{"id":39139,"date":"2014-10-21T13:09:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T12:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=39139"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:34:08","slug":"new-noise-nick-hakim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2014\/10\/21\/new-noise-nick-hakim\/","title":{"rendered":"New Noise: Nick Hakim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wonderland talks to the Brooklyn based artist wooing us with his heartbreaking take on Soul<\/p>\n

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In a sea of evasive pop songs, Nick Hakim\u2019s brutally direct and heartfelt melodies have gained quite the following resulting in sellout concerts across Europe. His culturally diverse upbringing in Washington D.C has helped mold an artist unafraid to blend genres and come up with something really rather special. Influenced by classics such as Marvin Gaye to more contemporary artists with the likes of D\u2019Angelo and John Legend, there is no containing Nick\u2019s signature sound.<\/p>\n

An artist unpreoccupied with end results and media attention, his classy melodies will have the most uncomfortable of singers freestyling along to his tracks. End result? A whole barrage of coverage from Vogue to The Huffpost. Indeed, his integrity has paid off. Nick supported an icon of his Maxwell and is about to support How to Dress Well on their UK tour.<\/p>\n

We talk to Nick about being pigeonholed, how music kept him out of trouble, love and loss.<\/p>\n