Yasmine Hamdan

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Yasmine Hamdan in concert in Carrière de Normandoux (2013)
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Yasmine Hamdan ( Arabic ياسمين حمدان; * 1976 in Beirut ) is a Lebanese singer , songwriter and actress . She founded the Middle East's first independent band ( Soapkills ) and through them first became known as the “underground icon of Lebanon” and then throughout the Arab world. Her collaboration with the Madonna producer Mirwais under the name YAS and with the weird folk sisters of CocoRosie brought her recognition in Europe and the USA.

life and work

Due to the civil war , Yasmine Hamdan spent the first 15 years of her life with siblings and parents between Beirut, Kuwait , Abu Dhabi and Greece . After her return, she founded the band Soap Kills with Zaid Hamdan while still at school in October 1997 . The name was a sarcastic allusion to how the Lebanese tried to "wash away" the bloody past. Yasmine Hamdan sang and wrote the songs in English and Arabic at the time. With trip-hop , electronic rhythms and traditional Arabic sounds, she generated a new genre. Yasmine Hamdan replaces the very strict, technical standards of Arabic singing with emotions, which she conveys through content, various Arabic dialects and, last but not least, in her performance.

She was particularly fond of the traditional Arabic songs of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. She does not see any separation between “western music” and the Arabic music with which she grew up. She was particularly inspired by artists like Asmahan and Aisha Al Marta. With her music, Yasmine Hamdan tries to revive tradition, but at the same time to question it. Quote: “On the other hand, I realized what I like about the culture that has shaped me: the humor, the mischievous, the sensual and cheerful that is expressed in it and at the same time hidden behind a veil of metaphors. To say something and not to say at the same time, that is very Arabic! "

Yasmine Hamdan has a degree in psychology, has taken courses in classical Arabic singing, plays the guitar and is proficient in Arabic dance. She lives in Paris with her husband, the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman .

Awards

Discography

with soap kills :

  • 1999: Bater
  • 2001: Cheftak
  • 2005: Enta Fen
  • 2015: The Best of Soapkills

with YAS:

  • 2009: Arabology (Production 50/50, Label AZ, Universal France)

Solo :

  • 2012: Yasmine Hamdan (Kwaidan Records; changed in 2013 and re-released as Ya Nass )
  • 2017: Al jamilat

Film music

Yasmine Hamdan Berlin 2017.JPG

Yasmine Hamdan wrote the music for the play Rituel pour une Metamorphosi by the Syrian playwright Saadallah Wannous in the performance for the Comédie-Française .

Web links

Commons : Yasmine Hamdan  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE
  2. ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Singer Yasmine Hamdan: Arabisches Fühling, Spiegel Online Kultur, June 13, 2013
  3. ↑ Uta Bretsch: Debut solo album by Yasmine Hamdan in May 2013 on Crammed Discs March 22, 2013
  4. ↑ Thomas Gross: SINGER YASMINE HAMDAN "I destroy out of love", ZEITONLINE, October 29, 2013
  5. ↑ Marlene Küster: Yasmine Hamdan: Arabische Klänge und Elektrobeats SRF, November 13, 2013
  6. ↑ arte.tv: Yasmine Hamdan - The Lebanese underground icon is back with a new album: "Al Jamilat- Die Schönen" May 11, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hamdan, Yasmine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ياسمين حمدان
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese musician, singer, actress and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut