Other lesser known acts include a fairly new band from Australia called Violent Soho and the Nigerian-German soul singer Nneka Egbuna.

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Nneka from Nigeria was one of them.

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They included Nneka, who came from Nigeria to promote her new CD, "Concrete Jungle."

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"There's no amount of tears that will save you, " said Anthonia Nneka Nwabueze.

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"We're really pushing for a consumer's right to know what's in their water, " says Nneka Leiba, an environmental health researcher at the EWG.

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Born in Warri in the oil-rich Niger Delta to a Nigerian father and German mother, as a teen Ms. Egbuna, who performs as Nneka, relocated to study anthropology at the University of Hamburg.

WSJ: Nneka | Nigerian Provocateur | By Jim Fusilli