With dance rhythms and a message of solidarity with the Palestinians, the rapper of Palestinian origin, Marwan Abdel Hamid (Saint Levant), who gained fame on the Internet, appeared from the stage of the American Coachella Festival, last Saturday.
Although Saint-Loupin’s concert coincided with the apparent return to the stage of the American punk band “No Doubt,” the 23-year-old artist was able to attract an audience that filled the “Gobi” tent for the great festival held in. in the middle of the California desert.
Saint-Loupin played his old and new songs in front of a crowd of fans, many of them waving Palestinian flags and wearing keffiyehs.
“Coachella, my name is Saint-Loupin, I was born in Jerusalem and I grew up in Gaza,” said the artist amid cheers.
Saint-Loupin reminded the audience that “the people of Gaza have been witnessing a brutal genocide for six months. The Palestinian people have been suffering from brutal occupation for 75 years,” he said, adding: “It’s not just me on the stage, but the entire Arab world on the stage.”
Marwan Abdel Hamid spent his childhood in Gaza before his family was forced to move to Jordan, and he currently lives in the American city of Los Angeles.
His rap song Few Friends, in three languages, spread widely across social networks after it was released in November 2022. His single From Gaza With Love was successful in in 2023 as well.
In his performance at the Coachella Festival, Saint-Loupin presented new songs, including “Deira,” named after the “Deira” hotel that his father built in Gaza and which was bombed a few months ago, and “5 AM in Paris,” he said. published a few days ago.
He explained to his audience that it was a song “about exile, a feeling we Palestinians know very well.”
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• Exile is a familiar feeling for Palestinians.
