Nala Sinephro

From Brussels to Tottenham

Nala Sinephro was born in 1996 in Brussels and grew up on the edge of the city near the Sonian Forest. She is a Caribbean-Belgian composer, producer and musician who plays the pedal harp, modular synthesizer, keyboards, piano and violin. She went to an arts high school with a jazz department where she found the harp, spent a year at Berklee in Boston, dropped out and worked as a sound engineer, then moved to London, enrolled at a second jazz college and dropped out again. She has lived in Tottenham since 2018. During the COVID-19 pandemic she spent several months in Martinique, where she took up field recording. She came up alongside Shabaka Hutchings and Nubya Garcia, played regularly with the Steam Down collective, has worked with the London Contemporary Orchestra and has had an NTS Radio show since June 2020.

She wrote Space 1.8 in 2018 and 2019, recording harp and modular synthesizer parts at home and then recording with collaborators at the Pink Bird studio. Warp released it on September 3, 2021 (WARP324). Her second album, Endlessness (WARP358), followed on September 6, 2024, 45:19, with strings by the 21-player Orchestrate conducted by Rob Ames; it reached number 1 on the UK Jazz and Blues chart and shared the Libera Award for best jazz record in 2025. She scored A24's The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie), released on October 3, 2025. Setlist.fm has 24 setlists, among them Rewire in The Hague on April 4, 2025, Roskilde on July 4, 2025 and the Royal Festival Hall in London on November 7, 2025.