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Female Afghan rapper breaks out

(China Daily/Agencies) Updated: 2013-01-04 09:45

Sporting a long leather coat and Western jeans under a headscarf, Soosan Feroz looks like many modern women in Kabul.

But she is a surprising new phenomenon in this conservative Islamic country - the nation's first female rapper.

Her lyrics, though, are not unfamiliar to many of her countrywomen - she raps of rape, abuse and atrocities that Afghan women have endured during decades of war in a country gripped by poverty.

"My raps are about the sufferings of women in my country, the pains of the war that we have endured and the atrocities of the war," Feroz said in an interview in the office of a local company that is helping her record her first album, speaking between local performances at places such as the US embassy in Kabul.

Like most Afghans, the 23-year-old says her life is filled with bitterness - memories of war, bombing and a life at refugee camps in neighboring Iran and Pakistan.

She was taken to Pakistan as a child by her parents and later to Iran, escaping a bloody civil war at home in the 1990s.

Two years after the 2001 US-led invasion of her war-scarred nation that toppled the Taliban, the then teenager returned home with her family.

She worked as a carpet weaver with her other siblings for a living until she discovered her talent.

Told that rap and hip hop had become a way for many artists around the world to express daily hardships in their lives, Feroz said: "If rap singing is a way to tell your miseries, Afghans have a lot to say.

"That's why I chose to be a rapper."

She recalls her woes at Iranian refugee camps in her first recorded piece of music, Our Neighbors, which has been posted on Youtube and viewed nearly 100,000 times:

"What happened to us in the neighboring country?

"We became 'the dirty Afghan'.

"At their bakeries we were pushed at the back of the queue."

The lyrics come from personal experience, Feroz said. "As a child when I was going to bring bread from our neighborhood bakery, the Iranians would tell me, 'Go back, you dirty Afghan'.

"I would be the last one in the line to get my bread," she said.

Millions of Afghans still live in Iran and Pakistan, which together sheltered about 7 million refugees after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979.

Feroz was too young to remember the bloody battles of the 1980s between the Soviet soldiers and freedom fighters known as mujahedin. But her first song is full of war tales, having a line proclaiming: "We went to Europe for a better life (but) in refugee camps we rotted."

Thousands of Afghans put their lives on the line every year to reach Europe through dangerous and illegal routes on land and sea. Those who make it often spend years in isolated refugee camps.

The Afghan pop star Farid Rastagar has offered to help the young artist release an album, the first song of which will be released in January.

One of the songs is called Naqis-Ul Aql, which can be translated as "deficient in mind" - a common belief about women among Afghan men.

Female Afghan rapper breaks out

Soosan Feroz, 23, Afghanistan's first female rap musician, preparing for a session at a recording studio in Kabul on Dec 10. Shan Marai / Agence France-Presse

"In this rap, she sings about the miseries of the women in Afghanistan, about abuses and wrong beliefs that still exist about women," Rastagar said.

Afghan women have made some progress since the fall of the Taliban, but many still suffer horrific abuse including so-called "honor killings" for perceived sexual disobedience.

Feroz, the daughter of a former civil servant and an illiterate housewife who remarkably let their daughter sing, has already made scores of enemies not only among conservatives but within her own family.

After releasing her first song on the Internet, Feroz's uncles and their families have shunned her, accusing her of bringing shame on them.

Others, mostly anonymous callers, have threatened to kill her.

"What's my fault? I always receive phone calls from unknown men who say I'm a bad girl and they will kill me," she said, her dark eyes welling with tears.

Sitting next to her is her father, Abdul Ghafaar Feroz, who said he prides himself on being her "personal secretary".

"I'm not deterred," Feroz said, her father nodding his head in agreement. "Somebody had to start this, I did and I don't regret it, and I will continue. I want to be the voice of women in my country."

Agence France-Presse

 

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