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

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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.

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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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I set the bar very high. I'm very tough on myself.

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When the public doesn't understand me, it's a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and sense, and I choose the right dialect to express that.

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As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with what you feel is needed for a song.

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I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile.

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When I go to Beirut, I don't drive. It's traumatizing to drive there.

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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 even worse.

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Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Musician

Born: Unknown

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