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Nadia Sohaei: composer, arrangements & vocals
Niklas Wejedal: keyboards & additional voices
Nadia Sohaei was born to the music as classical pianist and mezzo soprano singer. her mother was a concert pianist and her first piano teacher. After her classical carrer she discovered the world of the synthesizer in 1990. She created soundtracks for movies and music for the soul, as Nadia Sohaei and later under the name of Thai-Essence.
In 1994, she met Trans-X and Neuronium Productions and she starts playing live keyboards in the new remixes of "Living on Video" in Barcelona, with Pascal Languirand (trans-X).
Through this collaboration, she met Chaly Chicago, who would be crucial for developing the Thai-Essence project, finishing in 2000 her first record "inside" and in 2002 her second record in this project: "this is my life". While a part of this project, she developed her talent for orchestration, piano and opera, collaborating with other singers (Nuria Rial, Zhanna, Miki Mori and Claudia Schnieder).
In 2006, she starts her first solo project in electro music under her own name Nadia Sohaei: "Talking to Myself", which in germany made her one of the best unsigned artists.
In 2007, Nik Wejedal became part of the project, with additional voices, co-writing some of the lyrics, visual design and on live keyboards.
In 2008, Nadia Sohaei signs with Decadance Records.
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