Ni Maxine, neo-jazz singer-songwriter makes her highly anticipated debut with ‘Strange Love’, a revolutionary 21st Century jazz song capturing a universal journey to self-love. Inspired by ‘I May Destroy You’ (Michaela Coel), Ni Maxine ruminates in a 6/8, bass-heavy jazzy dream-space before a Bossa-Nova awakening, acknowledging love that’s ’right beneath your nose’, away from validation-seeking.

Strange Love

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Ni Maxine - Strange Love (Radio Edit)

This emotive new collaboration is symbolic, two people from different corners of the UK ‘coming together, sharing common dreams’, looking forward to when people start to realise that we are all ‘more similar than we care to admit’ and should come together to stand up for our collective rights and freedom. We don’t have to accept the way that things are. We can change the world if we stand together. Join the movement.

Rudi Creswick x Ni Maxine - Dark Days Are Done

God Bless The Child’, written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. and released in 1942, reflects on the complex family relationships and the importance of being self-sufficient. Here is Ni Maxine's reimagining of this classic.

God Bless The Child

An ‘old soul’ jazz singer with the passion of bringing people together in the name of food, conversation and jazz. Taking inspiration from the greats such as Nancy Wilson and Ella Fitzgerald, I enjoy telling stories and connecting with emotions through performance of jazz standards and writing my own #BathTubJazz.

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Hailed a ‘Black Woman at The Forefront of the UK Jazz Scene’ (Black Ballad), Ni Maxine is a Neo-Jazz Singer-Songwriter; a Black British woman sparking intergenerational conversations for change, exploring themes of home, identity, self-esteem & belonging. 

Described as Erykah Badu & Gil Scott-Heron’s lovechild, her conscious & political lyricism has taken her to the main stage at Liverpool’s Africa Oyé & London Jazz Festival. With a BBC Introducing highlight session under her belt & her debut single ‘Strange Love’ played across Jazz FM, Radio 1, 1Xtra & Selector Radio (internationally), Ni Maxine is one to watch.

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