Tag: Yasmine Hamdan
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When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me to become somebody: an artist who explores her different identities.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I wanted to pursue my own thing – I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.
Yasmine Hamdan
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When the public doesn’t understand me, it’s a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and sense, and I choose the right dialect to express that.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I follow my desires, and I’m prepared to take the consequences.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I set the bar very high. I’m very tough on myself.
Yasmine Hamdan
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A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It’s important to be able to propose new ways and new sounds without being stigmatised, censored or put aside.
Yasmine Hamdan
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Change means resistance, and resistance means transformation and igniting energies.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I don’t think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered.
Yasmine Hamdan
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For me, a taxi is like a public space because so many people get in that space.
Yasmine Hamdan
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When I started, I didn’t know how to sing in Arabic – it’s a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes and modes and quarter-tones.
Yasmine Hamdan