Tamara Montenegro, also known as NAOBA, pioneering sound artist, singer & DJ from Nicaragua who leads the organic downtempo, tribal and global bass scene in Centroamérica. She has for over a decade represented ancestral and multicultural music on the world stage.
NAOBA is the name of the ancient people of Ometepe island in the lake of Nicaragua who were mystic explorers of the cosmos through the interaction with nature and sacred ritual.
NAOBA researches and weaves the traditional sons, musics and ethnomusicality of latinamerican culture. The richness of the traditional latinamerican musicality, all combined with electronic elements as pivotal force to come into contact with the inner realms.
As a very creative prolific music producer with over 20+ Ep, singles and albums NAOBA’s electroethnic research combines a wide range of archeological and ancestral instrumentation of mesoamerica, as well as world rhythms and global bass in her unique style of productions.