Shakira already has competition in the Middle East, she is an Iranian and one of the women who is currently in fashion on YouTube for her music and for being against ISIS policies.
Helly Luv –stage name of Helan Abdulla– he is 26 years old. Born in Iranbut grew up in Finland and lives in The Angels. His parents were Peshmergas, the soldiers who protect the Iraqi Kurdistan region, today under constant attack from ISIS and where the resistance of popular militias is strongest.
They are calling her «the Kurdish Shakira» and, in the entertainment industry, she has been an entrepreneur who bet heavily on digital media. Started in the almost disappeared my spaceis since 2013 a notable figure on the content map of Youtubewhere his first single, Risk it All (risk it all) it was a success.
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His latest video clip, Revolution (revolution)released in May, exceeded two million views on Youtube, and earned him a handful of death threats from the Islamic State. It was filmed in Kurdistan, dangerously close to a position taken by ISIS. The war tanks, the ruins after the destruction that serve as the stage and the list of victims of the attacks that appear in the clip are real. She herself was in charge of the artistic direction, seeking a balance between pop art and documentary value.
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“With this song I wanted to make sure I carried the message of hundreds of thousands who have been silenced”he would say in an interview for the Vice news portal, “We need to unite with other countries. We need help and access to weapons. We need to unite with different religions and nationalities to fight ISIS. The Islamic State is not only the enemy of the Kurds. And the Peshmergas are not just there to protect Kurdistan: they protect the world from the advance of ISIS”.
Although her political convictions are clear, her digital success took her by surprise. «I always dreamed of being an artist, but I never thought that would make me ‘the girl of the revolution’, as he calls me now»confess.
Taken from Infobae