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Saudi’s first all-girl rock band cannot perform in public
by Scott Gilbreath ~ November 26th, 2008
It’s not easy being an all-girl rock band in Saudi Arabia. Not only are women oppressed but rock music is also forbidden.
They cannot perform in public. They cannot pose for album cover photographs. Even their jam sessions are secret, for fear of offending the religious authorities in this ultraconservative kingdom. But the members of Saudi Arabia’s first all-girl rock band, The Accolade, are clearly not afraid of taboos.
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All four members of The Accolade are women: Dina, the group’s guitarist and founder and her sister Dareen, bass player; Lamia, the group’s singer, and Amjad, the keyboardist.The group’s name was inspired by one of Dina’s favourite paintings, ‘The Accolade,’ by the English pre-Raphaelite painter Edmund Blair Leighton. She studies art at King Abdulaziz University.
Playing “in Saudi [Arabia]”? “Yes, it’s a challenge,” said Lamia. “Maybe we’re crazy. But we wanted to do something different.”
The band’s first single “Pinocchio” is posted at their MySpace page. It’s pretty good. Check it out.
Click here for a high-resolution image of Edmund Blair Leighton’s 1901 painting The Accolade.
So, you want to be a rock ‘n’ roll star?
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