Aziza Brahim

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Aziza Brahim
عزيزة منت ابراهيم
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Aziza Brahim during the presentation of the movie "Wilaya", at the 10th Human rights film festival in San Sebastián, Spain, April 26, 2012.
Background information
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Sahrawi refugee camps, Tindouf, Algeria
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GenresFolk music, roots music
OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from textActress, musician, producer, songwriter
InstrumentTemplate:Pluralize from textVocalist, percussionist
Years active1995–current
LabelTemplate:Pluralize from textReaktion, Glitterbeat
Websiteazizabrahim.com

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Aziza Brahim (Template:Langx, born June 9, 1976) is a Sahrawi singer and actress.

Biography

Life

She was born in 1976 in the Sahrawi refugee camps, in the Tindouf region of Algeria where her mother had settled in late 1975, fleeing from the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. Her father remained in El Aaiun where he later died. Due to the Western Sahara War, Aziza never met him.

Growing up in the severe conditions of the desert camps, Aziza discovered music as both a source of entertainment and a natural way to express and communicate her personal emotions and thoughts of resistance.

At the age of 11, she received a scholarship to study in Cuba, like many Sahrawi students at the time. She wanted to study music, but was rejected. She left school and returned to the refugee camps in 1995, pursuing her musical career.[1] Since 2000 she has lived in Spain, first in León and later in Barcelona. She is married and she has a daughter.

Her grandmother is the renowned Sahrawi poet Al Khadra Mabrook.[2]

Career

In 1995, she won the "1st National Song Contest", in the National Culture Festival of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. She then joined the "National Sahrawi Music Group", touring Mauritania and Algeria.[3] In 1998 she contributed with two songs to the collective album "Script error: No such module "Lang".". That year she toured Europe with and the Sahrawi group Script error: No such module "lang"., visiting Spain, France and Germany. In 1999 she returned to the refugee camps, recording a session for the Sahrawi National Radio with Tuareg musicians from Tamanrasset, Algeria. Between 2001 and 2003, she toured again in Spain, France and Germany with Script error: No such module "lang".. In 2005, she collaborated with the Spanish Latin jazz band Yayabo. In 2007 she created the group Script error: No such module "Lang"., composed of musicians from Western Sahara, Spain, Colombia or Senegal, mixing traditional African music with blues and rock, recording with them in 2008 her first solo work, the EP "Script error: No such module "Lang".". In 2009 she collaborated on a song of the collective rap EP "Script error: No such module "Lang".", and one song from her EP was featured in the compilation album "Listen to the Banned".[4] Since 2009, Aziza Brahim has been regularly touring Spain and France with the Basque txalaparta group Oreka Tx, in the "Script error: No such module "Lang"." tour.[5][6]

In 2011, she became involved in the Spanish film Script error: No such module "Lang"., composing, producing and interpreting the original soundtrack, as well as acting for the first time in a film.[7]

In February 2012, Reaktion released Brahim's first LP, entitled "Script error: No such module "lang"." in honor of her grandmother, for June. In April, Efe Eme magazine reported that Brahim would take part in the 2012 edition of the WOMAD Cáceres festival.[8]

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Aziza Brahim performing at WOMEX 15, Budapest

In 2014 Aziza Brahim released her third album Script error: No such module "lang". (Glitterbeat, 2014), an acoustic record featuring musicians from both the Barcelona and Malian music scenes and incorporating Malian, Spanish, Cuban and contemporary Anglo-European influences in addition to Brahim's traditional Sahrawi sound.[9] Soutak topped the World Music Charts Europe (WMCE) three times (March, April and May 2014).[10][11][12]

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1998 A pesar de las heridas – Cantos de las Mujeres Saharauis
  • 2003 Nar
  • 2009 Interrapcion – Crisol 09
  • 2010 Listen to the Banned

Awards and nominations

In 2009, she was a finalist for the Freedom to Create Prize, which celebrates the power of art to fight oppression, break down stereotypes and build trust in societies.[14] In late April 2012, she won the Málaga Spanish Film Festival Best Original Soundtrack Silver Script error: No such module "Lang"., for her music of the movie Script error: No such module "Lang"..[15]

Noted lyrics

Some of the lyrics of her songs are poems that she had heard from her grandmother El-Jadra Mint Mabruk, known as "the poet of the rifle" in the Sahrawi refugee camps[16]

See also

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Aziza Brahim (Western Sahara)". Freemuse – The World Forum on Music and Censorship. December 7, 2008. Archived from the original on October 9, 2010. Retrieved October 17, 2010.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Singing the Western Sahara blues". BBC News. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Aziza Brahim". Discogs.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Listen to the banned". www.listentothebanned.com. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Anartz Bilbao (February 4, 2009). "Oreka Tx presenta "Nomadak Tx Zuzenean", en gira por Euskal Herria" (in español). Gara. Archived from the original on December 11, 2011. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Aziza Brahim" (in español). Mirmidon.com. Retrieved April 30, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jordan Muntzer (February 14, 2012). "Wilaya: Berlin Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ya se conoce el cartel del WOMAD Cáceres 2012" (in español). Efeeme.com. April 20, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brahim, Aziza (November 26, 2013). "AZIZA BRAHIM اعزيزة ابراهيم: Julud: album Soutak, 2014".
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Charts - World Music Charts Europe". www.wmce.de.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Charts - World Music Charts Europe". www.wmce.de.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Charts - World Music Charts Europe". www.wmce.de.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Mawja". Joyzine. February 25, 2024. Retrieved March 8, 2024.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Aziza Brahim-Finalist of the 2009 Freedom to Create Main Prize". Freedomtocreate.com. Retrieved April 29, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Palmarés oficial del 15 Festival de Málaga. Cine español" (in español). FestivaldeMálaga.com. Archived from the original on June 5, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
  16. ^ Ljadra Mint Mabruk Aziza-brahim.blogspot.com.es Template:In lang

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