Sonita Alizadeh

Sonita Alizadeh

Musician · US · b. 1997

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Discography

Albums
Daughters for SaleDaughters for Sale2021

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Bag GirlsBag Girls2020

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Achievements

Award
BBC 100 Women
Award
Prix Liberté
Award
Asia Game Changer Awards
Award
Special Awards at MTV Europe Music Awards
Award
Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award
Award
Rhodes Scholarship

Influenced by

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Country

US

Born

1997

Instruments

voice

Identifiers & aliases
Description

Afghan rapper and activist

Extract from Wikipedia

Sonita Alizadeh is an Afghan rapper and activist who has been vocal against forced marriages. Alizadeh first gained attention when she released "Brides for Sale," a video in which she raps about daughters being sold into marriage by their families. With the help of Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, an Iranian documentary filmmaker who over three years documented her story in the film Sonita, Alizadeh filmed the video to escape a marriage her parents were planning for her, even though it is illegal for women to sing solo in Iran, where she was living at the time. After releasing the video on YouTube, Alizadeh was contacted by the Strongheart Group, which offered her a student visa and financial help to come and study in the United States, where she then relocated and has resided since. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.

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