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Helly Luv: Siren Of Kurdish Independence
Feminism in the Flesh: Kurdish Pop Star Risks Her Life to Make Music That Matters
Helly Luv and Kurdistan’s fight against terror
Helly Luv: Meet The Kurdish Pop Star Fighting ISIS With Songs
Kurdistan’s New Voice
Helly Luv: My Weapon is My Music
The playlist: folk and world – Helly Luv, Songhoy Blues, The Unthanks and more
Kurdish film written by Helly Luv depicts Yazidi genocide
The “Kurdish Shakira” Might Be The Most Badass Pop Star We’ve Met
We Spoke to the Kurdish Pop Singer Who Made a Music Video on the ISIS Frontline
The Kurdish pop star Helly Luv, real name Helen Abdulla, went into hiding. She released her music video for “Risk it All” that February, an anti-war, pro-Kurd...
Helly Luv: Siren Of Kurdish Independence
Luv, who has a music career in Los Angeles, dances in a silver mini-dress across the walls of Irbil's ancient citadel, rides a motor scooter...
Helly Luv: Meet The Kurdish Pop Star Fighting ISIS With Songs
Luv, whose real name is Helen Abdullah, was born in northern Iran in 1988 amid a war with Iraq. She was smuggled out of the country on horseback...
Feminism in the Flesh: Kurdish Pop Star Risks Her Life to Make Music That Matters
It must have been difficult for 27-year-old Iraqi-born...
Helly Luv and Kurdistan’s fight against terror
Helly Luv is an internet star and a symbol of the Kurds' strong spirit of resistance. Many in her Western audience see her personifying much of what they see...
Kurdistan’s New Voice
Pop singer Helly Luv cavorts with lions, throws molotov cocktails and dances with AK47-waving peshmerga – and doesn't wear an awful lot doing it.
Helly Luv: My Weapon is My Music
Kurdish pop star Helly Luv, who some compare to Shakira or Lady Gaga, is joining the fight against ISIS- through her music.
The playlist: folk and world – Helly Luv, Songhoy Blues, The Unthanks and more
Defiant pop from a petrol-bomb-hurling female Kurdish singer meets fresh twists on British folk and Eddie Grant's anti-apartheid classic from the 80s.
Kurdish film written by Helly Luv depicts Yazidi genocide
Kurdish film written by Helly Luv depicts Yazidi genocide. Actresses Mazichin Khoshnaw and Sharara Ibrahim star in the film, alongside a group...
The “Kurdish Shakira” Might Be The Most Badass Pop Star We’ve Met
Helly Luv may be a pop singer, but the Kurdish artist is using her music to put a spotlight on her people and an overlooked part of the...
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Kurdish-Finnish singer, performer and activist who has produced music and visuals supporting Kurdish and Iranian women's protests.