Nadah El Shazly Bio
Nadah El Shazly is a producer, vocalist and sound artist from Cairo, Egypt. Her music combines
expressive 19th century musical concepts from her homeland with contemporary, borderless
forays into electronic and improvisational idioms. She has toured the world extensively, featuring
at festivals including Le Guess Who?, REWIRE, Irtijal, and FIMAV, among many others. Her
debut album, Ahwar, landed at #12 on The Wire’s ‘Best Albums of 2017’. Beyond her own
music, El Shazly is an inspired collaborator, working closely with like-minded Egyptian
musicians Maurice Louca and Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush). Recently, she’s been making
brain-scrambling, beat-driven music as Pollution Opera, a newly minted duo with irreverent
Welsh sound artist Elvin Brandhi. El Shazly has also spent time on-screen, starring in the
feature length film About Her (2020) and appearing in the Netflix original series Love, Life &
Everything In Between (2022). Currently, she is wrapping production on a pair of film scores and
preparing to release her sophomore album, due in spring of 2024.