Nessi Gomes
Antwerp
- March 19, 2026 -
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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.​​​​​
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Practicals
March 19 , 2026
Zuiderpershuis, Waalsekaai 14, Antwerp
Concert @ 20h00 (doors open 19h30)
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Please bring a cushion to sit on if you bought such a tickets, we foresee chairs in the back.
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About Nessi Gomes
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.
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