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*Yasmine (born Antwerp March 3, 1972 - june 25, 2009) was a Flemish singer who sang in Dutch. Her real name is Hilde Rens. Yasmine released her first CD (Mooi zo) in 1991. She has made various adaptations of Leonard Cohen songs, translated into Dutch. She was also one of two hosts of the VRT's De rode Loper on één. After some severe personal issues, not in the least the break up with her wife Marianne Dupon, at the end of april 2009, she decided to end her life in june of the same year. *Yasmine (Kontich, 3 maart 1972...

ياسمين حمدان (Romanized: Yasmine Hamdan) is a Lebanese singer, songwriter and actress, now based in Paris. She became known with Soapkills, the duo she founded with Zeid Hamdan while she was still living in Beirut. Yasmine Hamdan joined forces with Marc Collin (Nouvelle Vague (band)) to write and produce her first, self-titled solo album, which came out in France and Lebanon in 2012 on Kwaidan Records), and is released internationally (in a revised version with five new tracks) in 2013 by Crammed Discs under the title Ya Nass. In this album, which blends pop, folk and electronic sounds with melodies...

Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. His father was involved with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother was a teacher at a large girls high school in Kabul. In 1970, the Foreign Ministry sent his family to Tehran, Iran, where his father worked for the Afghan embassy. In 1973 Hosseini and his family returned to their home city of Kabul. In July 1973, Hosseini's youngest brother was born. This was the same time Afghan power changed hands through a bloodless coup. In 1976, Khaled Hosseini's father got a job in Paris, France and he moved his family to Paris....

COURTNEY YASMINEH www.courtneyyasmineh.com Meet An Emerging New Artist Who Writes and Plays Lively Alt-Rock and Indie Pop with Her Band — Plus Even A Little Folk and Gospel Authenticity and character in rock some 60 years into the fray are getting harder to see and more challenging to believe. But you can see and hear — and believe both — about the emerging artist Courtney Yasmineh, whether it's in her cogent body of work over three-and-half albums, or in her bewildering back story that continues to inform Yasmineh's convincing amalgam of alternative rock, folk, pop and even a little gospel...