Bold Quote by Yasmine Hamdan

“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.” quote by Yasmine Hamdan — Download Open image

“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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Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution.

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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.

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It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute,…

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I'm bored, normally, when I travel.

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Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to…

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Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to.

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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.

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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…

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With Soapkills, we were lucky. We started at a time of transition where things were not ready, nothing was available.

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I studied psychology at university.

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Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush and Radiohead - and I loved Chet Baker, Etna James, a lot of singers and a lot of bands.

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The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic.

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