Birth name Muhsinah Abdul-Karim Origin Washington, D.C., US | Name Abdul-Karim Role Singer Genres R&B / Indie Pop | |
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Born July 20, 1983 (age 40) ( 1983-07-20 ) Occupation(s) Singer/Songwriter, Record Producer, Composer, Arranger Instruments Vocals, Piano, Synthesizers Albums The Oscillations: Triangle, Day.Break 2.0 Nominations Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance Similar People Big Pooh, Common, Carolyn Malachi, Scratcha DVA, Flying Lotus Profiles | ||
Also known as Sinah, The Golden Girl | ||
Muhsinah singer songwriter musician
Muhsinah is a Grammy nominated singer and producer, from Washington DC.
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She cites Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Nirvana and Chopin as among her influences.
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Musical career
A graduate of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and of Howard University, Muhsinah's self-produced EP day.break 2.0 (2008) was described by XLR8R magazine as "a beautiful smack in the face of mainstream hip-hop and R&B convention".
Though a small scale independent release, it attracted the attention of rappers Common as well as Phonte of Little Brother/The Foreign Exchange, both of whom she later recorded with, appearing on Common's Universal Mind Control and The Foreign Exchange's Leave It All Behind.
The Washington Post has written of her as being "part of a new breed of young soul rebels who seamlessly meld electronic beats with layers of jazzy arrangements and unorthodox song structure", and as "equally at home chopping loops and tapping pads on an Akai MPC as she is behind a piano keyboard".
Muhsinah was acknowledged by Radiohead frontman, Thom Yorke, on their website Dead Air Space on March 15, 2010 when he listed the song, "Lose My Fuse (Produced By Flying Lotus)" among his favorites at the time the post was published.