Nubia Soul
Biography Nubia Soul
Elnathan Sidu
she is a singer, poet and songwriter who goes by the artist name Nubia Soul. The name Nubia comes from the earliest civilization group of people in the northern parts of Africa, they were commonly referred to as the “A-Group”, and Also Nubia refers to people of colour instead of black or African.
Due to Elnathan's descendant background from Southern Africa tracing to the Northern parts of Africa, she has embraced her diversity as an African child, also she is soulful sister hence she adopted the artist name Nubia Soul.
Elnathan as Nubia Soul has released her debut album in May 2013; through her singing, spoken word of poetry and blogging about the continent's pride, riches, wealth, moral values and culture that has faded away throughout the course of history, she is sounding the call as Nubia Soul for all Africans to embrace and accept who and what they are in their land.
She is originally from the Western Cape in a small town called Ceres, but she grew up in Johannesburg Soweto where she was exposed to a diverse culture and different languages. She was a hyperactive and naughty child, from time to time she would get herself into trouble and her parents’ form of punishment was either a hiding or made her to rehearse with the choir which her dad was conducting. Because she didn't like the hiding as any normal child would not, she constantly choose choir rehearsal as her chosen form of punishment; for Elnathan the choir rehearsals were excruciatingly painful and boring because they were too formal and the musical language was gibberish to her, all she could think about during the rehearsals was the playground and her friends. Music grew within her overtime as she would often go outside to sing one of Whitney Houston's songs "I will always love you" and that changed the course of her life as she started to pay close attention to all musical genres locally and internationally.
In high school Elnathan continued with her passion and interest in music by singing in a school choir and informally being an MC as a rapper by engaging in rap freestyles and battles to which she was declared as an undisputed champion of freestyle rap in Dinwiddie High in Germiston. Her favourite subject was English and literacy which she use to improve her free styling and win battles. Towards the end of her high school days she slowly drifted from being an MC to being a poet and a writer. Choir, rap free styling and writing poetry, these has prepared Elnathan to become Nubia Soul, at a later stage after high school Elnathan began having an interest in recording an album but she faced major obstacles with music producers ripping her off and not getting back her music art that she recorded. During the introduction of mobile iPad and tablet device phenomenon, she also owned an iPad to which she used it to produce beats for herself by using the Application called "Garage Band" and later overlaid her singing voice and backing vocals. She recorded the album with 12 tracks by solely using an iPad application from start to finish to which she named the album " Rise " and it was indeed a beginning of her "Rising" in trying to make a mark in the music industry, she then circulated her first unofficial album to her friends and family for feedback. To which most people were amazed that the album was recorded by using a small device such as an iPad to produce an album that is almost professional. Towards the end of the year 2012 she then properly went to a professional studio to record her debut Album and later it was released in May 2013.
