Hindi Zahra

Hindi Zahra Tamazight ????? ????? Arabic ???? ???? born 20 January 1979 in Khouribga Morocco is a Moroccan singer When coming up with a stage name she simply inverted her birth name Her songs are mostly in English but some lyrics as in the song Imik Si Mik are in the Berber Shilha language Influenced by singers like Cheikha Rimitti and Umm Kulthum Hindi Zahra has drawn comparisons with Beth Gibbons of Portishead Billie Holiday Patti Smith and Norah Jones Zahra was raised by her mother a dancer and actress in Khouribga Morocco At the age of fifteen she left school and moved to Paris to live with her father who had been a soldier At age 18 she worked at the Louvre Zahra wrote her first lyrics and melodies She is a selftaught multiinstrumentalist By 2005 she had written about 50 songs of which Beautiful Tango Oursoul Try and Stand Up were first released on the EP Hindi Zahra in 2009 and eleven songs were recorded on Hindi Zahras first album which was released in January 2010 at the Jazz label Blue Note Records The video to the opening song Beautiful Tango was made by French director Tony Gatlif The song Stand Up was chosen for a commercial campaign by Western Union In June 2010 she collaborated with French musician Blundetto on his debut album Bad Bad Things In November 2010 Hindi Zahra won the Prix Constantin for Best Album In February 2011 she won the Victoires de la Musique award for the best World music album In 2014 she had roles in the films The Narrow Frame of Midnight by Tala Hadid and in The Cut by Fatih Akin In April 2015 her second studio album Homeland was released Source Article Hindi Zahra from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30