Friday 6 January 2017

Sonita Alizadeh: The Wonderful Story of an Afghan Refugee Who Escaped Child Marriage by Rapping About It

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.

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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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