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Samia Malik’s dynamic, evolving working practice encompasses music, visual art and education. Asking challenging and important questions about our common humanity, Samia’s work has enthralled audiences from the UK to India.
Samia writes and performs songs based on traditional Urdu Ghazal (a highly refined union of poetry with music) extending and subverting the form to explore contemporary issues around identity, race and gender. She has collaborated with acclaimed world-class musicians, writers and artists including Baluji Shrivastav OBE, Mallika Sarabhai, Guiliano Modarelli, Kishwar Naheed, Seemab Gul, Al MacSween, Sukhdeep Dhanjal, Sianed Jones, Anne Tiburtius and Cris Cheek. She has released three albums: ‘The Colour of the Heart’ (1998) ‘Jaago – Wake Up’ (2004) and Azaadi: Freedom (2017). Samia is also a visual artist, mainly working in painting and video - her live shows are supported by projections of her original visual art.
LATEST NEWS
Samia Malik’s latest touring show, an electrifying new collaboration with internationally respected Italian guitarist Giuliano Modarelli, ‘world music supremo’ pianist Al MacSween and virtuoso tabla player Sukhdeep Dhanjal is now available to tour nationally and internationally from May to December 2019.
READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE
New Year New Tour - Samia is thrilled to announce that in spring 2019 she will be touring the United States from coast to coast with the incredible Mallika Sarabhai of Darpana Arts:
Samia's music and voice,
Mallika and an international troupe of dancers, visuals by Yadavan Chandran....
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for the latest tour dates!
'Standout tracks’ are ‘truly moving original Urdu ghazals saturated with birha – melancholic longing’ Amardeep Dhillon Songlines
Touches the soul’ Debjani Chatterjee & Brian D’Arcy Writing in Education
'Wonderfully powerful' Alan Scott Resonance
‘In a world where we are becoming more attune to divisions, ‘Azaadi’ in fact celebrates difference, individualism and originality’ Aisha Farooq DESIblitz
‘Passionate and easily understood across international frontiers’ The Asian Times
‘A wake up call’ Sarwar Kashari Kashmir Images
'Extraordinary power and Joan Baez- like eloquence’ Geeta Doctor The Hindu
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Samia is busy with her tour of solo performances and songwriting workshops
in women's refuges and
organisations across the UK
- see 2018 dates and feedback here
'An amazing morning of self reflection and empowerment...thank you @samiamalikmusic
for your truly inspiring and moving songs' [email protected]