Top 10 Interesting facts about Nora En Pure

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Top 10 Interesting Facts about Nora En Pure

Daniela Di Lillo who was formerly known as Niederer was born on 20 July 1990. Daniela better known by her stage name Nora En Pure is a Swiss-South African DJ and deep house producer.

She first received recognition for her 2013 single “Come With Me”. Further popular releases are “Morning Dew”, “Lake Arrowhead”, and “Tears In Your Eyes.” In July 2016, she was invited to put together a two-hour long mix for Pete Tong’s radio show: “BBC’s Essential Mix”. In the article are the top ten interesting facts about Nora En Pure.

1. En Pure was born in South Africa

Nora en Pure was born to a South African mother and a Swiss father in Johannesburg. Di Lillo then migrated to Switzerland during her infancy. Raised in a musical environment, she learned to play musical instruments in childhood.

So, music has been her career since her childhood. Before engaging in the electronic music scene, she used to listen to other musical genres including classical music, pop, and rock.

2. Nora En Pure is an outdoors enthusiast

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Being an outdoors enthusiast, Nora En Pure finds the most creative inspiration in nature and travels resulting in organic and nature-infused productions and sets. Weaving her influences of South African roots with her love for classical music and soundtracks.

Her tracks often paint a certain scenery combining tribal percussion with traditional Western instrumentation, creating emotional melodies and harmonies with piano, strings, wind instruments, and synthesizers.

3. Nora is part of the Helvetic Nerds in Switzerland

Being part of the Helvetic Nerds in Switzerland, Nora En Pure has a long-year studio and label partnership with Enormous Tunes label owner Christian Hirt.

Through the long-term collaboration, they developed a characteristic sound that is well recognizable, and distinct and sets the electronic act apart from general dance music.

4. She is among the first artists to venture into melodic and Organic house sound

Nora En Pure was one of the first artists of her kind of melodic and organic deep house sound when this genre gained popularity. This is the reason why she finds the most creative inspiration in nature and travels resulting in organic and nature-infused productions and sets.

However, the productions and live sets always remained unique connecting dots between different and disparate sounds, styles, and scenes with ease and in her raw style setting her apart from the mainstream.

5. Saltwater was Nora En Pure’s first single

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Her first steps into the global scene started with the single “Saltwater” which contains elements of “True” by Spandau Ballet and was included in the 2012 compilation by Buddha Bar.

True, “True” is a song by English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released on 15 April 1983 as the title track and third single from their third studio album. The song was written by the band’s guitarist/songwriter Gary Kemp.

The song was an attempt for Gary Kemp to express his feelings for Altered Images lead singer Clare Grogan and was musically influenced by the songs of Marvin Gaye and Al Green that he was listening to at the time.

6. Come With Me En Pure’s 2013 single was top 100 in Beatport’s download

Beatport is an American electronic music-oriented online music store owned by LiveStyle. The company is based in Denver, Los Angeles, and Berlin. Beatport is oriented primarily towards DJs, selling full songs as well as resources that can be used for remixes. The single Come with me remained in the Top 100 of Beatport’s download list for more than seven months.

7. Nora En Pure gained international recognition by touring

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So, it’s because of her love for traveling that Nora gained fame and international recognition. She gained international recognition by touring, with appearances at Coachella Festival on the Yuma stage. Yuma stage hosts the best artists of deep house and techno music.

8. She was alongside famous Deejays such as Joris Voorn in Tomorrowland

Tomorrowland is a Belgian electronic dance music festival held in Boom, Flanders, since 2005. Nora En Pure was among the famous Deejays who attended the theme “Daybreak” of Tomorrowland.

Joris Voorn was one of the Deejays who attended the festival with Naora En Pure. Joris Voorn for those who are not familiar with him is a Dutch DJ and record producer who lives in Amsterdam. Voorn is the co-owner of the Amsterdam-based labels Rejected (with Edwin Oosterwal) and Green.

9. Nora released an extended play titled Conquer Yosemite in 2017

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Conquer Yosemite is a nine-rack extended play released by Nora En Pure on 10 February 2017. The track is forty-one minutes long. Currently, the rack has approximately, 1413 fans who have listened to it.

The individual tracks in the play include; Diving with Whales (03:26), Caught in the Act (02:46), Make Me Love You (03:23), Freedom Lives Within(04:02), Diving with Whales: Diving with Whales (Extended Mix) (05:46), Caught in the Act: Caught in the Act (Original Club Mix) (05:42)

Other tracks are; Make Me Love You: Make Me Love You (Original Club Mix) (05:17), Freedom Lives Within Freedom Lives Within (Original Club Mix) (07:18), Freedom Lives Within Freedom Lives Within (Chillout Texture)

10. Nora plays a whole catalog of EPs and remixes for famous artists

Nora plays EPs and remixes by artists like; Faithless, an English electronic band formed by Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss, and Rollo Wretch 32, a British rapper, singer, and songwriter from Tottenham, North London, Klingande, a French DJ and tropical house producer with prominent use of the piano and the saxophone, Oliver Heldens, a pioneer of the future house genre Paul Harris, and his side project Dirty Vegas.