The song “Connected” on her EP, Eclectica, pivots on the notion of being one blood and one people. Especially being multicultural and biracial and having two different heritages, I honor all of them, I recognize all of them but I’m not going to say I’m this much more than that.” So it seems I’m very uncomfortable with things that have to do with putting you into a box. ‘Are you Indian, are you black African, are you Chinese, are you Malaysian, what are you?’ But the thing is that people who were non-white couldn’t go into all-white areas.
“During apartheid in South Africa, people had to create passes, saying what race they were. Perhaps Ibrahim’s aversion for categorization is deeply rooted legitimately. Now the country is still trying to heal.” It was like I was experiencing racism from my own family and I would come back to North America, at the time I lived in this really small town and I experienced racism there as well.”Īcknowledging the severity of the pain inflicted on victims during that period she adds: “There were some really really nasty things that happened to an entire people, to an entire nation, completely broken.
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“I remember being in South Africa looking like I do with a light skin tone, being called white by some cousins. She softly chuckled before launching into the territory. “I remember at some point I felt there was a lot of anger, there was a lot of confusing things, the whole world was racist to me, the whole world was unjust,” Ibrahim reminisces about her high school years in Canada and South Africa.Īs she narrates her story there appears to be a hint of something yet to be unearthed in the emotional effects of apartheid. The encouragement from her family to be cognizant of the differences between the two places seems to have greatly contributed to the grounded life of this conscious artist. This resulted in Ibrahim schooling in both South Africa and Canada. Her father, she asserts, was exiled during the apartheid period and was adamant about having her experience life in South Africa as well as North America. She was born to a South African father and British mother in Vancouver, BC, where she lived until age three and then moved to South Africa to live with her grandparents. Indeed, Ibrahim’s origin knows no borders. I recognize and pay homage to and respect all of the influences that make up the sound but I can’t necessarily call it one thing.” I like to call it music I like to call myself human. I come from many things the music comes from many things. She professes: “I don’t like to categorize. But one interesting aspect of Ibrahim’s artistry is the arduous task of classifying her music – there is no one dominant element. It’s like my point of view, my expressions, my influences, my interpretation of things,” Ibrahim explains. “I think the music that I make will always be the poetry that I write. Her carefree movements in performances corroborate this notion of nonconformism about her her songs elucidate this even better. Not your usual “fresh girl on the scene,” Ibrahim holds a style very unique to her person, one made possible by a strong sense of self. The sound belongs to South African-Canadian music artist Zaki Ibrahim. The tone of her voice typifies originality, close to the raw, unadulterated timbre of a lyrebird. She sounds like Sade dipped in elements of funk, hip hop and something else ineffable.
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