I can listen without buying on-flight Wi-Fi, and every day during my commute on the NYC subway when the Wi-Fi and LTE signals inevitably cut out underground. It’s really handy to have tunes stored locally on my phone for a multitude of reasons.
Move forward, work hard.”Īnd she had a message for her supporters, whose success she said she is praying for: “One love.Perhaps I’m in the minority, but I still download a lot of music from Spotify. “I want to go further in my career, do more performances. “You’re somewhere else every day,” she said. When asked what was next for her, Nimco said she is taking everything step-by-step. “People are sharing their happiness for me, with me,” she said. She said people call her simply to congratulate her or to let her know there are different companies looking to get in touch with her. “Wallahi, my phone doesn't rest,” she said. Now Nimco said since the hit went viral, she can’t go out without being recognized, so she makes sure to always have a face covering on that leaves her unidentifiable. BuzzFeed News understands that her team is working on removing the unauthorized uploads. The official version of “Isii Nafta” was made available on streaming platforms this week, after Nimco signed with Polydor. Collectively those uploads have received more than 500,000 listens, none of which will count toward Nimco’s official streaming numbers. She said she’s now performed the song on almost all Somali TV channels in the years since.Īfter it recently gained traction on TikTok, people have mainly been streaming the song on YouTube and via unauthorized uploads on Spotify. The now-viral video of her performance was recorded in June 2017, when she performed for a show being broadcast for Eid on Kenya-based Somali channel RTV. In 2015, she began her music career, posting songs on YouTube and performing locally. “When you're young in Somali culture, when someone gets into performing music, we tell them to sit down because they're too young,” Nimco said. Now she sometimes performs with her musician husband. She first got into music as a child playing guitar and always wanted to perform but waited until she was married with children. Growing up, Nimco used to listen mainly to Somali women, such as Khadra Daahir, Sahra Axmed, and Saynab Cige, she said.
I have seen the ones by the white boys singing my song. “I love seeing people sing in our language,” she said. Nimco loves watching people engage with Somali culture through her song. We constantly hype each other up, so we were obsessed with the song, and our energy is infectious so other people became obsessed too.” “We are such a supportive ethnic group of people. “Somalis are just main characters,” Iman said. Hibak Iman, 24, based in Melbourne, Australia, told BuzzFeed News that the song’s multilingual part helped it go viral.
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