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Short Bio

Nessi Gomes is a British-Portuguese songwriter born on the island of Guernsey. Her music doesn’t try to lift you above life. It walks you straight into it. She writes with a quiet intensity, where beauty sits beside fear, where longing doesn’t ask to be solved, and where the darker corners are given air, not shame.

There are flecks of her Portuguese roots in the way she moves through feeling, the ache, the longing, the stubborn hope, but nothing about her is performance. She writes to know herself. She sings to stay honest. Music became the space where she could exist on her own terms, after years of feeling caught between cultures and never quite 'fitting' anywhere else.

Her debut album Diamonds & Demons opened a door. Since then, she has shared her work internationally, in rooms big and small, always choosing presence over polish, truth over pretence.

Nessi is currently writing her second album, leaning deeper into shadow, tenderness, and the quiet courage it takes to stay open in a hardening world.

Long Bio

Nessi Gomes is a songwriter shaped by edges, cultural edges, emotional edges, the places inside us that don’t clean up easily. Born to Madeiran parents in Guernsey, she grew up between languages, between islands, between identities. Maybe that’s why her work sits in the in-between - not folk, not pop, not confessional, not theatre, but something raw and unguarded, carried by a voice that doesn’t hide from itself.

Her songs lean into the dark, not for drama but for honesty. The grief, the doubt, the ache of trying to belong in your own life. She follows feeling where it goes, not where it’s supposed to go. And in doing so, she finds light that hasn’t been polished, only earned.

Her debut album, Diamonds & Demons, was born from upheaval and built with community support, a record of fragile hope and stubborn resistance. It quietly found its people, carrying her across continents and into rooms where listeners come not to escape, but to remember themselves.

Offstage, Nessi has spent the last decade working with the voice as a place to meet emotion and truth, influenced by her background in Creative Expressive Therapies and voice-based therapeutic work. It’s not performance training. It’s more like tending to the parts that don’t speak in sentences. Over the years, thousands have joined her workshops and retreats, not in search of perfection, but presence.

Now, she’s in a season of returning to the source, writing, unravelling, listening. New songs are taking shape, bruised and luminous, cracked-open and steady, refusing simple answers.

Nessi sings like someone trying to stay real in a world full of masks.

She writes for the ones who feel too much and keep going anyway.

Press Quotes

“Hauntingly atmospheric and lushly textured nods to Björk & Kate Bush.”
— Paul Lester, The Guardian

“A record that is at once lustrous and shadowy, mysterious and magical, an exercise in shaping beauty out of despair.”
— Alex Goddard, Music Week

“Stunning debut from a composer and lyricist of rare invention and beauty.”
— Alex Gallacher, Folk Radio UK

“The followers of Beth Gibbons, Joanna Newsom and the excellent Daughter will find themselves becoming fans of Gomes.”
— Songwriting (Songwriters) Magazine

“A slick contemporary singer-songwriter record with a subtle Fado aesthetic and Sam Lee on the title track.”
— fRoots

“Completely engulfing and enthralling. The minutes seem to melt away while listening. Candidly moving debut album.”
— R2 Magazine

Milestones & Highlights

The total number of plays/streams across different platforms is around 75 million

Debut album Diamonds & Demons released Oct 2016

$50,000+ crowdfunding campaign for debut album

Performed in 30+ countries across Europe, Asia, North America & Central America

Featured on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music

Founder of Vocal Odyssey - global voice retreats & online journeys

Thousands trained in her voice & self-expression method since 2014

Recorded collaborations & shared stages across folk, world, and contemporary alternative scenes, including work with Sam Lee, Ajeet, Peia, Danit, Mose, Ape Chimba, Zoë, Estas Tonne, Murray Kyle, Sam Garrett, Yael Deckelbaum, Nick Barbachano, Fia, and Ayla Nereo.

Currently writing and recording second album (2025)

Contact & Links

info@nessigomesmusic.com

Websites

www.nessigomesmusic.com

www.vocalodyssey.com

Social Media

www.instagram.com/nessigomesmusic

www.facebook.com/nessigomesmusic

www.youtube.com/@nessigomesmusic

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0XkaohuHZ6J8KcJWCdyAk8?si=yQq9gGFMS3GC02sc7jU0ww

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Nessi Gomes

Artist, Vocalist, Composer, Voice Facilitator, Guitarist

An international musician and group facilitator with a BA

(Hons) in Creative Expressive Therapies in Music (2007), and a certified

Holistic Voice Practitioner with The British Academy of Sound Therapy

(BAST) in Group Voice Therapy (2014).

Discography

Albums

Diamonds & Demons - Debut Album - 2016

Live in Toronto - 2018

Singles

Instrument of Peace - 2025

Song of the Stars - 2024

Morning Mirrors - 2024

My Love is Real - 2023

The Valley Below - 2022

Anaconda - 2022

Alive - 2022

As You Will - 2020

Novo Amanhecer - 2020

Featured Remixes

Morning Mirrors (DJ Kareeem) - 2024

All Related (Heartbeat Mix - Mose) - 2020

All Related (Fantastic Fungi Mix - Liquid Bloom) - 2020

These Walls (Nigel Butler) - 2016

Radio Plays

BBC 1, BBC 6, RADIO FOLK UK

Solo Gigs 2024

Iceland, Holland, Germany, UK & Ireland & Scotland Tour

Festivals 2024

Water Prayer Festival - Spain

Kayan Wellness Festival - Abu Dhabi, Emirates

Spirit Bali Festival - Indonesia

Surya Festival - Belgium

Gastein Yoga Festival - Austria

Conscious Gathering - Switzerland

Soul Revolution - Birmingham, UK

Natural High Festival - Finland

Sound of Veritas - Poland

Colours of Ostrava - Czech

Yoga and Sacred World Music Festival - Germany

No Mind Festival - Sweden

Xperience Festival - Germany

Yoga Del Mar Festival - Mallorca, Spain

Resonance Festival - Sweden

Vocal Odyssey Retreats 2024

10-day retreat - Amorgos, Greece - October 11-21

Solo Gigs 2023

Belgium, UK, Dublin, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Denmark,

Sweden, Norway, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, France,

Costa Rica

Festivals 2023

Solstice At The Mount - UK

Conscious Celebration - Germany

Yoga United Festival - Germany

Agape Zoe Festival - Corfu, Greece

Ecstatic Dance Festival - Holland

Colours of Ostrava - Czech

Wibracje Festival - Poland

All About Love - UK

Riomar Gathering - Turkey, Ancient Trance - Germany

Medicine Festival - UK

Ecstatic Devotion - Belgium

Love Jam - UK

Vocal Odyssey Retreats 2023

10-day retreat - Amorgos, Greece - April 29 - May 9

10-day retreat - Amorgos, Greece - October 9-19

Solo Gigs 2022

Norway, Germany, Holland, Israel, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ibiza

Festivals 2022

Everness Festival - Hungary

Medicine Festival - UK

All About Love - UK

Yoga United - Germany

The Good Vibration Society - UK

Shakti Dance Festival - Poland

Colibri Festival, Corfu - Greece

Open Air - Switzerland

Vocal Odyssey Retreats 2022

10-day retreat - Amorgos, Greece - October

Vocal Odyssey Retreats 2021

10-day retreat - Amorgos, Greece - September

10-day retreat - Amorgos, Greece - October

Festivals 2021

Medicine Festival - UK

Solo Gigs 2020

Germany, Switzerland

Vocal Odyssey Workshops 2020

Rhythmia - Costa Rica

Kiel - Germany

Solo Gigs 2019

USA, Germany, Switzerland, Israel

Vocal Odyssey Retreats/Workshops 2019

Amorgos - Greece

London - UK

Amsterdam - Holland

Munich - Germany

Solo Gigs 2018

Guernsey - Bicentenary Celebrations at St James

Australia - Byron, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Sydney, Gosford,

Melbourne, Alice Springs, Adelaide, Perth

Europe - Turkey, Greece, Belgium, Portugal, Holland, Poland, Czech,

Slovakia, Italy

South Africa - Cape Town

Vocal Odyssey Workshops/Retreats 2018

Australia - Byron Bay, Melbourne, Sydney, Alice Springs, Adelaide, Perth

Europe - Turkey, UK, Ibiza, Amsterdam

Herm - Channel Islands

Trnava - Slovakia

Festivals 2018

Splendour In The Grass Festival - Australia

Natural High Festival - Finland

Suntribe Festival - Belgium

Solo Gigs 2017

USA - Salt Lake City, Florida, Miami, San Francisco, New York, LA, Santa

Barbara, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver,

Canada - Toronto, Quebec

Europe - Holland, Portugal, UK,

Vocal Odyssey Workshops/Retreats 2017

Cornwall - UK

Denmark

Sweden

ItalySan Francisco

Festivals 2017

Sines - Festival Musica do Mundo - Portugal

Everness Festival - Hungary

Glastonbury - UK

Shambhala - UK

Solo Gigs 2016

Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Italy, the UK, Israel, Palestine, Costa Rica

Festivals 2016

Cambridge Folk Festival

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Recorded collaborations & shared stages across folk, world, and contemporary alternative scenes, including work with Ajeet, Peia, Danit, Mose, Ape Chimba, Zoë, Estas Tonne, Murray Kyle, Sam Garrett, Sam Lee, Yael Deckelbaum, Nick Barbachano, Fia, and Ayla Nereo.

- Awards - Best Unsigned Female Artist UK - 2016

- Indiegogo Crowd crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for Debut Album, UK,

In 2015, generating 50,000 USD.

- Music Video, These Walls, UK, 2016, supported by the GAC

- Founder of Vocal Odyssey - Holistic Voice Workshops (2014-Present)

- Hold My Hand’ featured on the Movie ‘Listen’ (2020), which won the movie of

the year in Portugal & Venice Film Festival, and was nominated for an Oscar

- All Related remix is featured in the OST of Fantastic Fungi.

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