The Silver Spring Penguin

Updated Apr 26, 2007, at 9:30 p.m.

It’s doubtful that 20-year-old Nubia Dickerson (above) would remember the spandex shorts, flat-top fades and Dwayne Wayne sunglasses of old-school go-go. But the JFK High alum has a good time resurrecting those rump-shaking beats and infusing them with serious soul.

In “I Feel the Beat,” Dickerson channels EU and Digital Underground, and tears it up with chops on scale with Christina Aguilera. The track’s “Grown and Saxy” remix is seasoned with a pinch of Ethiopian jazz, perhaps as a nod to part of Dickerson’s heritage. (Her mother, who works for World Space satellite radio on Georgia Avenue, is originally from Ethiopia. Her father is African American.)

Dickerson’s album, “Let Me Introduce Myself,” drops this June. However, the William and Mary sophomore says school — and evidently, self-preservation — are her priorities.

“My family would kick my behind if I didn’t finish school,” she said in an interview with the college’s newspaper.

Hear a sample of “I Feel the Beat” and learn more about Nubia Dickerson from her CD Baby website.