Ida Nielsen & The Funkbots

Den danska basisten, kompositören och multiinstrumentalisten Ida Nielsen har kompat PRINCE i både The New Power Generation (2010-2013) och 3rdeyegirl (2013-2016).
Ida beskriver samarbetet med PRINCE som “en enorm gåva och den mest magiska musikaliska resa hon någonsin varit med om”.
I Idas egna projekt är basen i fokus, med en blandning av old school funk, hiphop och reaggae.
Denna kväll är det dansgolv som gäller, det kommer vara svårt att stå still.
Som Ida själv säger – You can’t fake the funk!!

Ida Nielsen has released her sixth album, ”More Sauce, Please!”, on German Leopard Records on June 16th 2023.

The audaciously funky andmulti-talented Danish bassist-singer-songwriter-bandleader Ida Nielsen, a former member of two of Prince’s backing bands — New Power Generation and thefour-piece rock-edged 3rd Eye Girl — is set to release her sixth album as a leaderoverall and fourth since the passing of her former mentor in April 2016.Playing her signature 4-string Sandberg California electric bass with typicalauthority while fronting all the vocals and also supplying multiple keyboardparts, Nielsen combines slamming funk beats, slap bass virtuosity, agilerapping, catchy pop hooks and tons of attitude on More Sauce, Please!‍

Ida was voted amongst the top 10 bass players in the world.

Line up:
Ida Nielsen -bass, lead vocal
Andiondu Joel Philip (Kuku) Agami -rap
Oliver Engqvist – guitar, vocals
Jens Michael Østergaard (Unge Jens) -Drums