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Nadia Ahmed (born 15 June 2000), known professionally as Nxdia, is an 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 in August 2025 it had amassed over 100 million streams on Spotify. Their music makes regular use of Arabic and English lyrics.
In 2020, they began uploading content to TikTok, including music and discussion of race; by September 2022, they had over 700,000 subscribers on the platform. They released a single, "Ouch!", in 2021, about disappointment with being upset with a friend, followed by the single "Get Between It", released later that year. They released "IDC" in 2023, followed by an EP In the Flesh that August, which dealt with overthinking; 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". They began uploading snippets of the song to TikTok in November 2023 and released the track in January 2024; DIY described the track as a "queer anthem", 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.
Ahmed told NME in March 2024 that their sound had been inspired by the likes of Paramore, My Chemical Romance, and Simple Plan, and that they took further inspiration from Marina Diamandis's "weirdly operatic" voice and from the bilingualism of Stromae, specifically finding the latter's androgynous appearance in the music video "Tous les mêmes" helpful in discovering their own identity. In an interview with Dork the following month, they cited Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Stromae, and My Chemical Romance for their "big choruses, catchy but often sad lyrics, and driving guitar parts".
Ahmed's music constitutes alt-pop, alternates between English and Arabic, and includes regular vocal runs. They told NME that they sung in Arabic to share the language, as they had previously only used the language to converse with their mother. Ahmed is a member of Loud LDN, a collective of London-based women and genderqueer musicians founded in May 2022.
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