Malcolm X, Prince, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, Miles Davis, Nat Turner, Jimi Hendrix, The Bible, Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy, Assata Shakur, Cameo, Andre Crouch, Kings X, Muhammad Ali, Alice Walker, Stanley Clarke, Sting & The Police, The I-Ching, Che Guevara, Parliament/Funkadelic, Patrice Lumumba, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, The Celestine Prophecy, Bob Marley, Langston Hughes, Fela Kuti, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Brown, Marcus Garvey, Luther Vandross, Rev. James Cleveland, Kwame Ture, Robert F. Williams, The Kybalion, John Coltrane, The Matrix (There is no spoon), Marvin Gaye, Bruce Lee, Rush, Franz Fanon, The Isley Brothers, Ntozake Shange, The Roots, Howard Zinn, A Tribe Called Quest, Ray Charles, Spike Lee, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Bill Withers, Charles R. Johnson, Al Green, Maya Angelou, D'Angelo, The Quran
"Life in the Fast Lane" Best Rock Song of 2008: Soul-Patrol.com
"The Most Relevant Album of 2008! Imagine if you could listen to an album that sounded like it was James Brown + Gil Scott-Heron + Public Enemy... This is clearly one of the best new releases of 2008..." www.Soul-Patrol.com
"Molotov Soul...Funk & Rock and political awareness make an explosive mixture..." - www.SoulSite.de
"Quite simply, this album is stocked with powerful songs that are at once angry, eloquent, passionate, insightful and very, very good." www.SoulTracks.com
SLAVE: The Remixtape
(Bikiniwax Records/EAPro)
2008 Detroit Music Award
Outstanding Electronic/Dance Recording
"Slave" - Finalist in The John Lennon International Songwriting Contest
"It's a fantastic example of what remixers can do when given good material... If you're into remixes, Nadir's Slave: The Remixtape is a tour-de-force of remixing." Synthtopia
Slave: The Remixtape is not an album. It’s a Remixtape, an album length collection of banging tracks that covers just about every genre of club and radio fare - Crunk, Funk, Hip-hop, Rock, Funky House, Techno - it's all there on Slave: The Remixtape!
Distorted Soul 2.0
(EAPro)
Best Funk Album of 2005: Soul-Patrol.com
2005 Detroit Music Award
Outstanding Urban Funk/Hip Hop Recording
"It's STONE COLD FUNK, it makes you DANCE, it ROCKS your world, it's got GREAT LYRICS, it's got POWERHOUSE SOUL SINGING, it's got GREAT MUSICIANSHIP,it makes you THINK about the world and it makes you SMILE." www.soul-patrol.com
"The music... is stunning - there are at least a half dozen potential hits. The major labels should be all over this album, as should fans of gutsy R&B and rock. Recommended." www.soultracks.com
Some artists defy classification.
Detroit's revolutionary soul man, Nadir, rebels against it.
His solo debut Distorted Soul 2.0 was crowned "Best Funk Album of the Year" by Soul-Patrol.com and earned a Detroit Music Award for "Outstanding Urban Funk/Hip-Hop Recording", after international spins on Urban A/C, Rock, Urban Contemporary and even Smooth Jazz radio.
Slave: The Remixtape, which offers fourteen very different remixes of Nadir's award-winning composition "Slave" (and six additional tracks online) - in Crunk, Funk, Hip-hop, Rock, Funky House, Techno styles and more - was a 5 Breakout track on Billboard's Club Play chart, and took home a Detroit Music Award for Outstanding Electronic Dance Recording.
On Nadir's new album, Workin' For The Man, revolutionary socio-political commentary collides with explosive funk and hip hop. Nadir describes the album as a "political dance record" designed to make you dance and think at the same time.
Witnesses can catch Nadir skanking funk guitar on tour in the U.S., Canada or Europe, or rocking an acoustic in front of the White House demanding that George Bush step down. His funk-rock jam band, Distorted Soul, rips through Nadir's diverse originals, then fires off hard rocking versions of soul classics like "Love TKO" or reincarnates rock anthems like "Life in the Fast Lane" as dance floor friendly funk burners.
Topping it all off was his stint with MTV as the Choose or Lose 2008 correspondent to the state of Michigan, which lasted through the presidential election in November. Click HERE to check out some of his reports.
"When you get right down to it," Nadir explains, "I'm all about telling stories, singing songs and making music that moves people - spiritually, emotionally, physically, politically, whatever. Don't just sit there! Do something!"
This Southern-bred singer-songwriter and his stalwart band play with an aplomb that could raise the corpses of Marley and Hendrix. No $h!t To label them simply neo-soul would be downright reductive." Metro Times, Detroit"
NADIR has received several recent awards for his work including:
- Nine Detroit Music Awards: Three in a row (2005-2007) for Outstanding Urban/Funk Songwriter; Outstanding Urban/Funk Vocalist (2006, 2008 & 2009); Outstanding Urban/Funk/Hip Hop Recording (2005) for Distorted Soul 2.0 and (2009) for Workin' For The Man ; Outstanding Electronic Dance Recording (2008) for Slave: The Remixtape
- A finalist berth in the John Lennon International Songwriting Contest for "Slave"
- He was selected by the editors of Billboard Magazine as a finalist in the 2004 Independent Music World Series
- Listeners at GarageBand.com raved over his song "Slave" voting the track No. 1 Best Male Vocals in Funk, all-time, No. 1 Bitter Breakup Song in Funk, all-time, No. 2 Best Lyrics in Funk, all-time
Distorted Soul 2.0 is a ground-breaking album that has received rave reviews from critics and listeners alike. Chris Rizik of Soultracks.com says "The praise is well deserved, as this is absolutely infectious urban rock, calling to mind the better moments of artists from Ernie Isley to Lenny Kravitz." Dirk Binsau, publisher of the website Jazz-Not-Jazz.com, believes NADIR "has really developed a sound and style of his own and Distorted Soul 2.0 is very different from what Ive heard in a long time and thats what makes this album special."
"Its STONE COLD FUNK, it makes you DANCE, it ROCKS your world, its got GREAT LYRICS, it's got POWERHOUSE SOUL SINGING, it's got GREAT MUSCIANSHIP, it makes you THINK about the world and it makes you SMILE." - www.soul-patrol.com-
Slave: The Remixtape features 14 captivating new versions (20 at some digital retailers) of NADIR's award-winning song by some of the best young producers on the scene. Guaranteed to make you a slave to the dancefloor!
"It's a fantastic example of what remixers can do when given good material... If you're into remixes, Nadir's Slave: The Remixtape is a tour-de-force of remixing." -Synthtopia-
Workin' For The Man is a high powered political barn burner, packed with revolutionary funk, soul, rock, hip hop and house. Bob Davis of Soul-Patrol.com says, “Imagine if you could listen to an album that sounded like it was James Brown + Gil Scott-Heron + Public Enemy?” And... “This is clearly one of the best new releases of 2008 and something that is truly worthy of your attention at this time.”
"Nadir is a revolutionary artist. Nadir has a revolutionary agenda. Nadir thinks that it is ok to HAVE FUN and THINK. Nadir’s new album Workin’ for the Man makes you do both."
- www.soul-patrol.com-
Nadir covered the 2008 elections as Michigan correspondent for MTV's Emmy Award-winning Choose or Lose/Street Team '08. MTV hired a group of 51 young citizen journalists to report on the election from the viewpoint of young people in their states. The Street Team submitted weekly video, audio and multimedia stories about the campaign.
Nadir received special recognition from the project's producers for his coverage of under reported stories. He was also one of the few reporters selected to cover the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul. MTV's Street Team '08 was awarded an Emmy Award for their ground breaking citizen journalism.
Nadir, It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, thank you for the hospitality. Man, your tracks are slammin'! Congratulations on your awards, truly well deserved.
Nadir,Congrats on your wins last night at the Detroit Music Awards, also thanks for the help with me later that night on automobile situation After Party was a blast, peace and blues, Paul
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His solo debut 
Workin' For The Man is a high powered political barn burner, packed with revolutionary funk, soul, rock, hip hop and house. Bob Davis of 
