Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 04-07-2009 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Music, Episodes
She’s talented. She’s fun. She has an amazing voice. She’s Afghan-American. She’s Zohra. Zohra grew up knowing that one day she would become a musician. She started singing at a young age, and in high school learned how to play the guitar. Although her conservative Afghan parents tried to encourage her to pursue a traditional career, music was in her blood. She moved to New York City in 2003 to finish college, and to follow her dreams of becoming a singer and songwriter. After a stint at CITY Magazine writing music reviews, Zohra moved to Brooklyn and decided to “take her dreams by the scruff of the neck” and record an album. Her band, Religious to Damn, is described as a “span between the flames and the transcendence”, and mixes Eastern influences with alternative rock. Today, she is working with Jim Sclavunos from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Warren Defever of His Name Is Alive on her new album.
In Beauty and the East TV’s FIRST original episode, Zohra talks about her music career and the challenges of being a Muslim-Afghan-American musician living in two cultures. She also performs her hit single Falls Down Again.
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Posted by RoxshanSina on 04-13-2009
Great vocals! It’s so great to see pure new talent….Not the Artificial American Idol output…I love the song and the video.
Does she ever play in the New England area? (Providence, RI or Boston, MA)
Roxshana