Lie Ning

Soul-Pop

Lie Ning is photographed from a low angle against a black background. He is holding both hands to his head and looking to the left. He is wearing black clothing.
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LIE NING is a musician, model, dancer & art director, and a spokesperson for the LGBTQ & POC communities, with his voice being the strongest form of expression, and himself an audio-visual expression in person. LIE NING's lapel already boasts an ANCHOR AWARD nomination (RBF 2021), critically acclaimed performances at SXSW and Reeperbahn Festival, as well as support for Milky Chance, Giant Rooks, Ă„TNA & Raphael Saadiq, brand collaborations with Paco Rabanne, Dom PĂ©rignon & Tommy Hilfiger, and a spot on the NMA Hotlist 2022. With his EP 'traffic songs for the inbetweens', the young Berliner delivers a debut of impressive maturity, surprising depth, and international caliber. Continuing to balance and sporadically belong to indie, soul, and R&B, LIE NING creates worldly pop moments and emotionally powerful images of dreamy expansiveness and bitterly serious form. His debut album 'utopia', produced by Grammy-winning producer Stephen Fitzmaurice (Sam Smith, Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige), is set to be released in spring 2023 on Humming Records.

LIE NING is many things. Especially as a musician. Especially in public perception. But what defines a person? How many facets? How many faces? Is character shaped by society, or does character shape society? Is everything conditional, and if so, who is the individual in this complex equation? Where do they stand? Where do I stand, and for whom? Who is LIE NING?

LIE NING was born in the mid-nineties into the artistic bohemia of Prenzlauer Berg. Into the utopia of a housing project where he grows up with his single mother, which from an early age exposes him to an immense variety of languages, images, cultures, melodies, stories, and personalities, making him receptive to all the beauty that this unusual family brings to light. A wholesome bubble that unites all forms of art into a collective expression. Just as every house, every social group, every melody is built on a seemingly secure foundation made up of various core components, so it is with people. Who am I? Who am I today, who will I be tomorrow, who was I yesterday and what did I have to do to become that? Who am I to myself, how does the world see me? For whom am I someone? Who defines success?

"Utopia" allows for an initial immersion into the persona of LIE NING. One of many versions of a person, yet always the same. Guided by velvety vocals and a captivatingly intimate intensity, LIE NING leads with ruthless openness to the place of deepest emotional vulnerability & the mirror of oneself. Dream and reality, desire and compulsion, longing and realization, external and internal perception. Resonance and dissonance.