She is 25 years old and perfectly embodies her generation that flees over the too reducing boxes. Nilusi goes from music to the cinema from a snap of fingers and still finds time to manage his own label and his production company. Projected under the ramp fires in 2015 with the Kids United while she was still a teenager, the young Franco-Sri Lankaise then embarked on a solo career by choosing independence. One way for her to free herself from the constraints of the music industry, to be able to enjoy total freedom in terms of artistic creation.
Since then, she has not been unemployed. After two EPs released in 2020 and a film she made, produced and in which she camps the main character, Nilusi will defend her first album “Letter to the Universe” on the Spotlight Stage Wednesday. The opus of 16 titles mixes melancholic pop, Jazzy tempo and oriental sounds in the service of rather intimate texts. On a piano or a dry guitar, the artist sings doubts, heart sorrows, healing, in an aspired voice that matches quite well with the subject.
If, on paper, his show promises to be quieter than that of Genezio, Nilusi could well surprise with certain songs including “Tereketena” or “Boru Kata”. Spoiler: The Songhale passages will make you bequeath.
