Naima Shalhoub: Naima Shalhoub is a Lebanese Arab-American vocalist, composer, performing artist, and educator based in the Bay Area. Her multidimensional work explores the borderlands of belonging, remembrance, freedom, and the expansive quality of the voice - its power for healing and energizing social justice movements. Her first full-length studio album, Siphr, was released on August 6th, 2020.
Her debut album, Live in San Francisco County Jail, was recorded alongside an audience of incarcerated women with whom she had been facilitating weekly Music and Freedom sessions for one year (many of whom participated in the performance). Produced in solidarity with movements to end the prison-industrial complex, the recording embodies Naima s deeply-held belief that it is an artist s duty to reflect the times (Nina Simone).
Andrew Gilbert January 12, 2021Updated: January 15, 2021, 9:07 am
Musician Mai Khoi Photo: Diaspora Arts Connection
Banned. Censored. Arrested. Scorned. For some women raising their voice is more than an act of self-expression.
“Let Her Sing: A Celebration of Female Voices” is a yearly concert focusing on vocalists who defy patriarchal restrictions, state repression and cultural marginalization, and this latest installment has adapted to the necessities of social distancing. Recorded last month at Freight & Salvage, the online concert premieres Saturday, Jan. 16, and will be available to stream for a limited time after that date.
Co-presented with the Berkeley venue and streamed via its website, the fourth annual “Let Her Sing” concert is the latest production by Diaspora Arts Connection, the East Bay organization that champions North American musicians with roots in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
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