Nabiha Bensouda is a Danish singer-songwriter.
Career
”Deep Sleep", the first single from the album peaked as 4 on the Danish Tracklisten Singles Chart and was certified gold. Bensouda has already played a number of large venues, including opening for
James Morrison at the Falconer Theatre in Copenhagen and playing at the Danish National Football stadium.
Nabiha was a support act for
Rasmus Seebach
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Seebach has written and produced songs for Danish and international artist ...
on a sold-out tour. She also toured with James Morrison concert in Copenhagen,
Jason Derulo
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's and
Jamie Cullum
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's German tours. In February 2011 Nabiha toured all over Denmark with marked success.
September 2011 Nabiha released the new international edit of her debut album now called ''More Cracks'' and included four new songs; "Never Played the Bass", "Sound of My Gun", "Can't Do Anything" and "Trouble" which went into high rotation on Danish radio stations. "Never Played the Bass" was very popular in urban, club and airplay charts and reached number 4 on Tracklisten and was certified gold. It was number one for 4 weeks in the
Hungarian Singles Chart
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.
2012 Nabiha participated in the TV show ''
Toppen af Poppen
''Toppen af Poppen'' is a Danish reality television series broadcast on Danish television station TV 2 as part of '' The Best Singers'' series and is based on the Dutch series ''De beste zangers van Nederland''. Ten seasons have been broadcast t ...
'', together with six other established artists, where each one had to do their own interpretation of one of the other participants songs on the show. Nabiha did an interpretation of "Det' passer" and "Vodoo" among others.
Since then Nabiha has also toured the US with shows in Los Angeles and New York, Finland, Poland, Germany, Denmark and the UK and has had more than 19 syncs in the States, on shows such as ''Mobwives'', ''
Basketball Wives
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'' and ''
Basketball Wives LA'', ''SMASH'', ''SoapTV'' and many more on the local Danish scene.
In 2013, Nabiha released her second album ''
Mind the Gap
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''. It went to number 10 on the album chart and straight to number 1 on the download BIT chart. It was written and produced with Nabiha's long-term music partner, Carl Ryden and Methe Buhl did A&R again. Nabiha and Carl Ryden also collaborated to write ''Mind the Gap'' with Mike Hamilton, Michelle Escoffery and Will Simms.
In 2014 Nabiha's single "
Bang that Drum" was used as the title song for the
2014 European Men's Handball Championship
The 2014 EHF European Men's Handball Championship was the 11th edition of the tournament and held in Denmark from 12–26 January.
Denmark was automatically qualified as hosting nation, and as defending champions as well. After the final, at to ...
. Nabiha performed at the opening ceremony and at the closing of event broadcast to 200 million people.
Nabiha's new single is called "Animals", which peaked at number one on the US dance charts.
Awards and nominations
Since 2010 Nabiha has won or has been nominated at many music award shows.
;Wins
*The Best African Achievement Awards: "Artist of the Year"
*EBBA 2013 – European Border Breakers Awards 2013 for album ''More Cracks''
;Nominations
*5 nominations at the Danish Music Awards (Grammy) for "New Name of the Year", "Video of the Year", "Club hit of the year", "Album of the year", "Female artist on the year".
*P3 Guld (Danish National Radio Awards) for "New Talent of the Year" and "Listeners Hit of the Year"
*Zulu Awards "Female artist of the Year", "Best Female Artist of the Year" and "Hit of the Year"
*Danish Deejay Awards "Urban Release of the Year"
*GAFFA Awards "Hit of the year" and "Artist of the year"
Discography
Albums
Singles
As lead artist
As featured artist
Other charted songs
Music videos
References
External links
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Danish actresses
21st-century Danish women singers
Danish people of Gambian descent
Danish people of Malian descent
Danish people of Moroccan descent
Danish women singer-songwriters
Danish singer-songwriters
English-language singers from Denmark
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Singers from Copenhagen