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Wafia

Wafia Al-Rikabi merges brooding EDM and warmer pop with a heartfelt delivery as Wafia. After debuting with the EP XXIX in 2015, she had a dalliance with Atlantic, which released her fourth EP, 2020's optimistic Good Things. Her Nettwerk-issued debut album, the Sabrina Claudio-produced Promised Land, followed in 2025. A deeply personal record, it touched on her experiences with being unhoused, facing Islamophobia, and with relationships in the 2020s.A Netherlands-born, L.A.-based musician of Arab descent that inspires some of her music, Wafia had an intercontinental upbringing that included time in Australia before she began to write songs as a break from pre-med studies at university. In mid-2014, she uploaded the track "Let Me Love You," and it accumulated millions of plays. Named for the atomic number of copper expressed in Roman numerals, her debut EP, XXIX, was released in 2015 by Future Classic, then home of electronic artists such as Flume and Chet Faker (Nick Murphy). She followed it a year later with a collaborative EP with labelmate Ta-ku called (m)edian. Still with Future Classic, the single "83 Days" arrived in May 2017, accompanied by a live acoustic version with singer/songwriter Ben Abraham on piano and backing vocals. Another solo single, "Bodies," followed that September and was later included on her 2018 EP VIII. That same year, Wafia was featured on Louis the Child's "Better Not," which spawned both an acoustic version and a remix collection. She followed up with the solo single "I'm Good" before reuniting with Louis the Child on the Whethan-featuring collaboration "Hurts" in 2019. Later that year, she joined Ekali for the uplifting track "Be Fine." Wafia's growing fan base led to a contract with Atlantic, and the label issued her fourth EP, the more uplifting, R&B-tinged Good Things, in August 2020. The next year, she teamed up with Abir and BEAM for the single "Searching," and with Ta-ku and Masego for the club outing "Wide Open," both for Atlantic. By the end of 2021, she had parted ways with Atlantic, and she landed on Heartburn Records/Nettwerk in time for the 2022 solo single "In the Honey" before preparing her full-length debut.When Wafia returned with the lead single "Background" in April 2024, it was with a warmer, more guitar-based, indie-leaning sound that still incorporated elements of sleeker pop and dance music. That song was representative of February 2025's Promised Land, a more personal record that drew on her struggles with being housed, xenophobia, and relationships. It was produced by singer and songwriter Sabrina Claudio.
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