Nadir Omowale
Artist – Producer – Creative Strategist
“New York City was recently blessed with a live performance from funk guitarist & vocalist, Nadir. He has been mystifying audiences for many years with that ‘stone cold funk’ that undeniably rocks your world, get your hips gyrating and your head bobbin’!”
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Everyone’s approach to life is just a little bit different than the next cat. Some of us need to isolate and conquer, one task at a time, in order to get where we’re going.
Don’t lump Nadir Omowale in that group.
To say that the East Tennessee transplant to Detroit is busy these days would be a serious understatement. Nadir juggles the responsibilities of running a company and involvement in various causes and organizations, all the while playing his award-winning music with his band Nadir’s Distorted Soul.
Topping it all off is his current stint with MTV as the Choose or Lose 2008 correspondent to the state of Michigan, which lasts until the presidential election in November.
DFP caught up with the ultra-motivated multi-threat himself to learn a little bit more about the man.
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On December 20, 2007, MTV announced their collaboration with AP Online Video Network for coverage of the 2008 Elections. As you will see below, they have selected a citizen journalist from each state to file weekly stories from a youth perspective throughout the year. The MTV Michigan correspondent will be funk/soul artist Nadir Omowale.
AP Online Video Network & Top Mobile Carriers to Distribute
Weekly “Street Team ’08” Reports
Knight Foundation Grant Helps Power
Mobile Media Election Coverage Experiment
December 20, 2007 – New York, NY – MTV, as part of its Emmy-winning “Choose or Lose” campaign (www.ChooseorLose.com), today unveiled “Street Team ’08”: a specially recruited group of 51 citizen journalists – one from every state and Washington, D.C. – who will cover the 2008 elections from a youth perspective and tailor their reports for mobile devices. The members will contribute weekly, multi-media reports (short form videos, blogs, animation, photos, podcasts) that will be distributed via a soon-to-launch WAP site, MTV Mobile, Think.MTV.com and to the more than 1,800 sites in the Associated Press Online Video Network. Carefully selected by MTV after an extensive nationwide search, the one-of-a-kind press corps will be armed with mobile media like laptops, video cameras and cell phones, and charged with uncovering the untold political stories that matter most to young people in their respective states. Continue reading
Nadir’s photo is on the cover of this week’s “Play” Entertainment Weekly in the Detroit Free Press. The feature highlights the Detroit International River Days Festival. NADIR’s Distorted Soul performed there on Tuesday, June 26, 8:00pm at the new Detroit Riverwalk.
Special thanks to Amy Leang for the dope photo and to Nancy Schoenheide-Phares for being THE BEST.
For the third year in a row the Detroit music community voted Nadir the Outstanding Urban/Funk Songwriter at the 16th Annual Detroit Music Awards for his 5th DMA trophy total!
Thanks to all of YOU for the love, support and work you gave to make it possible! Congratulations to all the nominees and winners at this year’s DMAs.
For more details check out www.detroitmusicawards.com
In the summer of 2006, NADIR was interviewed by UK songwriting coach Calvin Rele for his website Songwriting Tips Online. Their conversation is now available as a four hour audio master class that you can download HERE.
Calvin and NADIR share their tips, tricks and techniques for great songwriting. What you are about to discover will seriously turbo-charge your creativity and get those songwriting juices flowing and more importantly, you’ll be able to fill in ALL the blanks and start writing song after song, with complete ease.
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