Chances are, if you are even
remotely aware about this singing sensation, then at the first looks she
will come across to you as someone with tons of wisdom, courage and
experience akin to an individual who’s well mature past her age. But 19
year old Sonita Alizadeh is as mischievous as she is remarkably
talented.
Not even out of her teenage years yet,
and having seen and endured a hitherto tumultuous life, Sonita Alizadeh
is a true-blue singing talent. A senorita blessed with good looks, and a
soul that is as stirring as her deeply troubled life albeit marked one
with redemption.
When she was just 10 years old, Sonita
Alizadeh, an Afghan citizen who was then living in Iran as a refugee was
being forced to marry completely against her wishes, but in a
phenomenon that’s common in her culture and her part of the world. She
was meant for bigger things, leave alone leading a boxed existence.
Sonita had a charm and an alluring
quality about her that somehow reassured her despite all the grimness in
her life that she was going to make it very far. And boy, did she do
that? Today, as we speak, through an envelope of defiantly eloquent rap
music, Sonita Alizadeh has firmly established her identity as a rap
artist and singer with a difference. She’s insanely talented and
soulful. She has the blend of natural poise, charisma and an unabashed
purity about her that lets her express her musical gifts in the fashion
of a voyager sifting past troubled seas; like a campaigner against a
heavy duty environment, unaccommodating to freedom and a person’s sense
of independence.
Sonita Alizadeh has battled poverty in
her former years at Afghanistan. Her family were hounded by Taliban, a
common nemesis of peace in the beautiful Afghanistan. She fled with her
family to Iran, against a tide of very unsettling emotions. One by one,
she saw all her friends disappear from the classroom and that is when
the youngster took to writing songs, in a manner of seeking solace
albeit with aloofness. Through, Rap, Music and poetry, and through a
soul-stirring confluence of the three, she went on to create a name for
herself.
Today, she lives in Utah, has mastered
English, has fallen in love with the exciting USA and sees a bright
future for herself as a bigger rap celeb but one with an outlet marked
with a beaming purpose- to revolt against child brides and child
marriages. Wow, the likes of Morrison and Marley would be proud. Didn’t
we all want a singer who was a bit of a revolutionary as well?
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