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Hey everyone, I'm working on some new and exciting music to release later this year with a number of great producers/composers - one of which is a gentleman who goes by the name AttenCHUN. We're wor
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Hello All, I'm performing a couple of tracks for this event...should be a wonderful evening. xx
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"If I were going to make the perfect neo-soul singer, I'd add some Sade, a little Erykah Badu, a pinch of Adele, a hint of Jill Scott. But since I can't make this perfect singer from scratch, I'll
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17th/18th November 2012 - details tbc
Last night I watched 'For Colored Girls'. This film, directed by Tyler Perry, is adapted from a 1975 stage play 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf'. It's 'deeeeep', is what my cousin said when she told me to watch it - and DEEP it was.
Check out the trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDWU_cFU9ZA
So anyway, it got me thinking how much women have, and still do, suffer in this world (and for the fellas - I'm not saying you don't suffer, but being a woman, I'm going to talk from that perspective). Whether it's an African-American woman who is dealing with psychological trauma in her community, or an Afghani woman who sets herself on fire because she has no way out of an abusive relationship with her husband, or a British teenager who is filled with self-loathing as she compares herself to unrealistic images of women in the media. All different examples with varying degrees of suffering but suffering is suffering right?
Being from an arabic culture and having experienced, seen and heard about the suffering of women from this background, I wrote Pearls for us - to remind us of who we really are. But what I realised after watching 'For Colored Girls' is this song...is for all women.
Thanks to Drew Horley for helping me produce it. Composition inspiration taken from the song 'Hobbak Liya' by Nancy Ajram. Offered as a free download - as a gift from me to you.
Love, Peace and Blessings,
Noraay x