![News Added Feb 01, 2014 Aziza Brahim (Arabic: ????? ????????, born June 9, 1976) is a Sahrawi singer and actress. She was born in 1976 in the Sahrawi refugee camps, where her mother had settled in late 1975, fleeing from the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. Her father remained in El Aaiun, where he later […]](https://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/image48.jpg "Aziza Brahim : Soutak")
Aziza Brahim (Arabic: ????? ????????, born June 9, 1976) is a Sahrawi singer and actress. She was born in 1976 in the Sahrawi refugee camps, where her mother had settled in late 1975, fleeing from the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. Her father remained in El Aaiun, where he later died, and due to the Western Sahara War, Aziza never could meet him.
At the age of 11, she received scholarships to study in Cuba, as many Sahrawi students at the time. She wanted to study music, but was rejected. She left school and returned to the refugee camps in 1995, pursueing her musical career. Since 2000 she resides in Spain, first in León and later in Barcelona. She is married and she has a daughter.In 1995, she won the "1st National Song Contest", in the National Culture Festival of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. She joined then the "National Sahrawi Music Group", touring Mauritania and Algeria. In 1998 she contributed with two songs to the v.v.a.a. album "A pesar de las heridas". That year she toured Europe with and the Sahrawi group Leyoad, visiting Spain, France and Germany. In 1999 she went again to the refugee camps, recording a session for the Sahrawi National Radio with Touareg musicians from Tamanrasset, Algeria. Between 2001 and 2003, she toured again in Spain, France and Germany with Leyoad. In 2005, she collaborated with the Spanish latin jazz band Yayabo. In 2007 she created the group Gulili Mankoo, composed of musicians from Western Sahara, Spain, Colombia or Senegal, mixing traditional African music with blues and rock, recording with them in 2008 her first solo work, the EP "Mi Canto". In 2009 she collaborated on a song of the v.v.a.a. rap EP "Interrapcion - Crisol 09", and one song from her EP was featured in the compilation album "Listen To The Banned". Since 2009, Aziza Brahim is touring Spain and France with the Basque txalaparta group Oreka Tx, in the "Nömadak Tx en directo" tour.
In 2011, she gets involved in the Spanish movie Wilaya, composing, producing and interpretating the original soundtrack, as well as acting for the first time on a movie.
In February 2012, Reaktion scheduled Brahim's first LP, entitled "Mabruk" in honour of her grandmother, for June. In April, Efe Eme magazine reported that Brahim will be present at the 2012 edition of the WOMAD Cáceres festival. This is her latest album.
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