Muhsinah

Muhsinah
Background information
Also known asSinah, The Golden Girl
Born
Muhsinah Abdul-Karim

(1983-07-20) July 20, 1983 (age 43)
OriginWashington, D.C., US
GenreR&B / Indie pop
OccupationsSinger/songwriter, record producer, composer, arranger
InstrumentsVocals, piano, synthesizers
Years active2007–present
LabelUnsigned
Websitemuhsinah.com

Muhsinah (/mʊˈsiːnə/; born July 20, 1983) is an American Grammy Award nominated singer and producer, from Washington, D.C.

She cites Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Nirvana and Chopin as among her influences.

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.

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Result
2010 "Daykeeper" (with The Foreign Exchange) Best Urban/Alternative Performance Nominated

Discography

Extended plays

Year Album title Label
2007 day.break (US) / pre.lude (JP) Rxlngr / Circulations
2008 The Oscillations: Sine Rxlngr – (Digital Only)
2009 The Oscillations: Triangle Rxlngr – (Digital Only)
2014 M Self-released
2016 January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August

Production

Guest appearances

References

  1. ↑ Rico Washington, "Muhsinah: Defying R&B" XLR8R, May 1, 2008|
  2. ↑ www.radiohead.com Archived June 16, 2010, at the Wayback Machine