About

Born in Düsseldorf in 1995 and now based in Berlin, Niklas Nadidai’s path runs from the newcomer stages of North Rhine-Westphalia to international tours and the biggest festival stages in the German-speaking world.

Built on hip-hop, punk and jazz, what defines Niklas Nadidai above all is a fundamentally open attitude and a pronounced, open sense of aesthetics. Coherence and care are as much a premise as an expressive performance.

Niklas Nadidai’s musical range is as varied as the work itself. A degree in music education and German studies, event series of his own, and teaching from university lecture halls to the juvenile prison system led, with the move to Berlin in 2023, to working full time as a touring musician, music director and producer. Since 2023 he has been consistently either on tour or in the studio. Away from the stage he builds synth patches, Ableton sessions and live band arrangements, writes and produces songs with artists across genres, and releases instrumental hip-hop beats under his own name.

His personal highlights on the live side include music directing for Eurovision winner Nemo and Nemo’s “Break The Code” EU tour, playing Rock am Ring and Rock im Park with Drangsal, and headline tours with Schramm and Mayberg in venues from 50 to 5,000 capacity. In the studio, the hip-hop work with Lord Folter and Samy Deluxe stands out, as does the indie and pop work with Drangsal, Schramm, KitschKrieg and MilleniumKid.

Stylistically he moves more or less without borders. Hip-hop is followed by synth-pop, followed by post-punk, followed by indie-pop, followed by noise-rock, followed by jazz, followed by lo-fi – always with an eye on the most expressive treatment the style and the song will carry.