Nura Habib Omer (Arabic: نورا حبيب عمر, born 24 December 1988 in Kuwait, State of Kuwait) is an Eritrean German rapper, singer, author, and actress. Biography: Nura is an Eritrean citizen; she was born in Kuwait. Her mother, an Eritrean, was married off at the age of 15 to her father, a Saudi. At the age of three, Nura came to Germany as a refugee with her mother and her three siblings, where she grew up in Wuppertal. Due to family conflicts, she lived at times in a residential facility for young people. At the age of 18, she moved to Berlin. She dropped out of training as a social assistant. In Berlin, she gained band and stage experience as a dancer with The toten Crackhuren im Kofferraum (TCHIK) and with the Berliner Kneipenchor. Together with the rapper Juju, she founded the duo SXTN in 2014, with which she had her first chart successes. For their single “Von Party zu Party,” the duo SXTN received a gold record. In 2018, Nura also won the Live Entertainment Award for Best Club Tour 2017 together with Juju. In November 2018, the breakup of SXTN was announced. From then on, Nura performed as a solo artist. Her first chart placement as a lead singer came in spring 2018 with the song “babebabe,” which she recorded together with the hip-hop duo SAM; it reached number 71 in the German single charts. The follow-up single “Chaya” (feat. Trettmann) rose to number 33 in October 2018. On March 29, 2019, her first solo album (Habibi) was released, on which she not only raps but also increasingly sings. In addition to the two single releases, it also includes the song “babe,” in which Nura samples the song “Dashiki” by SAM and commemorates the deceased band member and friend Samson Wieland. Habibi was able to place at number 14 in the album charts. In 2019, Nura performed at festivals such as the Summerjam, the Happiness Festival, and the Openair Frauenfeld. As an actress, she made her screen debut in 2012 in the film The Passenger by Tor Iben, which premiered at the Max Ophüls Festival in 2012, in a supporting role. This was followed in 2015 by the film Der Nachtmahr, in 2018 in Detlev Buck’s film Asphaltgorillas, and in 2019 in the TV series jerks. with further supporting roles. In the Die Discounter, first broadcast on December 17, 2021, she plays one of the main roles as the cashier Flora. In the Kacken an der Havel released in February 2026, she has a guest appearance. Nura advocates for the rights of the LGBTQ community and was the face of the Christopher Street Day Berlin in 2018. She also performed in the same year at a solidarity concert on the occasion of the far-right riots in Chemnitz. Before the 2021 federal election, she also appeared at a demonstration of Fridays for Future in Berlin. In 2020, she published her autobiography together with the music journalist Jan Wehn under the title Weißt du, was ich meine? Vom Asylheim in die Charts. In it, she addresses her childhood in the field of tension between Eritrean and German culture and conflicts with Islamic ideas of how she should behave as a woman. In 2021, Nura took part together with Johannes Oerding, DJ BoBo, Stefanie Heinzmann, Gentleman, Ian Hooper, and Joris in the Vox show Sing meinen Song. In 2023, she took part in the show Das Duell um die Welt – Team Joko gegen Team Klaas. A few hours after the terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel in 2023, Nura shared on Instagram a screenshot from her music video for the single “Fubu,” which had been released a few days earlier, showing her with her crew in front of a poster with the words “Free Palestine,” which drew criticism. Both the post and the music video were deleted by Nura. ProSieben disinvited Nura from the show Late Night Berlin after the incident. Immediately after her posting, Nura was asked for a statement by the Akademie für Populäre Musik, which organizes the music prize Polyton held for the first time in November 2023. Since then, Nura’s membership in the academy has been suspended. The Polyton is considered a successor award to the Echo and is implemented by Initiative Musik. At a concert in Hamburg, Nura stated that she is not for war, but for minorities. In 2026, Nura was sentenced to pay a four-figure sum in damages to the conservative influencer Meltem Seker because she had insulted her in a post as “F*tze.”