My comment is: no way, how come she win it? Her voice is good..but in this song, oh! she ruined it. She couldn't sing high pitch song. Then, I just did not continue to watch her other clips. But..maybe fortune on her side that she got the title of The First Winner of Academy Googoosh. Also maybe the hejab has brought miracle to her. She is the only woman that wears hejab in a circle of non-hejabis. So it gives her the point of attention there. Just like when Shila Amzah won the 2012 Asian Wave Singing Competition in China. Apart from their good voice of course, who knows?!
Whatever it is, whenever a competition reached the conclusion, there must be criticisms. Normally it is about the quality of the winner sort of..but this time, I found it a bit different in one of the people's criticisms. They are questioning about the appropriateness of a girl with hejab to join in singing competition? I was like wt%&?...What's wrong with that? Hello..this is 2013 and our world has became more civilized. Just because a woman is a Muslim, and she wears hejab, doesn't mean she has impossibility to do things she is allowed to. I am against of so called rule by radical Muslim saying that woman's voice is aurah that she cannot sing. For me, there's no different between man and woman. What is more important, whatever we are doing, we just need to know the limits. As long as you are inside the control area, we are OK.
Back to the story of Ermia, I think she did not do any wrong in joining the competition. Plus, through the above video, she behaved well in delivering the song, not over dancing or wearing sexy outfits, just nice with her hejabi appearance. So why need to critic her just because she win the competition and she wears hejab? Or maybe this is a new phenomenon in Iranian outside Iran music industry because there was none of the female singer wears hejab?? Maybe...
If I look in Malaysia's music industry, previously we have very limited number of hejab-wearing female singer. Just after the emergence of Yuna Zarai, the fashion of female musician has changed. Of course there were lots of criticism during that time, but then our society has started to accept that there's no problem with hejab and music. Hejab is not a barrier indeed. Some other female singers came into the industry after that. For example Najwa Latiff, Ana Tasneem. In fact some of them who previously without hejab has changed their appearance by wearing hejab. For example Shila Amzah and recently Siti Nurhaliza! And their career did not end after the changed! What a shock when now Yuna Azrai is spreading her fame in America and the industry accepted her the way she is. Refer to this link:
She even got the chance to sing a song for a new movie soundtrack for 'The Croods' film with Owl City.
For more information about Yuna:
Oh yeah, if I want to compare our local artist that has made name in "outside" with Iranian artist, of course Iranian has achieved way bigger fames. In this writing I just want to highlight that hejab is not a barrier for Muslim woman in any fields, name it and we can prove it..coz I am a hejabi :)
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