Biography

One-woman-band, Nasimiyu, embodies black girl magic. Her rich and uplifting production style is genre-fluid, but when asked to be more specific she’ll tell you that her sonic palette is a mix of organic, eclectic, ethnic, and worldly. That it draws from the ancestral. Having been a member of widely varied music projects in New York and New Orleans, from fronting trap-pop duo Baeb Rxxth, to touring as drummer for the experimental Kalbells and punk trio Sharkmuffin, to working as a teaching artist for Carnegie Hall, Simi has saved her most personal deep dives for her solo work. Growing up in Minneapolis, Simi was immersed in a multicultural household where song and dance were her first language. This special connection has been the foundation of her pathway to music, a therapeutic medium that Simi has been actively working toward for her entire life. "It's always been a method of survival,” she explains. “Even when I was writing songs and poems when I was a little kid, it was a way of exploring the worlds of deep emotion.” Her forthcoming album, P O T I O N S, is titled in reference to Simi’s inner child casting spells, setting intentions, and making magic in the face of opposition. Some of the other themes that Simi navigates through this beautiful body of work are love, communalism, the divine feminine, psychedelic medicine, witchcraft, and forbidden fruit. By putting the rawest version of herself out in the open, she hopes others will feel inspired to do the same.