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Birth name | Nemah Hasan |
Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Genres | Pop |
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Years active | 2021-present |
Website |
nemahsis |
Nemahsis is the stage name of Nemah Hasan, a Palestinian Canadian pop singer from Toronto, Ontario. [1]
Originally from the Toronto suburb of Milton, [2] Hasan began her career on TikTok, posting beauty and fashion videos aimed at Muslim women alongside occasional videos of her singing Adele covers. [1] After being exploited by a company that hired her for an advertising campaign and then failed to pay her, in June 2021 she released her first original single and video "What If I Took It Off for You?", about social attitudes toward Muslim women who wear the hijab. [3] She followed up with the singles "Paper Thin" in October 2021 and "Dollar Signs" in January 2022, [4] before releasing the EP eleven achers in March 2022. [5]
She followed up with the new non-EP singles "Criminal" in October 2022, [6] and "I Wanna Be Your Right Hand" in February 2023. [7]
On October 12, 2023, soon after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7 leading to Israel's blockade of Gaza in response, the singer shared on social media that she had been dropped by her label after refusing to "cool-down" her activism through posts online displaying support of Palestine. [8] Her subsequent posts include a rendition of Team, by New Zealand artist, Lorde [9] with images from Gaza before and after bombardments. [10]
The Canadian music magazine Exclaim! named eleven achers one of the 15 best Canadian EPs of 2022. [2]
Hasan and her songwriting colleagues Brendan Grieve and Stevie Solomon were nominated for the SOCAN Songwriting Prize in 2022 for "Paper Thin". [11] In 2023, the Prism Prize named Nemahsis the winner of the Hi-Fidelity Award for artists using music video in innovative ways. [12]
Nemahsis | |
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Birth name | Nemah Hasan |
Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Genres | Pop |
Occupation(s) |
|
Years active | 2021-present |
Website |
nemahsis |
Nemahsis is the stage name of Nemah Hasan, a Palestinian Canadian pop singer from Toronto, Ontario. [1]
Originally from the Toronto suburb of Milton, [2] Hasan began her career on TikTok, posting beauty and fashion videos aimed at Muslim women alongside occasional videos of her singing Adele covers. [1] After being exploited by a company that hired her for an advertising campaign and then failed to pay her, in June 2021 she released her first original single and video "What If I Took It Off for You?", about social attitudes toward Muslim women who wear the hijab. [3] She followed up with the singles "Paper Thin" in October 2021 and "Dollar Signs" in January 2022, [4] before releasing the EP eleven achers in March 2022. [5]
She followed up with the new non-EP singles "Criminal" in October 2022, [6] and "I Wanna Be Your Right Hand" in February 2023. [7]
On October 12, 2023, soon after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7 leading to Israel's blockade of Gaza in response, the singer shared on social media that she had been dropped by her label after refusing to "cool-down" her activism through posts online displaying support of Palestine. [8] Her subsequent posts include a rendition of Team, by New Zealand artist, Lorde [9] with images from Gaza before and after bombardments. [10]
The Canadian music magazine Exclaim! named eleven achers one of the 15 best Canadian EPs of 2022. [2]
Hasan and her songwriting colleagues Brendan Grieve and Stevie Solomon were nominated for the SOCAN Songwriting Prize in 2022 for "Paper Thin". [11] In 2023, the Prism Prize named Nemahsis the winner of the Hi-Fidelity Award for artists using music video in innovative ways. [12]