The award-winning British Neo-Jazz Singer-Songwriter, Ni Maxine, hailed a ‘Black Woman at The Forefront of the UK Jazz Scene’ (Black Ballad), is sparking intergenerational conversations for change through song, exploring themes of home, identity, self-esteem and belonging.
Ni spun into Tomorrow’s Warriors orbit in late 2021 when she joined the Roots to the Future radio training project with TW and Folded Wing. She went on to take part in the London The Grime Supreme project and then joined the outreach learning team delivering education projects in Liverpool and Cambridge.
Compared, by audience members, to Billie Holiday, Sade and Erykah Badu, her conscious and political lyricism and timeless vocal have taken her to the main stage at Liverpool’s Africa Oyé, Gilles Peterson’s We Out Here and the EFG London Jazz Festival.
With a BBC Introducing live session under her belt, her Manchester Jazz Festival performance broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s J to Z and a live appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, Ni Maxine has carved a path for her ‘afro-centric and soulful’ sound.
Her award-winning debut single Strange Love, supported by tastemakers Jamie Cullum (The Jazz Show), YolanDa Brown, Jamz Supernova and China Moses, and was played across Jazz FM, Radio1, 1Xtra, and Selector Radio cementing Ni Maxine as one to watch.
