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Marcia Evans, professionally known as Nia Orea, is a British Jamaican musician and music producer. Her musical style spans a range of styles within the Electronic and EDM genres, with flirtations into Trap, Pop, Future Bass and Hip Hop.

In her earlier years Nia Orea kicked off her music career by producing local Dancehall acts and produced a medley called ‘Push Start Riddim’, a successful Jamaican riddim which featured various Jamaican artists and was distributed via Def Jam Recordings digital. She then took a break to study audio engineering and re-emerged into the music scene with her independent release “Profiles” in 2013 on Bandcamp.

Nia Orea rose to popularity shortly after with “Profiles” landing a spot as beat tape of the week on Dead End Hip Hop. Her track “I Can” was released by Spinnup in 2014 and picked up by a few A&R representatives. She then followed up with a single called “Colours" which was listed in one of the top 10 DJ charts on Resident Advisor. This track was included into her 2018 second EP “Gifted” which was featured on the Medium (website) and The Gleaner in Jamaica which is the countries national news paper. “Colours” gained recognition on YouTube, Spotify and played by various radio stations including Pandora and IHeartRadio.

She also was a guest artist for native instruments native meet-up in London where she taught and deconstructed her music for fans. Further on in December 2018 Nia Orea released a single called “Budda” distributed by AWAL which was recognised by online music magazine EDM Joy. Then early 2019 Nia Orea released “Mythical” also distributed by AWAL which gained popularity and landed a spot on the top 25 songs on a sub Reddit page dedicated to future music. Nia Orea is also part of the EQL directory, powered by SoundGirls.

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