Artist Spotlight: Amaal talks self-love and her journey to finding herself

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Amaal's origin story will be familiar to many. Her parents, a teacher and a pilot from Mogadishu, Somalia, fled their country in amidst the outbreak of the civil war in the early nineties. After spending some time in Alabama, they landed and settled in Toronto. "[Alabama] didn't last very long, it was not a place my parents felt very comfortable," Amaal tells me over the phone. "And Canada had this amazing reputation…to be just a safe haven and open door for people of different ethnicities." Thankfully, Toronto has lived up to that reputation, and in doing so has allowed us to nurture a truly promising female R&B artist.

Source: Hiiraan Online