The saharawi Women feel very happy and would like to invite every person from all over the world to vote and support the nomination of the young saharawi singer, Aaziza Brahim, for winning the 2009 Freedom to Create Prize.Western Saharan singer and musician, Aaziza Brahim, who recently performed al WOMEX in the Dutch capiatal, Copenhagen and this year´s Lovebook Weekender in United Kingdom, is shortlisted for the 2009 Freedom to Create Prize, in the Main Prize category.
The young saharawi artist will perform at the awards ceremony at the Victoria & Albert Museum in the british capital on wednesday 25 november 2009, when the winners for the Main, Youth and Imprisoned Artist Prize categories will be unveilled.
Freedom to Create is an iniciative that seeks to improve lives by addressing society´s ability to support and sustain creativity. The iniciativefocuses on those societies in greatest need.
Aziza Brahim, whose songs evoke justice, the right for freedom, exile, and the respect of human rights of her people in the occupied cities of Western sahara, was in exile before she was even born, when her her heavily pregnant mother fled her homeland due to the moroccan military invasion and lived in the saharawi refugee camps in 1976.
Nominated for her album, Mi Canto, Aziza Brahim mixes saharawi music with rock, blues and African percussion, renovating the saharawi rhythms to make saharawi muc¡sic accessible to the whole world.
