Nabalüm grew up in Abidjan, where she began singing as a child, imitating the voices she heard on the radio and inventing her own tunes.

Completely self-taught, she learned by playing in live-music bars in the Cote D’Ivoire capital. Her deep, velvety, and emotionally generous voice quickly got her noticed, beginning at the age of 19, through local singing competitions.

Nabalüm draws inspiration from the greatest African artists – Ismaël Lô from Senegal, Fatoumata Diawara from Mali or Lokua Kanza from Congo – and singers from the international pop scene, such as Adele or Bruno Mars.

Nabalüm released her first EP, which bears her name, in 2016. Under the label La cour du Naaba label, created by her mentor, the Burkinabe singer Alif Naba, this EP included the songs "M'yamê", "Wili", "Pag Nitam", as well as an acoustic version of "Wili" and an instrumental version of "M'yamê".

Very attached to her roots, the performer writes songs that describe the life of African youth, discuss the condition of women in Africa or social realities on the Continent.

Nabalüm also draws inspiration from her experience and personal experiences. She defines her musical style as Afro-soul in Burkinabe colours.

In 2018, she is working on her first album, entitled Saké.

Nabalüm is an international artist: “I dream of playing wherever music can take me, whether that be Paris, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Rwanda, all over the world, because I want to see the world, I want to be a citizen of the world, I want to fly,” she said in October 2017 in an interview on Onlyfrenchtv.

She enchants that international audience by singing in several languages: Mooré, her mother tongue, Malinké, French and sometimes English. Despite all this, her preferred language remains Mooré, for the depth she feels it brings to her texts.

In 2017, Nabalüm received the Kundé award for best debut at the Kundés d'or ceremony in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.