On the picture-perfect fall afternoon of Thursday, October 11, Karina Nistal has a busy 24 hours ahead of her. The Houston rapper and singer, Best Local Rap/Hip-Hop winner at this year’s Houston Press Music Awards on the strength of 2006 LP Nistyle, and her band Rebel Crew are about to embark on a three-week Armed Forces Entertainment-sponsored tour of U.S. military installations in six countries: Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Djibouti. They depart Bush Intercontinental Airport at 10 a.m. tomorrow, and Nistal just got all the necessary passports and paperwork from the Pentagon yesterday.
“I told myself at the beginning of the year, ‘I’m going on tour this year,’ and even though it’s not my first choice of destinations, we’re still going on tour,” she says over a quick bite at Midtown coffee shop Stir-It-Up. “I’m doing it for me, but not completely for me. It’s bigger than me, it’s bigger than the band and bigger than anything I’ve ever done…..”(Chris Gray, Dec.6,2007)
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