Biography
Nina Morena, a Detroit native, migrated into the independent scene in 2003. Her love of deep house, hip hop and soul music moved her to contribute to the progressive community within the borders of Detroit. Since then, she has become known by her various contributions across the independent community in cities from coast to coast.
Nina’s passion for underground music moved her to join forces with the Atlantabased, Digital DJs as the site administrator and editor. As a team, the Digital Djs were known as the cornerstone of the independent music scene meeting technology. This lead to Underground Fusion and The Reactor, two on-going Internet based radio stations that hosted independent music and podcasts from around the globe.
In April of 2005, Nina developed, produced and edited Deep Soul Sessions, a house music podcast. This show became synonymous with the deep sensual side of house. Her podcasts could be heard live on London’s Warrior FM along with the Digital Djs Sunday Night Underground Fusion line up. The show became syndicated on RadioFreeDetroit.com, Swiss Groove Radio and various podcast syndicated stations.
In July of 2005, Nina joined the Urban Organic Festival (Detroit) planning committee, which bought in such artists as Grammy Nominated Gordon Chambers and Leela James. This two-day festival included the Unplugged: The Digital DJs Katrina Survivors Block Party, which led to several carloads of items donated by local citizens for the Katrina Survivors in the area.
Four of the Urban Organic planning committee members decided to create a forward thinking lifestyle planning core called The Soul Divas. Known as the “Deadly Diva”, Nina focused on getting the job done without any questions asked. The Soul Divas intent was to bring “parties with a purpose” to the Detroit Area. As a promotions committee, the Soul Divas showcased various couture settings and party planning ideas for travel within a niche market.
In September of 2006, Nina joined the Fusicology.com crew as the site administrator, technology project manager and co-city representative for Detroit. Since she has come on board, Fusicology has made several technological leaps toward the progression of a fully automated website. The commitment to technology has lead Nina to scale back on her podcasts and focus on her technology contribution to the progressive communities in over 19 cities.
Nina has since then, presented the “Song of the Year” at the Soul Tracks Music Awards and joined the I Got Soul Committee in 2007. She has contributed to projects with artists/entities such as, KissnGrind (LA), Vikter Duplaix, Russell Taylor, DEEP (LA), Wet (LA), Monica Blaire, Carmen Rogers, Yahzarah and various label promoted campaigns for various artist within the independent scene.
2008 included appearances at the I Got Soul Conference as a moderator and committee member, presenting sponsor of the Soul Tracks Awards and the re-launching of Deep Soul Sessions powered by Imeem.com and Fusicology.com. During the Spring/Summer season, Nina joined the owner of Fusicology, Asya Shein as an official owner of the progressive brand. Their mantra has always been to provide forward thinking progressive music enthusiast with a brand of music and events that usually go against the commercial grain.
2009 offers amazing possibilities, please stay tuned. Look for appearances at the Web 2.0 conference in the Bay Area and/or NYC along with various industry conference appearances.
For more information on Nina, please contact ninamorena@gmail.com.
