Nxdia

Nadia Ahmed (born 15 June 2000), known professionally as Nxdia, is an Egyptian-British alt-pop musician. Born in Heliopolis in Egypt, they moved to Manchester in England aged eight and began producing their own music after winning a Levis competition and taking a course taught by Everything Everything.

Nxdia released the EP In the Flesh (2023); the single "She Likes a Boy" charted at No. 74 on the UK Singles Sales Chart. Nxdia next released their debut LP I Promise No One's Watching in June 2025 and by August it had amassed over 100 million streams on Spotify. Their music makes regular use of Arabic and English lyrics.

Life and career Nadia Ahmed was born in Cairo and grew up next to Roxy Cinema in Heliopolis. Their grandfather is of Sudanese descent. Their father listened to AC/DC and their mother listened to traditional Arabic acts such as Umm Kulthum, Their first song was a whimsical track about Hawaii, which they had not yet been to; by nine, their tracks were about identity and self-perception. about disappointment with being upset with a friend, They released "IDC" in 2023, the latter's focus track, "Decay", was written about the 2021–present United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis. After discovering old diary pages which detailed their teenage infatuation for a girl and their disappointment at finding that she was attracted to a boy, they wrote "She Likes a Boy", which made reference to Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream". and the following month the track spent a week at No. 74 on the UK Singles Sales Chart. A subsequent track, "Jennifer's Body", described their experience of a toxic relationship, and took its name from the Megan Fox film of the same name on the grounds that watching the film helped them frame their thoughts. They also noted in a July 2023 interview with 15questions.net that they also listened to Babymetal and Jon Bellion around this time. a collective of London-based women and genderqueer musicians founded in May 2022.

Discography Albums I Promise No One's Watching (2025)

EPs In the Flesh (2023) Lovemesick (2026)

Singles "Eyes on Me" (2020) "Burst (Like a Bubble)" (2020) "Get Between It" (2021) "Ouch" (2021) "What's It Like" (2023) "Dopamine" (2023) "IDC" (2023) "She Likes a Boy" (2024) "Jennifer's Body" (2024) "Feel Anything" (2024) "Boy Clothes" (2025) "More!" (2025) "Cool" (2026)