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Dutch-Kurdish singer to marry boyfriend

Naaz reportedly has more than 150,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and is inspired by artists such as Kanye West, Oasis, and Lorde.

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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The 22-year-old Dutch-Kurdish singer-songwriter Naaz Mohammed, known simply as Naaz, said in a social media post on Tuesday that she will marry her boyfriend, Kevin.

“I said yes!!! We’re engaged”, she wrote, with a picture of Kevin. “Kevin you are my soulmate and the whole world can see here how beautiful you are but how blessed am I to know you are the most beautiful person inside that I’ve ever met.”

She also posted a picture of her engagement ring.

Naaz announced in July that she had a boyfriend and said he is “the one.”

The young artist grew up in the Netherlands, developing her musical sensibilities and skills somewhere between the Dutch and Kurdish cultures. She initially produced her own songs with a midi keyboard, which she got from her brothers for her fifteenth birthday, publishing them, like so many performers of her generation, on YouTube.

However, due to her Kurdish roots, Naaz needed some strength and time to convince her parents of her passion, cultural guide website Go Out writes. But now, her parents have become her biggest fans.

Since then, she has had significant successes, including winning two prizes at major European music awards.

Read more: Dutch Kurdish artist wins two prizes at Music Moves Europe Talent Awards

According to a recent interview in the Cosmopolitan, Naaz has more than 150,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and is inspired by artists such as Kanye West, Oasis, and Lorde.

In 2016, her first single, “Sadboy,” received a lot of attention. Within a year, she released three more songs, “Words,” “Can’t,” and “Up To Something,” all of which made it to the Top 15 on the Dutch charts.

On her debut EP, “Bits of Naaz (2018),” she tells eight stories that have fascinating imagery, are profound in their own way, and create a unique sound with her unmistakable soprano voice.

She also won several other prizes for her songs, including two Edison Awards, an annual Dutch music prize “awarded for outstanding achievements in the music industry.” In 2017, she was also nominated for the XITE Awards in the categories of Best Music Video and Best Kickstart.

In August, famous English artist Elton John gave a shout-out and played her newly released single Mute love that deals with the positivity of unrelenting friendships.

“Naaz is a Kurdish singer from Amsterdam, and this is her first song from 2020, and it’s quite a song I think, it’s called Mute Love,” Elton John said.

“This happened yesterday and I still can’t stop smiling,” Naaz wrote on Twitter. “Also I made that song with the man I wanna marry and it’s one of our first songs together so this is extra sentimental.”

Editing by Khrush Najari

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