![]() ![]() Once you find your peace with not knowing the truth, you find confidence.” I can’t keep searching for answers, because there are no answers. I realized this is just what I do, it never ends. I’m asking how long I have to climb this ladder of the music industry. This is about facing time as an enemy and my own death. “The last album was about a relationship that ended. “If I Should Die sounds pretty brutal, but it became my reality,” she elaborates. I had to challenge my introverted self to ask new musicians and creatives to help me with this journey.”įollowing the post-breakup anesthetization of La Bella Vita, she looked inward without fear and tackled the sort of existential questions typically reserved for French new wave films and essays about Taxi Driver. For this EP, I was like, ‘Let me see if I can finish this by myself without relying on the people I usually do.’ It was time to jump. It taught me a lesson I can be proud of what I’m doing. All of my fingerprints are on everything. “In the past, I gave control to people who I probably shouldn’t have. “Recently, I found my footing,” she says. Pursuing her creative intuition with newfound freedom, she took the reins for the first time and executive produced every track on If I Should Die and directed videos to accompany each of them. For such an introspective, yet inflammatory soul, a little quiet does wonders for creativity-even in the middle of a Pandemic. The Cut praised the latter as “a heartbreak-infused collection full of modern, soulful iterations of the torch song,” and Paper raved, ”Niia strikes a balance between being vulnerable and vindictive, not afraid of letting the flame burn hot and bright for all to see.” Along the way, she dueted with Jazmine Sullivan, Gallant, and Boogie and performed alongside Jorja Smith, the xx, and Charlotte Cardin. She delivered two critically adored albums I and II: La Bella Vita . Looking back, she describes it as, “a dreamlike state to hear Chopin being played-not always so great.” Classical piano training enabled her to understand music at its core as she also fell in love with the likes of Mariah Carey, Nina Simone, and Debussy and watched a shit ton of Sopranos.įollowing a short spell in New York where she promptly dropped out of New School, she landed in Los Angeles during 2015. As the story goes, the little Italian-American girl from Boston sat under the piano and colored while mom (first-generation Italian) gave classical lessons. She always projected the sturm und drang of her life through music. This journey of freaking out is actually a very personal experience.” The songs are rooted in life, but they’re riddled with clues. ![]() “The music transfers an inner body experience to an outer body experience. “Over the past year, I felt like I was rising out of my body and dissociating, looking down on my life, assessing everything, having an identity crisis, and trying to figure what I can do to help myself and my fans,” she admits. It’s also separated her as a ghostly pop outlier pondered over by The New York Times, Pitchfork, Paper, The Guardian, Interview, Wonderland, and Harper’s Bazaar and sought after by brands such as La Mer, Chanel Beauté, Remy Martin, Reebok, Calvin Klein and more.Īfter multiple projects, numerous collaborations, and 20 million streams, she steps outside of herself on the 2021 If I Should Die. If you’re looking for drama, it’s there in her self-produced music, self-directed videos, evocative lyrics, and smoky vocals. Rather, she’s sequestered in her own kingdom of doubt, anxiety, lust, karma, and sense of self. She’s completely tapped in, yet wholly removed from this world. At the same time, she’s not just on screen…No, she’s also behind-the-camera, pulling the strings, and playing god with the emotions of any voyeur curious enough to listen, watch, and feel. This website is managed on a digital platform of the National Football League.Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, director, and muse Niia appears and disappears with all of the silent pomp and circumstance of a ghostly succubus or a nightclub chanteuse in some Lynchian fever dream on a spaceship.
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