Nailah’s voice resonates with the spirit of her influences, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, Curtis Mayfield, James Taylor, Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson. Honoring that spirit is what moved Nailah to walk away from a lucrative career as an attorney on Capitol Hill, with the understanding that music had a far more profound effect on the human condition than any legislation she could lobby for.

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