One of a kind! To di Wurl! One Wurl!
Lila Iké has all the mak­ings of a superstar—something she proved not long ago with her Gram­my appear­ance and at the Lost in Time Fes­ti­val in Kingston. At the same time, she remains more ground­ed than most artists in her field. She com­mands the full key­board of reg­gae styles with effort­less mas­tery. Long before she began con­quer­ing major stages with her dynam­ic live shows, she was already rock­ing sound sys­tem ses­sions like a sea­soned pro.
Those ses­sions shaped her just as pro­found­ly as the music of Gar­nett Silk and Lau­ryn Hill. Her excep­tion­al tal­ent did not go unno­ticed by her men­tor Pro­to­je, who wel­comed her into his Indig­gna­tion camp as ear­ly as 2017. Eight years lat­er, her acclaimed debut album “Trea­sure Self Love” earns a nom­i­na­tion for a Reg­gae Gram­my.
With­in the cir­cle sur­round­ing Protoje’s Habi­tat Stu­dio in the moun­tains above Kingston—her home base—the term “Wurl” (Jamaican patois for “world”) has long been used for any­thing con­nect­ed to Lila. Embrac­ing the nick­name, she turned it into a child­hood dream ful­filled. Togeth­er with Joshua Waters Rudge, singer of the Eng­lish band The Skints and an expe­ri­enced selec­tor, she found­ed Wurl Sound. After ses­sions in Jamaica, Eng­land, and Japan, the project is now tour­ing Ger­many for the very first time.

Up close & per­son­al!
Rid­dim Ses­sion #2 is all about break­ing down the dis­tance between artist and audi­ence, cre­at­ing an atmos­phere of gen­uine close­ness and con­nec­tion.
Han­dling the warm-up and after­par­ty jug­gling are Cologne’s top selec­tors DJ Densen, D‑One, and DJ Adirock.
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