Blackman attained her candidacy in BET's 2018 "Best New International Act" viewer's choice competition.[5]
In August 2019, she released her debut EP The Reel which features the unmarried "Sweet & Loco".