Wafia

Wafia Al-Rikabi merges brooding EDM and warmer pop with a heartfelt delivery as Wafia. After debuting with the EP XXIX in 2015, she had a dalliance with Atlantic, which released her fourth EP, 2020's optimistic Good Things. Her Nettwerk-issued debut album, the Sabrina Claudio-produced Promised Land, followed in 2025. A deeply personal record, it touched on her experiences with being unhoused, facing Islamophobia, and with relationships in the 2020s. A Netherlands-born, L.A.-based musician of Arab descent that inspires some of her music, Wafia had an intercontinental upbringin...