{"id":445954,"date":"2022-05-12T19:03:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/faouzia-could-be-gen-zs-next-big-pop-star\/"},"modified":"2022-05-12T19:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:03:23","slug":"faouzia-could-be-gen-zs-next-big-pop-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/faouzia-could-be-gen-zs-next-big-pop-star\/","title":{"rendered":"#Faouzia could be Gen Z\u2019s next big pop star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27d2266b9ed\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27d2266b9ed\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/faouzia-could-be-gen-zs-next-big-pop-star\/#%E2%80%9CFaouzia_could_be_Gen_Zs_next_big_pop_star%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Faouzia could be Gen Z\u2019s next big pop star&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CFaouzia_could_be_Gen_Zs_next_big_pop_star%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Faouzia could be Gen Z\u2019s next big pop star&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                            The Moroccan-Canadian singer built a huge fan base and netted a Juno nomination\u2014without even releasing an album\n                        <\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">E<\/span><span class=\"s1\">arlier this year, <\/span>Faouzia Ouihya got a cryptic heads-up to tune into the 2022 Juno nominations announcement. The young singer\u2014whose stage name is Faouzia (pronounced <i>Foe-zee-ya<\/i>)\u2014watched it at home in Winnipeg on March 1 with her older sister, Samia, wondering if the tipoff was an effort to boost viewership numbers. \u201cBreakthrough artist was one of the last categories announced,\u201d Faouzia says in a Zoom interview. \u201cEventually my name and face popped up and I was like, \u2018Oh my gosh, this is insane.\u2019\u2009\u201d A month later, she says, it still hadn\u2019t sunk in. Talking with her team about what she\u2019s going to wear to the award ceremony, she realized, \u201cI\u2019m going to the Junos because I\u2019m nominated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Faouzia is not quite a household name in Canada, but this year\u2019s Junos might change that. She\u2019s nominated alongside well-known talent, including Tesher, a South Asian-Canadian artist from Regina who collaborated with Jason Derulo on <i>Jalebi Baby<\/i>, which has more than 200 million views on YouTube, and Toronto-based r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er Pressa, who has toured with Drake. Faouzia is a fierce contender herself. At 21, she already has a single with John Legend and shares an agent with Billie Eilish. Faouzia has legions of loyal fans: 3.1 million TikTok followers, 1.9 million YouTube subscribers, 1.9 million Instagram followers and over four million monthly listeners on Spotify. She\u2019s one of many Gen Z artists cultivating a fan base on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>, and particularly on TikTok, even before releasing an album.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MORE:\u00a0Emily St. John Mandel can\u2019t stop writing about pandemics<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">There are two reasons Faouzia has attracted such a massive following. The first is her incredible talent as a singer. Vocal coaches on YouTube rave about her range, depth of tone, vibrato and breath control, and fans post adoring tributes on TikTok. The second is her down-to-earth and bubbly personality. In a TikTok Live with iHeartRadio last fall, she was asked which shampoo she uses on her glossy hair: Costco\u2019s house brand, Kirkland, she said. In a Refinery29 video segment revealing the contents of her purse, she unpacked deodorant, stain remover and gum from her SwissGear backpack. \u201cYou can catch me on campus with this bag,\u201d she said, referring to her time spent at the University of Manitoba as a computer engineering student. <\/span>Faouzia often <span class=\"s3\">posts snippets of songs on social media, singing a <\/span>cappella or lip-synching into a hairbrush. In some <span class=\"s2\">videos she experiments with performance\u2014wid<\/span>ening her eyes like an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/anime-manga\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"6\" title=\"Anime || Manga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anime<\/a> character or wearing her long, dark hair in space buns reminiscent of TikTok-star-turned-singer Bella Poarch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Faouzia was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and immigrated to Canada with her parents and sister when she was a year old. She grew up in Carman, Manitoba\u2014a town of 3,000 people an hour southwest of Winnipeg. \u201cI had so much time to do literally <span class=\"s1\">anything because it was so cold outside and I didn\u2019t play hockey,\u201d she says. She came from a music-loving family that listened to the biggest names from the Arab music world\u2014legendary Egyptian singer-songwriter Umm Kulthum, Lebanese songstress Fairuz and Algerian pop star Khaled. Faouzia\u2019s parents put their three daughters in piano lessons, and Faouzia also taught herself how to sing and learned to play guitar and violin. She absorbed all she could from pop divas like Lady Gaga, Beyonc\u00e9 and Rihanna and decided she wanted to be just like them. \u201cWhen you\u2019re a kid, you\u2019re super confident. You have all these dreams and aspirations, and nothing is in your way,\u201d Faouzia says. \u201cAs I grew older, I was like, \u2018Am I gonna be a singer? Is this realistic?\u2019\u2009\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Faouzia started performing in talent shows when she was five, singing and playing the piano. At eight, she began appearing at small festivals in and around Carman, performing classical compositions\u2014Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart. She also started to experiment with pop music. She released her first single, <i>Knock on My Door<\/i>, in 2015, and two years later she won the Nashville-based competition Unsigned Only, netting a prize of US$20,000. In 2017, when she was 17, Faouzia was signed to a talent agency, and just before her 18th birthday, she was signed to a record label. She now records with Atlantic Records, and her first EP, <i>S<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped<\/i>, was released in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">All of a sudden, the kid from small-town Manitoba was being flown out to Los Angeles to write with a team, later collaborating with French DJ and producer David Guetta and Swedish producer Ali Payami, who has worked on songs for the Weeknd and Demi Lovato. \u201cIt felt like I would wake up at any second and be in my bed in Carman,\u201d Faouzia says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Faouzia also writes on her own every day, and has credits as a composer and producer on her work. During the pandemic, she performed on the Kelly Clarkson track <i>I Dare You<\/i>, which Clarkson sang in six languages with artists around the world. \u201cI grew up singing her songs,\u201d Faouzia said in an interview with <i>ET Canada<\/i>. \u201cHearing her sing in Arabic was just so special.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>RELATED:\u00a0Meet the muses behind Robert Munsch\u2019s most iconic stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\">Another pinch-me moment was collaborating with John Legend on the ballad <i>Minefields<\/i>. Faouzia recorded the track on her own, but her team had the idea of adding a powerful male vocalist to accompany her. They sent her recording to Legend and heard back a week later: he loved it. A week after that, he recorded his vocals. \u201cIt was the fastest, easiest collab ever\u2014he was just so involved and invested,\u201d Faouzia says. The process happened over Zoom, but the pair finally met when the video was shot over two days in late 2020. Since it was released in January 2021, the video has been viewed over 72 million times on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Faouzia\u2019s star is quickly ascending: <i>Rolling Stone<\/i>, <i>Variety<\/i> and <i>People<\/i> have all flagged her as an artist to watch. She\u2019s been flown out to Egypt for a private event, invited to a Chanel show in Dubai and attended her first New York Fashion Week earlier this year. Faouzia took last semester off school to work on an eight-track release called <i>Citizens<\/i>, which comes out in May. 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