DUBAI: Singer Sahar Ajdamsani is set to release her new song “Quarantine World,” which she performed with 10 international artists, on July 31, she revealed to Arab News.
The singer and musician wrote the lyrics to the song about the COVID-19 pandemic in 11 languages: Farsi, Arabic, English, German, Kurdish, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hindi and Greek.
“I wrote the lyrics in one day… it was like a miracle,” she told Arab News. “My mother language is Persian. I know English, I know German and I know a little bit of Arabic. For the other languages, I used grammar books and dictionaries.”
Each portion of the song was then performed by international singers in their native tongue.
Singers from around the world took part in the song. (Supplied)
Ajdamsani started working on the song in September 2020. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, each artist recorded their part of the song in the country they are based, making this a global collaborative effort.
The artists featured are Rodion Gazmanov from Russia, Jyotica Tangri from India, Karwan Kamil from Kurdistan, Ammar Alazaki from Yemen, Nasos Papargyropoulos from Greece, Bernd Kieckhäben from Germany, Flora Fishbach from France, Erica De Matteis from Italy, Jessica Lynn from the US and Luis Fernando Borjas from Venezuela.
Ajdamsani, who is the producer, director and project manager, also plans to release a music video for “Quarantine World” later this year.
Ajdamsani, who studied archaeology, started writing poems at the age of eight and says she faced hurdles when it came to persuading her family to accept her chosen career.
“Everyone told me not to study music. (People) don’t care about cultural heritage, and it made me really sad and I could do nothing about it. So, (I said) goodbye to archaeology and decided to just focus on music,” she explained.
After the release of “Quarantine World,” she is planning to move to Germany to continue her career.
