Nostalgix On Women’s History Month And Her Supah Fly Tour

When it comes to high-energy, electric and fun house music, Nostalgix is the woman to look to. The producer, writer and rapper, legally known as Negar Hamidzadeh, is signed on renowned imprints such as AC Slater’s Night Bass, Tchami’s CONFESSION, Insomniac Records and Thrive Music. The tastemaker was even hand-selected by BIJOU to be the premier on his DND Records. Recently, the artist finished her debut tour, Supah Fly, which boasted the distinct performance she has showcased at music festivals and concerts.

“You’re getting everything I’ve worked up to until now, all the new music,” she says. “I’m also teasing a lot of new songs that I’ve made that aren’t out yet. It’s just really the evolution of Nostalgix on this tour. It’s my first headline tour, which is really exciting because I’ve never done something like this before. I feel like it’s such a big milestone as an artist.”

In light of Women’s History Month, Hamidzadeh says: “[It’s] a very special time of the year because I think it’s really important to celebrate women and strong women that are really carving their own path and being an inspiration to others and lifting other women up. Being a woman born in Iran, coming from a place where you don’t really have rights, you’re not really seen, you don’t have opportunities. For me, I think [Women’s History Month] is such an important time of the year because I believe that women should really be celebrated, lifted up and seen for what they’re doing.”

Some women who have helped lift her up include Whipped Cream and Jessica Audiffred.

For Whipped Cream, the producer, writer and rapper says the bass music artist also lived in Vancouver when she lived there.

“She’s such a wise human, and I feel like everything she said to me really hit at the right time,” Hamidzadeh says. “It was like she said things that I needed to hear at that time. I think that she’s such a strong woman that really knows what she wants and she goes after it. She doesn’t take, and I feel like seeing that…hearing her words, it’s very inspiring.

As for Audiffred, she’s been a “supportive friend” to Hamidzadeh.

“It’s nice to really have other women in this space that see what you’re doing, even though we make different styles of music, to meet someone and immediately match each other’s energy and be excited and supporting each other.”

When it comes to using her platform to uplift other women, the Iranian-born producer says: “I would say I try to help women as much as I can, whether it is helping them give them advice, whether it’s putting them on playlists whenever I can. I try to be there for other women.”

She believes, “there are a lot of incredible women that have been paving the way and inspiring other women to show what’s possible in this world.” As for new women entering the scene, she thinks there are more women to look up to now since it is becoming a less male-dominated industry.

However, Hamidzadeh says she has been underestimated, treated like an underdog—no matter how hard she was working—and she wasn’t given the same amount of attention that men in the room were getting, thus causing her to feel the way to prove herself. She says she has focused on honing her craft and staying focused on what she’s doing as a result.

For the woman who she is inspired by most in her life, it is her mother.

“She is the kindest human I know,” Hamidzadeh says. “She’s really taught me to be loving and to be kind to everyone I come across….She’s someone that inspires me daily because she has so much patience and so much love to give that every time I see her I’m like, ‘How do you do it?’ I want to be just like that, and I want to give that much love. I want to be that kind to literally everybody, and it’s just who she is. I think it’s very inspiring. No matter what, she’s so loving to everybody.”