NY Times - Arabic Music's Modern Voice @YasHamdan
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PARIS — It was a familiar Paris hipster scene. The crowd behind the discrete façade of the Tigre club in the First Arrondissement were in skinny jeans with carefully tousled hair and clutching expensive drinks. Marc Collin, co-founder of the cult electropop collective Nouvelle Vague was setting up vintage keyboards on a tiny stage. The female drummer picked up her drumsticks and the skinny-cool guitarist settled into place. Then the singer, in jeans and a black vest, looking out from behind long dark hair, took the mic and began to sing.
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By TARA MULHOLLAND / Published: April 12, 2012
Photography by : http://amelierouyer.com Amélie Rouyer
Arabic Music's Modern Voice - Tara Mulholland of the IHT profiles Yasmine Hamdan : nyti.ms/IWQBxl
A version of this article appeared in print on April 13, 2012, in The International Herald Tribune.