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creative vision? emel mathlouthi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. now, you have had phenomenal success around the world since the arab spring, which propelled you to global fame. what is it now that still drives you to want to shake people? so many things. i guess, first of all, my passion for people and music and connecting. i feel that nowadays, more than ever, we need to connect with each other, and i feel that if we have this sense of union and empathy towards each other, i feel th...

thank you. now, you have had phenomenal success around the world since the arab spring, which propelled you to global fame. what is it now that still drives you to want to shake people? so many things. i guess, first of all, my passion for people and music and connecting. i feel that nowadays, more than ever, we need to connect with each other, and i feel that if we have this sense of union and empathy towards each other, i feel that the world could be a much better place. well, lets g...

Mm. did you also want to shake the label that in a way applied to you, because your music since has changed? well, its constantly changing, but you do seem to be wanting to move away from the idea of being a protest singer. well, so, for someone like me, and theres many people like me, im born and raised in tunisia, so im arab—african, and ive always felt that... ..as soon as i travelled, and i started a career in the western countries, i felt that i was kind of being stripped of the many laye...

There was nothing fake here. herfirst hit, mandinka marked her out as a performer with an edge. when a record executive had started talking about her hair, she shaved it off. she was wary, angry. she had a troubled upbringing and spent part of it in care. butjoining a band revealed her gift. # chiquitita, tell me whats wrong... she had the voice and charisma to be a chart—friendly pop star. used to worship god as a mother. now look at what were doing each other. but saw herself as a protest si...

That she was a protest singer and that it was not that tearing up of the picture on saturday night live which, as i say, because a storm of protests at the time. she would say it was the fact that she had that number one single that went globally that was the issue behind what she said was the biggest misconception. she wasnt a pop star, she was a protest singer instead. and protest singer instead. and nikki, im protest singer instead. and nikki, in looking _ protest singer instead. and nikki, i...

You in an emotional way, she could deliver the simplest of messages in a heartbreaking way. she deliver the simplest of messages in a heartbreaking way.— deliver the simplest of messages in a heartbreaking way. she named bob - ian, a heartbreaking way. she named bob dylan. david — a heartbreaking way. she named bob dylan, david bowie, _ a heartbreaking way. she named bob dylan, david bowie, and _ a heartbreaking way. she named bob dylan, david bowie, and bob- a heartbreaking way. she named b...

Record executive had started talking about her hair, she shaved it off. she was wary, angry. she had had a troubled upbringing and spent part of it and care. butjoining a band revealed her gift. she had the voice in the charisma to be a chart friendly pop star. # we use to worship god as a mother # we use to worship god as a mother # but look at what were doing to each other. flat # but look at what were doing to each other-— each other. at buts our self as a rotest each other. at buts our se...

Also reading a fascinating article that one of our colleagues at bbc six music had with her a couple of years ago when she was about to go on world tour. she started when covid came along and it got cancelled. that was sold out, showing just a couple of years ago how still massively possible popular she was. in this article, you my colleague asked her what the biggest mixed conception of her husband. she paused before answering, this is the answer she gave the time. —— of her has been. "der ...

Herfirst hit mandinka marked her out as a performer with an edge. when a record executive had started talking about her hair she shaved it off. she was wary, angry, shed had a troubled upbringing and spent part of it in care. butjoining a band revealed her gift. # i have sinned a lot.# but globalfame caught her by surprise. she was more a protest singer than a pop star. # i used to worship god as a mother # now look at what were doing to each other.# and in an area when the truth about child sex...

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