#LYRICS TO AMADINE BY SEVDALIZA PROFESSIONAL#

It’s a transformative experience to find your way. Sevdaliza-For anyone, going somewhere new takes a few years to adjust. I don’t really know how it was because I was very small.īeatrix-How was it for your parents? Living in the Netherlands during the first few years, you probably watched emotions. Above The Fold Fashion A Whole New World for Janette Beckman Fashion Paskal’s Theory of Design Fashion Splendid Reverie: Backstage Paris Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2017 Fashion Document Turns FiveĪnn Binlot-Sevdaliza, what was it like coming to the Netherlands from Tehran? In their home country this summer, Sevdaliza and Ruf conversed over their common creative ground, discussing the role of identity in art, racism, and migration. In 2006, she curated the Tate Triennial, along with a survey of the German artist Isa Genzken, and her collaborators span from the established, like Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, to the emerging, such as South African artist Zanele Muholi, who opened an exhibition at the Stedelijk in summer of 2017. Her dedication to art and sense for aesthetics have qualified her as one of the most admired museum heads in the world. The German curator moved to Amsterdam from Zurich to become the director of the Stedelijk Museum in 2014, the city’s main institution for modern and contemporary art. Like Sevdaliza, Beatrix Ruf landed in the Netherlands as a foreigner. Through her melancholic lyrics, she investigates identity and transformation. It wasn’t until after university that Sevdaliza honed her sound: a fusion of haunting vocals mixed in with sultry synths and pulsating beats.

She went on to play for the Dutch national basketball team in her teens before pursuing a master’s degree in communications. Born in Tehran, the singer-whose ethnic background is Persian, Russian, and Azerbaijani-left Iran with her family to move to Rotterdam at a young age.

#LYRICS TO AMADINE BY SEVDALIZA PROFESSIONAL#

Just as she takes on several characters (Amandine, Marilyn Monroe, and Zilla-a woman experiencing loss-are a few in her professional realm), Sevdaliza’s personal background too is fragmented. “There’s a woman, she’s every fantasy, and no reality in one,” sings Sevda Alizadeh, better known as Sevdaliza, in “Amandine Insensible.” The song is about one of the musician’s alter egos, a woman named Amandine, who is so lost in her fantasies that she doesn’t care about anything else around her. Both foreigners in the Netherlands, Musician Sevdaliza and curator Beatrix Ruf connect about migration and the role of identity in art.

Lyrics to amadine by sevdaliza