Nicki

Singer-songwriter-composer-producer Nicki Wells, having recently gained a first class honours degree in music, has been working on her solo debut album as well as multiple collaborations with various artists and producers including the acclaimed Nitin Sawhney. She has already been featured on his work from album recordings to performances in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Opera House and Sadlers Wells and is featured on the recent BBC hit series the ‘Human Planet’.

In January of 2011, Nicki composed the score for Tanika Gupta’s theatrical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’, receiving critical acclaim as it toured theaters and playhouses throughout the country.

Having already performed in countries as a singer to sell out audiences in regions as diverse as Australia, the Middle East, the Far East & Europe, she has astounded audiences all over the world with her incomparable ability to traverse the gaps between old and new, east and west and contemporary chic and classicism.

Nicki is an exciting young talent and one to watch out for as her multi-faceted career develops.

Reviews

“The lead female vocalist, Nicki Wells, immediately captured the audience’s attention with her ability to belt out melodies in just about every known Indian style of music from Bengali folk and Hindustani classical raagas to soulful blues back-up singing. She was definitely the star attraction of the show, aside from Sawhney himself.”

Guy Life. Review of Nitin Sawhney’s Bluefrog show in Mumbai, India. Feb 2012

“Nitin’s band is mostly white, and his starry-voiced lead singer is a 21-year-old natural blonde called Nicki Wells, a student of classical Indian music who is set for a major career judging from her extraordinarily beautiful singing last night.

Whether any listener will ever be qualified to judge whether Nicki is “authentic” or not seems to me beside the point, when you’re listening to a voice of such fresh, luminously expressive timbre. I am not sure you need any expertise in authentic Indian classical singing to enjoy the mellifluous sweetness in this girl’s delivery.”

The Arts Desk. About Nitin Sawhney and Akram Khan’s show Confluence

“… Sawhney’s outstanding band, led by the staggering voice of Nicki Wells, emerge from behind the grey gauze at the back of the set.”

The Telegraph. About Nitin Sawhney and Akram Khan’s show Confluence

“Blonde chanteuse Nicki Wells sang the gorgeous Sanskrit poem Sloka to near pin-drop silence”

Evening Standard. Last Days of Meaning Album Launch. Royal Albert Hall

“The music is gorgeous, particularly the songs written for the haunting voice of talented singer Nicki Wells”

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