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afropunk premiere: ‘cool’ – the jazz infused new track from nigerian-american soulstress nola adé

September 2, 2015

Today we’re premiering the new single from Chicago based soulstress Nola Adé, ‘Cool’. The soulful jazz infused track is from the Nigerian-American musician’s Debut EP, ‘The Love Dance’. She tells us: “Inspiration, for me, can come from the simplest things. For this song specifically, I was walking on a subway platform in New York, and I heard a horn player playing a variation of the horn part of the song “Cool Like Dat” by Digable Planets. As soon as I heard it, I thought it was pretty dope and I started to freestyle a melody over it, then I developed lyrics from that melody. I wanted to find a way to merge that jazzy style with Soul/R&B and Hip Hop, and the song transformed into something totally different, and I loved it so much! It is, as you hear it today, a song that embodies who I am as an artist, the different levels of who I am.” Listen below.

By Alexander Aplerku, AFROPUNK Contributor

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