Tag: Yasmine Hamdan
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‘Al Jamilat’ is not just feminist. It’s an album with songs that feature women: women who are in love, rebellious women, political activists, women who are more submissive, women who are in charge.
Yasmine Hamdan
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When I imagine feminine characters in my songs, they’re often bold, strong, passionate, militant, witty, sensual, dangerous. I see those characters as skillful witnesses, figures of change and awakening.
Yasmine Hamdan
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You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.
Yasmine Hamdan
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It’s interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It’s a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna’s producer and a record label that is extremely mainstream – it was interesting.
Yasmine Hamdan
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The Arab world is mediatised in a way that gives too much space to these people – puritans, extremists, whatever you want to call them. There are a lot more people like me in the Middle East than you might think.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I’ve always fought any form of censorship.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I had the urge to face my own limitation, and I needed to be bigger. I needed to be more professional and be in a more competitive environment because I wanted to grow as an artist. That’s why I went to Europe.
Yasmine Hamdan
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World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in Arabic, no matter what your style of music or artistic proposition is, you are faced with some of that reality.
Yasmine Hamdan
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Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can’t have a healthy evolution.
Yasmine Hamdan