Mesmerizing NY Singer-Songwriter Nali is R&B’s Best Kept Secret, Announces 8/20 ‘I Love Nali’ Debut
22-year-old singer Nali puts her heart and soul into every song, channeling each artistic impulse with the lived-in authenticity of a born-and-bred Brooklyn girl. Since she started releasing music in 2020, the multi-talented artist has been the R&B industry’s best-kept secret, captivating in-the-know crowds with her mesmerizing live performances and winning over tastemakers with songs like “4U.” Now signed to Courtesy Of Records, the new label formed by industry vets Solomon Sounds, Daniel “Birdman Zoe” Desir, Saint Harraway, and Ryan Ruden, Nali is ready for her turn in the limelight, announcing I Love Nali, her debut mixtape, coming August 20th.
Following up her 3-song No Spaces EP, and channeling the spirit of her “No Spaces Live” stoop performance (over 125k YouTube views), 1 Love Nali blends R&B, hip-hop percussion, with heavy notes of jazz, each track showing off her natural musicality and soul-baring lyrics. The mixtape fuses those styles into a sound of Nali’s own, resembling a series of journal entries that reflect her moods and experiences. I Love Nali gives a home to the harmonious love song “4U,” with over 900k streams on Spotify, and the guitar-driven recent single “Crossfaded,” along with six other standout songs that show what the young artist can do.
I Love Nali continues a journey that started when the artist of Puerto Rican and Jamaican descent was a child, born to a musical family in Brooklyn. She fell in love with the piano as a child, but didn’t seriously consider pursuing music until the world stopped during the pandemic. With nothing to stop her from following her dream, she dove into recording, developing a raw and deeply personal sound with an authenticity that doesn’t sacrifice chops or complexity. At the age of 19, Nali released “POV,” which made an organic impact on SoundCloud and social media before she had even made a music-focused account. In late 2023, Nali got a boost when the popular music discovery account @IBreatheMusicAllDay discovered a snippet of “4U,” sharing it to his 340k followers and quickly going viral. In early 2024, Nali released the finished version of the song, which became her official debut single, garnering notice from FashionablyEarly and Spotify Fresh Finds, earning a spot on Spotify’s 2024 Fresh Finds R&B of the Year playlist. Nali followed “4U” with her first mini-EP, No Spaces, which she performed live during one of her signature “Stoop Sessions.”
I Love Nali tracklist:
- Callmeatthewrongtime
- Good Day
- Jazz
- All Day
- Crossfaded
- Wait For You
- 4U
- Journal Entry
- Procrastinating (Outro)
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