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Nishla is a Manchester- based jazz singer/songwriter, currently working on a narrative song cycle produced by Opera North. Her other original project, the Nishla Smith Quintet will start the year with shows at NQ Jazz, The Vortex and Jazz Leeds.  In September 2017, ‘Cabaret’, her original commission for Manchester Collective, toured throughout the UK, featured at the PUSH Festival was performed live on BBC 3 In Tune. In 2018, after a visit home to play at MONA's Summer Jazz Festival in Tasmania, and a sell-out show at Melbourne’s Paris Cat, she became one of Manchester Jazz Festival's talent development artists, recording a debut EP which will be released later this year. After a summer residency at the Sage in Gateshead, she closed the year with shows at mjf, Lancaster Jazz Festival, Matt and Phred's, and Band on the Wall.