Aziza Brahim

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Aziza Brahim during the screening of the film Wilaya , on which she participated as both actress and composer of the soundtrack (2012)

Aziza Brahim, Arabic عزيزة ابراهيم(Born June 9, 1976 in Tindūf Province , Algeria ) is a Sahrawi singer and actress.

Life

Youth in the refugee camp

Aziza Brahim was born on June 9, 1976 in a Sahrawi refugee camp in the province of Tindūf in western Algeria. Brahim's mother fled there a year earlier after Moroccan troops occupied Western Sahara. Brahim's father stayed in El Aaiun , where he later died, and because of the conflict in Western Sahara never met his daughter.

Brahim grew up under the difficult conditions of the refugee camp and enjoyed music and acting in her youth in order to escape everyday life in the camp. At the age of eleven, Brahim received a scholarship for school education in Cuba. She applied for musical training, but was turned down. For this reason, she came back to the refugee camp in western Algeria in 1995.

Musical career

After her return, Brahim performed at the first national singing competition as part of the national cultural festival of the Sahara Democratic Arab Republic. She then became part of the national Sahrawi music group that toured Mauritania and Algeria. She later toured with various other groups, including Leyoad, through central and southern Europe. In 1999 Brahim recorded the first songs together with Touareg musicians on the Sahrawi national radio.

Aziza Brahim at the WOMEX Festival 2015 in Budapest

In 2007 Brahim founded the band Gulili Mankoo , consisting of musicians from Western Sahara, Spain, Colombia and Senegal. The group's musical style was characterized by a mix of traditional West African music as well as typical blues and rock. In 2008 the group recorded their first EP titled Mi Canto . Since 2009 Brahim toured regularly with the Basque Txalaparta group Oreka Tx through Spain and France.

Brahim first appeared as an actress in 2011. She starred in the Spanish film Wilaya , for which she also composed and produced the soundtrack.

In 2012 Brahim released her first LP with the title Mabruk . In 2014 Brahim recorded another album called Soutak , which featured numerous different musicians from Barcelona and Mali. In 2016 she released an album entitled Abbar el Hamada , on which she celebrated the suffering of the Sahrawi people.

Private

Brahim now lives in Spain, is married and has a daughter.

Discography

  • 2008 Wed Canto
  • 2011 Wilaya
  • 2012 Mabruk
  • 2014 Soutak
  • 2016 Abbar el Hamada
  • 2019 Sahari

Web links

Commons : Aziza Brahim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Aziza Brahim (Western Sahara). (No longer available online.) In: Freemuse. December 7, 2008, archived from the original on November 28, 2016 ; accessed on November 27, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / freemuse.org
  2. ↑ a b Carsten Beyer: Songs for a forgotten people. In: key. Deutschlandradio Kultur, March 3, 2016, accessed on November 27, 2016 .
  3. ↑ AZIZA BRAHIM. In: Treibhaus.at. 2014, accessed November 27, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Richard Marcus: The Agony of Uprooting. In: Qantara.de. March 7, 2016, accessed November 27, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Brahim, Aziza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sahrawi singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Tindūf Province , Algeria