But that’s one of the beautiful things about growing older: You just accept your differences and learn to cherish them. I feel like girls with curly hair have an unspoken bond because we all went through hell in high school trying to fit in. Here, the former Hollywood sound engineer who just worked on the romantic comedy The Big Sick speaks about her stripped-down approach to both music and beauty (the latter a welcoming result of growing older, she says) and her politically charged lyrics that feel both urgent and timeless, American and multicultural all at once. She pairs her socially conscious look with hair that telegraphs a similar message-layers of dark finger waves and buried pencil curls parted down the middle, her brunette length frames her bushy long eyebrows and makeup-free face like a vintage picture frame. is another form of voting, especially until Citizens United gets overturned,” she says. NOSTALGIA PRONUNCIATION FULLBeyond her music (especially on “Back to You,” in which she sings lyrics like, “I do with little/don’t need a lot/I get with what I got” over siren-like strings), her look is choicely simple and retro, informed by a boudoir full of vintage finds, for reasons not only sartorial but also political: “Buying used, local, or strictly from companies that pay their employees a living wage. That less-is-more approach isn’t only apparent in Bedouine sonically, but also visually. “And I just got comfortable there-it was the first time I realized that the less you do with your voice, the more emotion comes through.” “I tapped into that emotion on ‘Solitary Daughter,’ ” she says of the first track she recorded with analog recording wizard Gus Seyffert (Beck, Norah Jones), a song about strength that she speaks as much as sings. from Boston to Kentucky to Texas to California-she found a type of anger, or rather “a refusal to be perceived cute or pleasant” to drive her sound, she says from over the phone at home in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Through them, and her own personal experience-she’s 32, born in Aleppo to Armenian parents, and spent her adolescence in Saudi Arabia before her family won the green card lottery, which took her across the U.S. Her self-titled debut, recorded on tape for Spacebomb Records, is a pure Americana trip back to the ’60s and ’70s-a bit folk, a bit country, replete with soft melodies and strong imagery that recall Joni Mitchell tales of wandering that pay homage to heavyweights like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen and a soothing but direct, deep voice, with barely a trace of vibrato, which she honed after listening to Nina Simone and bossa nova jazz singer Astrud Gilberto. When listening to Azniv Korkejian, who makes music under the name Bedouine, one is immediately transported to another time and place.
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