Benutzer:Dazznlos/Dua Saleh

Dua Saleh (2023)

Dua Saleh (* 1994 in Kassala, Sudan) ist ein sudanesisch-amerikanischer Sänger und Schauspieler aus Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Leben

Saleh wurde in Kassala, Sudan geboren. Als er fünf Jahre alt war flüchtete Salehs Familie während des Zweiten Sudanesischen Bürgerkriegs zuerst nach Eritrea und später in die USA. Saleh wuchs in Saint Paul, Minnesota, auf. Er besuchte die Saint Paul Central High School und studierte später Gender Studies und Soziologie an der Augsburg University.

~~Salehs Muttersprache war Arabisch, und sie sagten 2017, dass es aufgrund ihrer Versunkenheit ins Englische ein „Kampf sei, diese Sprache beizubehalten“.[5] Saleh ist Muslim, aber sie betrachten sich selbst nicht als „religiös im institutionellen Sinne“.[4] Sie haben ihre Beziehung zu Traditionen der islamischen Kleidung diskutiert und erklärt, dass traditionelle „Kleidung nicht [ihre] persönliche Beziehung zum Glauben widerspiegelt, sondern das Bild eines Muslims, von dem [sie] indoktriniert wurden, zu glauben, dass es gesellschaftlich akzeptiert ist“.~~

Saleh outete sich im zweiten Jahr in Augsburg als non-binär, sagten aber, sie seien „schon immer auf schwulen Scheiß gestanden“. Saleh lebt in Minneapolis.

Karriere

Saleh began writing poetry when they were four years old and performed at their first open mic in their senior year of high school.[11] They used poetry to process experiences in their life and continued performing around the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area while in school at Augsburg.[3] Their poem "Pins and Needles" was recorded and shared on Button Poetry's YouTube channel where it garnered tens of thousands of views by 2017 and over one hundred thousand by 2018. They have also performed as part of the Queer Voices series at Intermedia Arts.[13]

While studying at Augsburg and working full-time, Saleh began to find that poetry was not giving them "enough nurturing sustenance".[11] They said of this time that "I was trying to do way too much, and my body was just like, 'No, you need to release something.' The melodies started coming in, and I think that was my body reacting and wanting to heal me, in some ways."[11] Saleh did not consider themself to be a proficient singer but connected via a mutual friend to producer Mike Frey to experiment with recording.[12] In Frey's home studio, he played a four-bar beat that Saleh mumbled over until Saleh announced they were ready to record; Frey expected four or eight bars from Saleh but Saleh ended up performing an entire track in a single take, with Frey manually extending the beat to keep up as Saleh sang.[12] According to Frey, the resulting single take was "such a good performance that we decided this is what we're going to run with"; it was released on May 10, 2017, as "First Take", Saleh's first single, under the stage name Dua.[12][14]

Saleh stated they were not in a rush to put out music but that by October 2018, they had "a lot of fuckin' songs" recorded and intended to release an EP later in the year.[10] Local alternative newspaper City Pages listed Saleh at number four that year on their annual Picked to Click list of new artists the publication's writers were excited about.[10] Saleh's debut EP, Nūr, was released on January 3, 2019, on the Against Giants label under their full name, Dua Saleh.[15][16] The five-track Nūr received positive reviews from Pitchfork and Robert Christgau and was supported by a music video release for the song "Warm Pants" that April.[17][18][19] They released two more videos that year, for "Sugar Mama" in October and for their new single "Pretty Kitten" in December.[20][21]

By early 2020, Saleh was noted in the Minnesota Daily as having a national following.[11] Saleh characterized their musical success as feeling like an accident to them, and said that they were still in the process of developing their identity as a musician.[7][11] Their next EP, Rosetta, was released in June 2020 and their third, Crossover, came out October 2021.[22][23]

On May 30, 2020, Saleh released the single "body cast" to address police brutality

Saleh's music has been categorized as rap,[6][18] pop,[17] and R&B.[17] Christgau described Saleh's performance style on Nūr as rap-singing while Michelle Kim characterized their vocal performance style as alternating "between deliciously tactile rapping and spellbinding singing".[4][18] Saleh also been noted for defying genre in their music.

Neben dem Schreiben und Aufnehmen von Musik hat Saleh auch im Theater in Minneapolis mitgespielt und ist für seine wiederkehrende Rolle als Cal Bowman in der Netflix-Serie Sex Education bekannt.

Diskographie

Alben

• 2019: Nūr (EP)
• 2020: ROSETTA (EP)
• 2021: Crossover (EP)
• 2022: Crossover (Deluxe)
• 2024: I Should Call Them

Singles

• 2018: Warm Pants
• 2019: pretty kitten
• 2020: mOth
• 2020: manOman
• 2020: umbrellar
• 2020: hellbound
• 2020: bodycast
• 2020: RE(a)D (with Bas)
• 2020: Bloodrush
• 2020: angel rock
• 2021: signs
• 2021: dashery
• 2021: fitt
• 2021: fav flav (with Duckwrth)
• 2022: i belong to you
• 2022: chosen
• 2023: daylight falls
• 2024: unruly
• 2024: want

Weblinks

Commons: Dazznlos/Dua Saleh – Sammlung von Bildern, Videos und Audiodateien

• Website von Dua Saleh
• Dazznlos/Dua Saleh bei AllMusic (englisch)
• Dazznlos/Dua Saleh bei Discogs
• Dazznlos/Dua Saleh bei IMDb