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Palestinian thinker and literary critic Edward Said asserts that music gives you the way to evade reality, as it helps you to understand life in a deeper, and throughout its history, music was not a mere art that people separated from the surrounding reality, but it was always linked to the heritage and history of peoples, as it was an important tool One of the tools of resistance and struggle, and in Palestine the song is an important axis of promoting Palestinian identity. Dana Salah, a peasant pob artist in Palestine, has been trying for years to strengthen the Palestinian narrative, through her art.

Who is Dana Salah?

Dana Salah was born and raised and brought up in the Jordanian capital, Amman, where she started composing music while she was nine, and when she grew up, she joined the University of Duke, which is located in Durham in North Carolina, after her graduation, Dana moved to New York City and there she called herself the Arab pop artist "King Deco "and her single song" Move that Body "got more than 11 million listening through the Spotify application, and reached sixth place on iTunes Dance lists in the United States.

During the year 2020, Dana returned to Jordan and released her first Arabic song entitled "Wino" under her original name Dana Salah, which achieved more than a million views in 3 months on YouTube, and was added to more than 1,000 personal operating lists on Spotify.

What is agricultural pop?

Dana explains in a press interview that the agricultural pop emanates from the earth, as it is the farmer who is cultivated and harvested from the earth, for the Palestinians and because of the olive trees that they have in abundance, their culture and music are very intertwined with their source of lives, which is the land and olives, so many words of Dana's songs Its aesthetics are derived from the land and from the Palestinian traditions and heritage, and therefore the agricultural pop is this earthy sound, which is inspired by the integration of traditional Arab folklore with classic Arab musical instruments and contemporary Western sounds.

The story of the "Revolution" path: The song, which includes more than 25 artists to support Palestine

Dana, who participated in the famous song "Aparen", which was released during the current Gaza war, confirms that everyone feels unable and shocked during the current time because of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian territories. Everyone does not know how this war can stand, and Dana adds that there is something that lacks it The Arabs are strongly in the field of music or the political field, which is that they do not remain together in times of crisis, and for this Dana feels proud because she participated in the path of return, which included more than 25 artists, Dana believes that their meeting together is a cause .

Palestinian women's challenges in the field of music

Dana says as an unmarried woman, 34 years old, and works in the music industry, this is a big problem for her grandmother, and there are many wonderful single women who feel that it is too late in life and that they should be married, “even when I was 23 A year in New York, I was afraid to tell people about my age, as society will always make you feel as if you have an expiration date. ”Dana says.

What is the source of inspiration for Dana Salah?

Dana was listening in her childhood to the songs of Umm Kulthum and Abdel Halim Hafez and Warda with her grandmother, and since she began to compose music, she wanted to draw her inspiration from her special origins such as childhood songs, or experiences with her grandmother who grew up around her Arab culture, or Western influences such as the way he writes It has Alanis Morrison or harmony of Fleetwood Mac.

What effect does Dana want to make through music?

Dana dreams of making her music people feel less unit, whether they are single women, Arabs in the United States, Arabs in the Middle East, or Palestinians, and she hopes to attract foreign crowds to better understand Arab heritage and music, and that music achieve what she failed to achieve Politics, and finally Dana loves the inspiration of young girls and to make them choose the best path for them away from adult plans.