When awarding her the prestigious Young Talent Award of the Royal Concertgebouw theater in Amsterdam in 2021, its general director Simon Reinink said, “Nai Barghouti is brimming with talent and has amazing presence as well as technical control. Her musicality is boundless. Whether she’s singing a jazz standard, an Arabic classical song or improvising on Bach, it’s effortless.”

In 2022, Nai debuted her critically acclaimed first album, Nai 1, a genre-defying, contemporary feat of passion, musicality, and vocal prowess.

Nai also loves to explore diverse genres of music. In 2023, she collaborated with the multiple grammy-award winning EDM artist Skrillex on their hit Xena to raving reviews in Rolling Stone, NME, Your EDM, Pitchfork, among others. In this song, Nai sings an old Palestinian folk wedding song to the electronic beats mastered by Skrillex to astonishing effect.