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Natasha Atlas (UK)
nominated by:
Neil Leggett:
'The music she produces never fails to excite and gets better all the time.'
Emily Bboulter, Dublin:
'She is the coolest singer ever, she is beautiful, exotic and very talented. I think that her music is incredibly evocative and everyone should buy her records.'
Fi Pusey:
'The strangest mixture of different worlds in one person.'
Jason Clapperton:
'The Kate Bush of the Arab music scene. Her stamp is on every aspect of her work. Truly original.'
William Starritt, London:
'She has managed to fuse the contemporary world music scene with traditional Arab and Latin sounds. Her albums are timeless and each track is a story of sound and passion, even non Arabic speakers can get entranced in the rythms, vocals and percussion. This music gives us an alternative to the 'manufactured' sounds of the West and gives us music inspired by the sounds of nature and tradition. In the West we can learn a lot from this music as long as we don't try to amend it to suit our ears.'
Rika Yamashita, Leicester:
'She's my inspiration, ahe has a real talent. Her songs are well done, Arabic music, but with electronic sound which is not too much nor too less.
Even her lyrics, especially those people with "double cultures", regardeless of Arab or non-Arab, can relate to them.'
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