Tag: Yasmine Hamdan
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I have learned to create from a hybridized point of view. It’s an asset – something rather liberating.
Yasmine Hamdan
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My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I met Jim Jarmusch when I started recording my album ‘Ya Nass.’ He was writing the script for ‘Only Lovers Left Alive.’ Jarmusch was always a great inspiration to me, way before meeting him. Working with him was fantastic.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I sing in Arabic as a statement. It’s art, and it’s a challenge.
Yasmine Hamdan
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My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.
Yasmine Hamdan
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Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis, and you have Umm Kulthum.
Yasmine Hamdan
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My family played a part in bringing communism to Lebanon.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I sing ‘Beirut’ for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I love Khaliji music; it’s very inspiring.
Yasmine Hamdan
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When I go to Beirut, I don’t drive. It’s traumatizing to drive there.
Yasmine Hamdan