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When I started, I didn't know how to sing in Arabic - it's a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes and modes and quarter-tones.
When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that.
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.
With Soapkills, we were lucky. We started at a time of transition where things were not ready, nothing was available.
Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution.
Women are a minority the same way gay people are.
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.
You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.
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