Nabiha Bensouda (born 1 September 1981) is a Danish singer and songwriter.
Career ”Deep Sleep", the first single from the album peaked as 4 on the Danish Tracklisten Singles Chart and was certified gold. Bensouda has already played a number of large venues, including opening for James Morrison at the Falconer Theatre in Copenhagen and playing at the Danish National Football stadium.
Nabiha was a support act for Rasmus Seebach on a sold-out tour. She also toured with James Morrison concert in Copenhagen, Jason Derulo's and Jamie Cullum's German tours. In February 2011 Nabiha toured all over Denmark with marked success.
In September 2011 Nabiha released the new international edit of her debut album now called More Cracks and included four new songs; "Never Played the Bass", "Sound of My Gun", "Can't Do Anything" and "Trouble" which went into high rotation on Danish radio stations. "Never Played the Bass" was very popular in urban, club and airplay charts and reached number 4 on Tracklisten and was certified gold. It was number one for 4 weeks in the Hungarian Singles Chart.
2012 Nabiha participated in the TV show Toppen af Poppen, together with six other established artists, where each one had to do their own interpretation of one of the other participants songs on the show. Nabiha did an interpretation of "Det' passer" and "Vodoo" among others.
Since then Nabiha has also toured the US with shows in Los Angeles and New York, Finland, Poland, Germany, Denmark and the UK and has had more than 19 syncs in the States, on shows such as Mobwives, Basketball Wives and Basketball Wives LA, SMASH, SoapTV and many more on the local Danish scene.
In 2013, Nabiha released her second album Mind the Gap. It went to number 10 on the album chart and straight to number 1 on the download BIT chart. It was written and produced with Nabiha's long-term music partner, Carl Ryden and Methe Buhl did A&R again. Nabiha and Carl Ryden also collaborated to write Mind the Gap with Mike Hamilton, Michelle Escoffery and Will Simms.
In 2014 Nabiha's single "Bang that Drum" was used as the title song for the 2014 European Men's Handball Championship. Nabiha performed at the opening ceremony and at the closing of event broadcast to 200 million people.
Nabiha's new single is called "Animals", which peaked at number one on the US dance charts.
Awards and nominations Since 2010 Nabiha has won or has been nominated at many music award shows. Wins The Best African Achievement Awards: "Artist of the Year" EBBA 2013 – European Border Breakers Awards 2013 for album More Cracks Nominations 5 nominations at the Danish Music Awards (Grammy) for "New Name of the Year", "Video of the Year", "Club hit of the year", "Album of the year", "Female artist on the year". P3 Guld (Danish National Radio Awards) for "New Talent of the Year" and "Listeners Hit of the Year" Zulu Awards "Female artist of the Year", "Best Female Artist of the Year" and "Hit of the Year" Danish Deejay Awards "Urban Release of the Year" GAFFA Awards "Hit of the year" and "Artist of the year"
Discography
Albums Year Album Peak chart positionsDEN2010 Cracks 172011 More Cracks 132013 Mind the Gap 1
Singles
As lead artist Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications AlbumDENDENAirplayNabiha in Danish Airplay Top-20 Charts: "Deep Sleep": Airplay Top-20 — Uge 04 – 2010. hislisterne.dk. "The Enemy": Airplay Top-20 — Uge 19 – 2010. hislisterne.dk. "Never Played the Bass": Airplay Top-20 – Uge 05 – 2012. hitlisterne.dk. "Mind the Gap": Airplay Top-20 – Uge 46 – 2012. hitlisterne.dk. "Ask Yourself": Airplay Top-20 — Uge 09 – 2013. hislisterne.dk. Retrieved 12 August 2013.BE(Vl)BE (Vl)DanceNabiha in Flanders Charts: "Never Play the Bass": Nabiha – Never Played the Bass (in Dutch). ultratop.be. "Mind the Gap": Nabiha – Mind The Gap (in Dutch). ultratop.be. Retrieved 12 August 2013.BE (Vl)TipUSDanceNabiha – Chart history: Dance/Club Play Songs. Billboard.com. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 12 August 2013.HUMahaszTop 40Airplay Chart HUMahaszTop 40Single ChartITTop 100Airplay Chart2010 "Deep Sleep" 4 7 — — — — — — —IFPI DK: Gold (download)Cracks /More Cracks "The Enemy" 6 6 — — — — — — — IFPI DK: Gold (download) 2011 "Never Played the Bass" 4 3 — 35 12 37 1 1 — IFPI DK: Gold (download) IFPI DK: Platinum (streaming) 2012 "Mind the Gap" 1 1 37 27 2 — 2 2 — IFPI DK: Platinum (download) IPPI DK: Platinum (streaming)Mind the Gap 2013 "Ask Yourself" 14 2 — — — — — — — IFPI DK: Gold (streaming)2014 "Bang That Drum" 4 — — — — — — — — IFPI DK: Gold (streaming) "Animals" 3 — — — — 1 — — 59"—" means the single was not released in that country.
As featured artist Year Single Peak chart positionsDEN2012 "Raise the Roof"(Hampenberg & Alexander Brownfeat. Pitbull, Fatman Scoop & Nabiha) 8
Other charted songs Year Single Peak chart positions AlbumDEN 2012 "Woodoo" 30From album Toppen Af Poppen 3 – Synger Sanne Salomonsen "Det passer" 26 From album Toppen Af Poppen 3 – Synger Johnson
Music videos SongYear"Deep Sleep"2010 "Trouble"2011"Never Played the Bass"2012"Mind the Gap""Ask Yourself"2013 "Bang That Drum"2014"Animals"
References
External links