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Uploaded by on Jan 17, 2009

The voice, the violons, the flute, the drums... Enjoy!!!

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Natacha Atlas (its her real name) was born in Belgium, of Middle Eastern descent, with ancestral and familial links to Egypt, Palestine and Morocco. Having moved around the world for most of her life, living in Brussels, Egypt, Greece and England, her experience of different cultures has most certainly influenced her music.Natachas first break came when she sang on Balearic beat crew !Loca¡s club hit Timbal, and was drawn into the Jah Wobble circle, singing and co-writing with his just-forming band Invaders of the Heart. (She has recently worked with Wobble again, on the 2002 Wobble/Temple of Sound album Shout At The Devil). She also met Transglobal Underground, the London-based multicultural collective who, in blending electronica, dub, hip-hop and funk with Indian, African and Middle Eastern musical forms, were significant role models for todays world-dance phenomenon. The encounter was to turn into a long-standing, happy association. First guesting with them in 1991, two years later she became a member of the core quartet of Transglobal, as lead singer and belly-dancer (the latter not some kind of limp tourist-pleasing wiggle but the real raq sharki). A couple of years later, it was the bands Tim Whelan, Hamid ManTu and Nick Page (a.k.a. Count Dubulah, now of Temple of Sound) who helped her to make her first solo album, Diaspora. Parallel with the success of her solo albums, she remained a full-time Transglobal member, and the Transglobals constituted as her backing band, until they left Nation in 1999, and they have remained allies throughout her subsequent career.

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  • :) !

  • Her voice is just incredible, isnt it?? :D

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  • this all lets me think that while the song is a tribute to God (after all Natacha Atlas is Muslim and shows her respect to God in many of her songs), it can also be a kind of tribute/respect to the ancient traditions and culture of Egypt (where Natacha has her roots). Anyway, thanks for your kind help and greetings from Poland :) May peace and prosperity shine over your country.

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  • wow nice

  • cool song

  • Ótima música para dançar solo de espada! Belíssima! Very Sexy!!!

  • I absolutely <3 her voice!!!!The music is phenomenal!!!!

  • No matter if she is Jewish or Muslim...She is a great person.She believe in the God of Avraham ,Yitzhak ,Yahaakov and Muhamad.Thats all it matter

  • @Sudanesemusic1

    u mean Jewish origin dad ( mizrahi )

  • Her Mother is muslim this make her NOT a jew

    In judaisim kids follow thier mother faith unlike islam

    + This is NOT Cnn stop speaking about faithes and policy

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    SHUT UP AND ENJOY THE MUSIC!

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  • @OldWaysFollower natacha atlas is jewish not muslim

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