Muslim music
A new wave of Muslim music
Muslim boy bands
Muslim band Native Deen
Muslim band Native Deen
Native Deen and Seven8Six are two American Muslim bands, who
perform to sell-out audiences across the world and have a
fast-growing fanbase in Britain. They are part of a new wave
of Muslim, or Nasheed, music, which allows the current
generation of Muslims to engage with pop music while staying
true to the principles of Islam.
Both the bands have a fusion of styles, but Native Deen are
often classed as a Hip Hop group, while Seven8Six are more
R'n'B. The latter's slick, boy band appeal has won them a
lot of admirers, particularly among young girls, but that's
also causing them a few problems with more conservative
elements of the Muslim community.
Small Deeds (3:42 mins)
Native Deen
Ya Allah (3:21 mins)
Seven8Six
Issues came to a head in August 2006, when the two bands
were flown to the UK by the Islamic Forum Europe, to take
part in a major Islamic event at Manchester's MEN Arena.
Seven8Six had no sooner landed than they were dropped from
the line-up of the Manchester event by the very organisers
who had paid for their visit. Although the band was never
given a reason, it was understood that, for at least some of
the event's organisers, a band consisting of five single,
good looking, westernised young men in their twenties was
projecting the wrong sort of image of Islam and attracting
the wrong sort of attention.
There are certain individuals that have issues with our
image. I think you can't blame them, because its almost one
of those things which is so new that you see five guys who
dress like everyone else, who've got spiky hair and they get
up and sing about being Muslim and proud of it and that's
not what has been traditionally seen. It's been the long
robes and big beards, which is... nothing wrong with that,
but... our religion teaches us that you can't judge a book
by its cover. So, that's one of the things that we're trying
to get across: you can't make a judgement on this guy
walking down the street, because he doesn't have a beard or
he's not wearing a kufi on his head. You don't know what is
in his heart.Shahaab from Seven8Six
Long live Seven8Six! They're very close to us. Sometimes, we
call them our younger brothers, because they used to listen
to us when they were a little bit younger and I think we
helped inspire them to do it themselves. They have beautiful
voices and they've gotten some problems before. They are
attractive guys they have beautiful voices and so it gets a
certain response from the audience and maybe a lot of the
women in the audience and sometimes maybe organisers don't
want to be associated with that. Maybe that's looking too
mainstream, [but] the brothers are doing this for the same
reasons that Native Deen is: we want to get this message out
there we want to inspire people.Joshua from Native Deen
Image is a big deal to us. We really try to make sure that
we carry ourselves in a manner that's appropriate and
according to rules of Islam, but also still true to our
identity as youth in western society, and a lot of times I
think that people start to look at that and say, 'Well,
these guys, they're too young and too hip and too cool.' And
I think a lot of times we lose credibility because of that
and it hurts, because you never want to be judged as based
on your image, what you look like, and a lot of times that's
gotten us in trouble. The real good fortune for us is, when
we do go to events, people can see that beyond the spiky
hair and the jeans that these are five guys that are
actually sincere, and if you actually listen to the words of
what they say that it actually means something positive.
That, to us, is more important than image.Zafur from
Seven8Six
Despite the best efforts of their manager to get the
Seven8Six re-instated to the line-up, the band weren't
allowed to play. Events then took a turn for the worse as
the band, and their manager, were even refused entrance to
the MEN Arena as paying members of the audience.
Several fans were left disappointed and confused as to why
the band didn't appear. Naseem Younis, mother of 11 year old
fan Jinan, said, “Nobody really understood why they weren't
performing. There wasn't an explanation. They just announced
that they weren't performing without saying why. And there
was definitely an “Ahhh” from the whole audience, because
many people had come to see them.”
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