ZOHARA (born Zohara Niddam, 1988) is an electronic music producer and a performer, releasing music independently since 2016.
ZOHARA is currently putting the final touches on her new album - a forward-thinking, futuristic piece, utterly unadulterated and uncompromising. The album represents the spirit of merging cultures - her Moroccan roots, the psychedelic diversity of Tel Aviv, and her LHR-TLV addiction. A messy, coherent, scattered, crystallized middle-eastern-west self-asking creation.
ZOHARA’s debut album ‘Growing Up Anyways’ (2016) had already explored a broad spectrum of avant-garde sounds and production techniques. With it’s unusual melodies and composition entrenched with anecdotes, it is an ode to the young Millenials.
The release was followed by headline shows in London (Birthdays), Paris (Silencio), Estonia (TMW) and Israel (Teder, Bascula, Barby and more..). ZOHARA was also invited by Perform Genius to support his 2015 Israel show and regularly plays in various festivals (InDnegev, Yearot Menashe, Imagine Festival and more...).
‘Growing Up Anyways’ received rave reviews by top Indie magazines such as Clash, Konbini, ID Magazine, It's All Indie, The Line of Best Fit, and more. The single ‘Bass & Drum’ was featured on MTV, while ‘Play’ was included in the official playlist of Israel’s most popular radio station ‘Galgaltaz’.
Overall ‘Growing Up Anyways’ achievements:
- Over 150k engaged users on social media
- 1st place in the international indie-pop category (Bandcamp)
- 2nd place in the international women’s category (Bandcamp)
- 5th place in the international Electronic category (Bandcamp)
- 17th place in Israel (iTunes)
Since 2017, ZOHARA has also been acting as the lead singer of the British band Oi Va Voi’.
Their joint album ‘Memory Drop’ was released by V2 in 2018, to great critical acclaim, and was featured in The Guardian, Evening Standard, and Songlines. The band appeared on The Tom Robinson Show (BBC 6 Music), Clive Anderson (BBC 4), and the Dutch TV show Nijverheid, and sold out both of their London shows at Omeara and Islington Assembly Hall. They finished 2018 with a sold-out
tour in Germany, Holland, Russia, Turkey, and Israel.
In 2019, ZOHARA performed at The Royal Academy of Art in an event around the Anthony Gormley’s new exhibition, headlined The Shacklewell Arms, supported Audiobooks at Electrowerkz and Paper Dress Vintage, and continued touring Europe as the lead singer of Oi Va Voi.
In 2021, ZOHARA Signed to a new London-based label established by the celebrated mixer Davis Wrench with a list of accolades, including Grammy, Brit and Mercury prize nominations. He has worked with Caribou, Frank Ocean, Jamie xx, Arlo Parks and David Bryn and won the Mercury Prize for Sampha's album Process in 2017. Setting his sights on Zohara as his latest project; he undeniably recognized her omnivorous musical appetite early on.
"Zohara had sent me her music a few years ago, and it immediately struck me as being unique and special. "She is a really talented producer and a wonderful singer. I was immediately struck by how her music combines both various influences not often heard together but was also really catchy. When she first sent me the demo of 'Sing A Song', it was stuck in my head for days". Wrench founded a new label, Studio Bruxo, and ZOHARA became his first signee. They released three singles together in 2021, and 2022.
It's been no easy feat realising both Zohara's sound and her ambitions. Growing up far from the audience she's working with today, she's a self-made, female artist in a male-dominated industry, making eastern-western music in a genre geared for western tastes. ZOHARA (born Zohara Niddam, 1988) is an electronic music producer and a performer, releasing music independently since 2016.
ZOHARA is currently putting the final touches on her new album - a forward-thinking, futuristic piece, utterly unadulterated and uncompromising. The album represents the spirit of merging cultures - her Moroccan roots, the psychedelic diversity of Tel Aviv and her LHR-TLV addiction. A messy, coherent, scattered, crystallized middle-eastern-west self-asking creation.
ZOHARA’s debut album ‘Growing Up Anyways’ (2016) had already explored a broad spectrum of avant-garde sounds and production techniques. With it’s unusual melodies and composition entrenched with anecdotes, it is an ode to the young Millenials.
The release was followed by headline shows in London (Birthdays), Paris (Silencio), Estonia (TMW) and Israel (Teder, Bascula, Barby and more..). ZOHARA was also invited by Perform Genius to support his 2015 Israel show and regularly plays in various festivals (InDnegev, Yearot Menashe, Imagine Festival and more…).
‘Growing Up Anyways’ received rave reviews by top Indie magazines such as Clash, Konbini, ID Magazine, It's All Indie, The Line of Best Fit and more. The single ‘Bass & Drum’ was featured on MTV, while ‘Play’ was included in the official playlist of Israel’s most popular radio station ‘Galgaltaz’.
Overall ‘Growing Up Anyways’ achievements:
Over 150k engaged users on social media
1st place in the international indie-pop category (Bandcamp)
2nd place in the international women’s category (Bandcamp)
5th place in the international Electronic category (Bandcamp)
17th place in Israel (iTunes)
Since 2017, ZOHARA has also been acting as the lead singer of the British band ‘Oi Va Voi’.
Their joint album ‘Memory Drop’ was released by V2 in 2018, to great critical acclaim, and was featured in The Guardian, Evening Standard and Songlines.
The band appeared on The Tom Robinson Show (BBC 6 Music), Clive Anderson (BBC 4), the Dutch TV show Nijverheid, and sold out both of their London shows at Omeara and Islington Assembly Hall. They finished 2018 with a sold-out tour in Germany, Holland, Russia, Turkey, and Israel.
In 2019, ZOHARA performed at The Royal Academy of Art in event around the Anthony Gormley’s new exhibition , headlined The Shacklewell Arms, supported Audiobooks at Electrowerkz and Paper Dress Vintage, and continued touring Europe as the lead singer of Oi Va Voi.