Born in Malabo on 1st of May 1990, Nelida Karr is the musical revelation and finest voice in Equatorial Guinea. Although she is from a family of musicians, the singer and multi-instrumentalist full of charm and performance has made a first name of her own since she won the first prize of “ el primer premio de la canción Hispania” at the Centro Cultural Española de Malabo in 2007.
She is known by her smooth and potent voice with an excellent improvisational flair. Blending her home-grown musical style with modern sounds brands her music with vigor that goes beyond her roots to an all-encompassing influence that fuses her songs with rhythms around the world’s genres including jazz, blues, soul, and gospel as she sings about the daily issues of life.
She released her first professional album titled Ewerawera in 2010 with the support of the Instituto Cultural de Expresión Francesa (ICEF) in Malabo and qualified as top ten finalists in the RFI Découvert 2013 awards.
Since then Nelida is moving to a prominent position in the new pool of the emerging talents from Africa and has traveled with her band to festivals, concerts and tours in Africa, and Latin America.
Currently she is studying General Music Studies at the Berklee Online School of music as part of her efforts to learn how to read and write music.
She sings in her mother tongue and feels comfortable singing in English, French and Spanish and several languages within Equatorial Guinea without barrier. Many including her consider her music as "revitalizing" with melodies that knits with her sweet voice with the heart.
