NINA ATTAL
Genres: Funk, RnB • France

With more than 500 concerts to her credit and the cheekiness of her mere 24 years, Nina Attal breaks down all the usual barriers. The precocious blues prodigy, considered at the age of 16 one of the most promising voices in the field of blues laments, has turned into a furious funkster. Her second album, Wha, produced in New York under the aegis of Philippe Devin and Jerry Barnes—the noted bass player with Chic and a distinguished sideman on the Black music scene in the US—offers a powerful mix of B.B. King, Stevie Wonder, Albert King and Chaka Khan inflections in a solid setting of tasteful Rhodes sounds, stylish guitar licks and sparkling horn riffs. At first hearing, Nina Attal sounds like an opulent blues diva from Memphis or the Mississippi Delta. This impression couldn’t be further from the truth. The natural strength of her dynamic pipes has nothing to do read more...