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![Watch Better Not (feat. Wafia) [Vertical Video] music video by Louis The Child](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video114/v4/30/10/3d/30103d89-bc10-71e5-6b50-97530a332fc4/18UMGIM27214.crop.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Better Not (feat. Wafia) [Vertical Video] music video by Louis The Child")
![Watch Leave (Get Out) [feat. Wafia] [triple j Like A Version] music video by Taku](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video123/v4/9c/39/9c/9c399c5d-77ec-fa0a-3961-3f504dcf6bfc/195081079240_1_1.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Leave (Get Out) [feat. Wafia] [triple j Like A Version] music video by Taku")
About Wafia
Artist Biography
With highly personal songs inspired by heartbreak and her Arab Muslim heritage, electro-pop singer-songwriter Wafia represents for seldom-heard voices on the international pop scene.
• Born in the Netherlands to a Syrian mother and Iraqi father, Wafia Al-Rikabi moved to Australia with her family as a child. Though she was planning on a career in medicine, Wafia started writing songs during her second year of college to “escape the monotony.”
• She emerged in 2014 with a lean electro-pop cover of Mario’s 2004 smash “Let Me Love You.”
• Her 2015 EP XXIX included the song “Heartburn,” which superstar musician and producer Pharrell Williams liked enough to play on his Beats1 radio show.
• In 2018, following two more EPs and a string of singles, Wafia was the featured vocalist on Los Angeles duo Louis The Child’s single “Better Not,” which reached the Top 20 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart in the US and went gold.
• Wafia moved to L.A. in March 2020 and released her fourth EP, Good Things, that August.
Hometown
The Netherlands
Genre
Electronic
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