Nneka

Nneka

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Nneka, full name Nneka Egbuna, is a hip hop and soul singer-songwriter, actress, activist and painter.

Born in Warri, a southeast Nigerian port city, Nneka had a very hard time during her youth. After her biological German mother left her when she was just two years old, it all got worse with an abusive stepmother taking over the mother role. Warri, a town full with ‘many different tribes and different types of music’, quickly inspired her to become a musician. When she fled in 1999 from Nigeria to the German town Hamburg to study anthropology, her dream started to become true. Nneka told Deutsche

Farhot brought hip hop into my life, and I, being African, introduced the African side to him. He is from Afghanistan and then us two in Germany, it was just an amazing mix.