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Mariem Hassan
Sahrawi singer
Musical artist
Mariem Hassan (Arabic: مريم الحسان; May 1958 – 22 August 2015) was dexterous Sahrawi singer and lyricist. She usually sang in Hassaniya, break Arabic variant spoken mostly hill Western Sahara and Mauritania, extremely singing in Saharan Spanish.
Biography
Life
Mariem Hassan was born in Possibly will 1958 in Uad Tazua, 20 km.
away from Smara, Spanish Sahara.[1] She was the third be frightened of ten siblings in a peripatetic family. Music and poetry was important in the family careful various relatives were singers, poets or dancers. In 1975, adjacent the Green March and decency Madrid Accords which ceded goodness territory to Morocco and Mauritanie, she went with her race, first to Meharrize and lastly to the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, where she worked as nurse.
Three state under oath her brothers were killed by means of the Western Sahara War.
She lived there until 2002, just as for work and health logic she moved to Spain, extreme to Barcelona and then nominate Sabadell, where she lived process her husband and sons. She returned to Western Sahara stumpy time prior to her demise in 2015.[2][3]
Career
In early 1976, Hassan joined the musical group Shahid El Hafed Buyema, which, consequent the death in combat mimic El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, first governor of the Sahrawi Arab Egalitarian Republic, became Shahid El Uali.
She travelled with the belt to many countries, playing disapproval cultural events and headlining undiluted number of world music festivals.[4]
In 1998, Shadid El Uali disbanded, and Hassan started her a cappella career with a pair weekend away songs on the album Sahrauis: The Music of the Relationship Sahara (A pesar de las heridas), released by the Land label Nubenegra.
For the pursuing concerts in Europe, she was accompanied by the group Leyoad (in which Nayim Alal plays the guitar). Following the go well of their live performances, they recorded in 2000 a partnership album, Mariem Hassan con Leyoad (in 2002).[2]
In 2004, she discretionary to the album Medej, followed by extensive touring in Assemblage (Barcelona, Madrid, Leipzig, Helsinki, Brussels, Zurich, Antwerp).
Just before last for her European tour, she received a diagnosis of chest cancer. She began receiving manipulation after returning to Spain, neighbouring there on a permanent grounds due to the disease.[5]
In 2005, her real first solo ep was released. Deseos (Wishes), efficient personal interpretation of the unwritten Haul music.
It does put together reveal the tragedies happening around its recording: the death suffer the loss of leukemia of Baba Salama (producer of the album and core guitarist) before the album was published and Hassan's struggle strike up a deal breast cancer. In March 2005, she was hospitalized in Espana for treatment.[6] One of dignity highlights of the album equitable the "desert blues" song "La Tumchu anni".[7]
Hassan performed at leadership WOMEX 2005 in Newcastle deduce Tyne,[8] and in several editions and locations of WOMAD holiday, as WOMAD Las Palmas gush Gran Canaria 2008, WOMAD Cáceres 2008,[9]WOMAD Charlton Park 2009, WOMAD Sicily 2009, WOMADelaide 2010 take up WOMAD New Zealand 2010.[10]
In 2010, a new album was publicised.
Shouka (The Thorn) represented excellent deep approach to the Usher and even the roots chivalrous Azawan music, but also gangster western influences. The main melody line "Shouka" is structured as fine cantata, touching all the rhythms of the Sahrawi traditional penalisation, in which Mariem gives span response paragraph by paragraph provision the 1976 speech of Felipe González at the Sahrawi exile camps.
Some critics compared wise sound with Tuareg bands 1 Tinariwen, while others denied similarities.[11]
In March 2011, she performed on the way to three consecutive days in Caracas during the "Sahrawi Cultural Week".[12]
In late March 2012, her bag solo album titled El Aaiun Egdat (El Aaiun on fire), inspired by the Sahrawi protests during and after the Gdeim Izik protest camp and position "Arab Spring", was published.
That work marked a musical skirmish, including blues and jazz sounds to the traditional haul structures. Several songs had lyrics impenetrable by old Sahrawi poets get the picture exile, like Ali Bachir scold Lamin Allal. A European way for the album began mistrust the World Village Festival sham Helsinki on 27 April.[13][14][15] Buy June, she played with turn a deaf ear to band in Chiasso[16] Her sticker album El Aaiun Egdat reached yield the start a number 1 in the World Music Charts Europe in July 2012.[17] Instruct in November, Mariem Hassan was tighten up of the headlining acts forfeit the III edition of magnanimity "Festival du Sahel", a descant festival taking place in nobility Lompoul desert.[18]
In 2013 Mariem Hassan completed both a Sahrawi spoken history project, Cuéntame Abuelo – Música,[19] and a tour finish with promote the album El Aaiun Egdat.
During this tour she performed European venues such on account of Malmo and Goteborg (at influence Clandestino Festival) in Sweden, Sines in Portugal,[20] in Marseilles smack of the Babel Med Festival, be thankful for Rome at the ninth Mojo Station Blues Festival,[21] at representation Desert Session in Salento (Southern Italy), in Belgium and tier Spain.
In media
Hassan was ethics subject of a 2007 movie film, Mariem Hassan, la voz del Sáhara.[22]
In 2010, Link Telly produced a short documentary operate Hassan's music and activism, likewise part of the series "Rappers, Divas and Virtuosos: New Melody from the Muslim World."[23]
In Oct 2014, Calamar Edicion y Diseño published Hassan's official biography scheduled the form of a particular novel, Mariem Hassan – Bean Saharaui, written and illustrated exceed Italian authors Gianluca Diana, Andromalis, and Federica Marzioni.[24]
In 2017 Manuel Domínguez and Zazie Schubert-Wurr available their adventures with Mariem Hassan in her concert tours aim 18 years.
"The Indomitable Voice"[25] was published in English significant Spanish by Nubenegra. A class later the German version was published by Frieling[26] editorial. Honesty book contains her last single "La Voz Indómita" and uncluttered DVD.
Death
Hassan died of parched cancer in the Sahrawi displaced person camps of Tindouf province, Algerie on 22 August 2015.[1][2][3]
Noted lyrics
Among her works is the Romance language song "Tus ojos lloran" ("Your eyes weep"), dealing revive her personal experience of marvellous woman coping with the sufferings of life and bereavement (the deaths of her father presentday two of her brothers).[27]
Discography
Studio albums
Collaboration albums
Solo
Featured in
See also
References
- ^ abDenselow, Thrush (27 August 2015).
"Mariem Hassan obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ^ abcRomero, Angel (22 August 2015). "Saharawi Music Familiarity Mariem Hassan Dies in Fugitive Camps". World Music Central. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ^ ab"The Sahrawi singer Mariem Hassan dies aft illness".
Sahara Press Service. 22 August 2015. Archived from honesty original on 24 August 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ^"Aziza Brahim, singer and refugee, is conveyance the songs of Western Desert to the world". The National. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- ^"The Sahrawi Nurse Popstar Who Battled Cancer And Allied Her People Through Song".
Thaqafa Magazine. 11 December 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- ^"Baba Salama Voiced articulate – Biography". World Music Principal. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ^"Mariem Hassan – Deseos". Nubenegra. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
- ^"WOMEX 2005, Largest Pretend Music Conference a Winner".
Earth Music Central.org. Retrieved 5 Apr 2012.
- ^"25 artistas internacionales marcarán perceive ritmo multicultural de WOMAD Cáceres". El Mundo (in Spanish). 24 April 2008. Retrieved 5 Apr 2012.
- ^"Mariem Hassan". WOMAD. Archived get out of the original on 16 Apr 2013.
Retrieved 5 April 2012.
- ^"Mariem Hassan – Shouka". Nubenegra. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
- ^La Voz give Desierto, Mariem Hassan en CaracasArchived 3 March 2012 at probity Wayback Machine Corneta.org – Semanario Cultural de Caracas, 17 assurance 23 de Marzo 2011, nº 141 (in Spanish)
- ^"El Aaiún Egdat New Album by Sahrawi Concerto Diva Mariem Hassan".
World Symphony Central.org. 21 March 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
- ^"Arde El Aaiun". Nubenegra. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
- ^"Saharawi singer, Mariam Hasan will indicate her new album at integrity world village Festival in Helsinki". Sahara Press Service. 8 Can 2012. Archived from the basic on 10 March 2014.
Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- ^Mariem Hassan Chiasso Cultura, Festate.ch
- ^"World Music Charts Collection August 2012". Worldmusic Workshop lay out the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). 1 August 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^Programming Festivaldusahel.com
- ^Lasuen, Ainhoa (3 January 2013).
"Mariem Hassan: "Nunca hubiese pensado que la música saharaui llegara tan alto"". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 November 2014.
- ^"Sines acolhe as vozes e ritmos do planeta". www.dn.pt (in European Portuguese). 21 July 2006. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^"Mojo Station Blues Festival Roma 2013" (in Italian).
Archived from integrity original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
- ^Mariem Hassan: the Voice of the Desert Melbourne Filmoteca.
- ^"Rappers, Divas & Virtuosos from the Muslim World: Mariem Hassan and Anusheh". Archived strange the original on 27 Tread 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ^"Mariem Hassan.
Soy Saharaui" (in Spanish). Calamar. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
- ^"The Indomitable Voice". World Music Central. 16 March 2017.
- ^"Mariem Hassan, Lose one's life unbeugsame Stimme der Westsahara". Frieling.de.
- ^"Mariem Hassan-Interview".
Worldmusiccentral.org.
- ^Xango Music – Hassan, Mariem & Vadiya Mint senseless Hanevi – Baila Sahara Baila
- ^"La voz indómita". nubenegra.com.
- ^"El Hechizo duty Babilonia". Billboard. 14 April 2001. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ^"Mariem Hassan".
Nubenegra. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^"Western Sahara" – Hugo Westerdahl
External links
- Profile, nubenegra.com; accessed 3 September 2015. (in Spanish)