It is not often heard about rappers of the Iran - and it is still more rare to hear of the female MCS - but 25 years Salome is used to being an exception. While hip-hop is more popular with the young people of the Iran (of which two thirds are under 30 years), the theocratic regime that controls the release and implementation of music in Iran were never fans. In 2007, rap denounced Government - has played at parties and in cars by urban teens accustomed defiance of the strict laws of the country - as vulgar and obscene. The Minister of culture has promised to stop producing recording studios. These restrictions are yet not enough to silence Salome.
"Any type of problem you face, there is always a solution," first female MC of the Islamic Republic says airily. But for this charming truculent interpreter, it is difficult to imagine what it would admit, it was a problem. Certainly not the fact that there is a formal ban on women singing in public: Salome simply began creating his own tracks in his bedroom. "When I started, he challenges y," is all that it will admit. "But I don't know if they would not still be there for a man."
Living in Iran, a few months ago, Salome was forced to duck and weave around strict regulations set out by its leaders. This fall, she moved to the Japan to study engraving, but is still releasing tracks on his MySpace page and work on an album. The handful of concerts, she sang were Turkey and the Netherlands. But the Salome, says that it seeks not only to a wider public. "I prefer a person to really understand what I say than a thousand people who want to just shake hands and dance".
Salome discovered hip-hop at the age of 15 years. He helped her to deal with the feelings of isolation and alienation in a new culture, after that a childhood spent in Turkey and the Azerbaijan. Yet despite the Turkish language, in English and Farsi (the national language of the Iran), it can only rap in the latter case. Farsi, says, "is a very poetic language." And poetry is very important in Iran, each room has a book of poems by Hafez. "(Hafez was very influential in the 14th century Iranian poet). "Perhaps this is why hip-hop is so popular,"she said."".
Salome wishes to emphasize that not all his songs are political-"I have suffered more, to love, I have never in politics", she said. Yet, it is hard not to imagine that it was his political songs which attracted the attention of the judges of the freedom to create prize, an international award of art that promotes social justice. Although she did not win, the judges praised her courage - courage which is evident in tracks such as waters, written after the elections of 2009 impugned which saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad retain his presidency amid accusations of vote rigging, creating huge protests that are known as the muddy green gift movement ' t. Her mild voice in contrast to his angry delivery because it rappe: "" one night, they stole my glimmer of hope / if I remain silent, if I still / who will do right? "" Raw style, emphasizing was born of anger, she said, to what happened in the election, even if it did not take the streets to align itself on any part. "I knew nothing about it the green movement." The police beat me. In the streets, I have seen all different types of people - women in sailing to young girls who were high school students. ?
Despite his outspoken attitude, Salome have so far managed to avoid the ire of the Government. She insists that she has never censored his work but try to be careful to ensure the safety of his family and him. She refuses to reveal his true name, saying that she chose Salome after reading the play by Oscar Wilde, because it expresses on the other side of his personality. "Inside me, there was the shy girl who wanted to hide and a rebel - a girl who wanted to scream, and which was Salome angry."
A large part of his occasional tetchiness drift fear play in that she considers the distorted Iran women's image, which, she says, is reinforced by Iranian artists, such as Shirin Neshat, which won the Venice film festival Director's award. "There are a lot of Iranian women artists outside the Iran using this image here women are oppressed to get themselves famous." If you say things, that the Western media want to hear, then they will adopt you. Women are really important in Iran – 60% of University students are women.
"All this propaganda about how people are oppressed will give Western countries more excuses if they are interested in occupying us." I see the Iran as a family - even if the regime governing the country, at least they are Iranian. ?
It is an idea that she voices in the song green grown on this land. "Do not leave our House burn / the fight will not be / we are still a family but they are strangers.". And Scream to let your voice be heard is a diatribe blasting young Iranians who support Israel as a form of rebellion against the support of the Iranian regime of the Palestinians.
After four months in the Japan, however, the Salome let go says that it is in a more representative atmosphere and will focus on his music and art that she hopes will support him, rather than political. "I do not think that I will never stop as I do - if I do not write poetry, I start to feel bad inside."
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