Nadeah

On stage, Nadéah seems to live out her motto: “Whatever happens, make something good of it”. She has long used music and performance as a form of alternative medicine. After discovering Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin in her mother’s record collection and falling in love with rock music, she was then taken to a live show of Michelle Shocked. It was there that she decided, "That's what I want to do when I grow up". The American folk singer with punk spirit showed her the way. As a teenager, Nadéah taught herself to use a guitar and her vocal cords to create beauty and work off pain. Like Leonard Cohen and Tori Amos – two great sources of inspiration, the first for his ability to paint pictures with words and the other for exorcising afflictions – Nadéah turns her often adverse past experiences into something beautiful and engaging, songs that transcend difficult events to give solace, create humour and to touch beauty but always with a lyrical twist. Nadéah’s songs, though born of true experiences, are steeped in fantastical imagery and tell the stories of the Australian who, born to immigrant parents (her mother is Indian, Portuguese, English and Serbian, her father Italian), was never able to stand still.