It's hard to put the work of this woman into simple words. Yasmine Hamdan is a singer, songwriter and actress - but those terms fall far short. The Lebanese is at once a wanderer, an ambassador, an underground icon. She's lived in over twelve countries, she's built solid bridges between Arabic folk music and modern Western pop, and her band at the time, Soapkills, is often dubbed "the Middle East's first indie band."
And yet, after all these big words, you still don't know what it feels like to stand in the front row at a Yasmine Hamdan concert and listen to a language you may not understand literally, but intuitively. For while Yasmine Hamdan follows her very own vision of her songwriting, informed by the traditions of her homeland, she has shown, for example, by starring in films like "Only Lovers Left Alive," that her music resonates around the world.
Lyrics source and more information about this event: https://batschkapp.tickets.de/en/events/8919-YASMINE_HAMDAN
