Inside the world of Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna | ABCNL

ABC News' Zohreen Shah sat down with Elyanna, who will be the first singer to perform a full set in Arabic at the Coachella Music Festival.
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[@ignacio-sz3kk]

I’m Chilean and so proud of her ❤️🙏🇨🇱🇵🇸❤️

[@Ed.G]

She def made history by being first arabic singer to sing a full set at big international concert like Coachella. It’s a step to make Arabic music international as it def deserve more credit. Many famous stars like Shakira who is half arab used arabic music and belly dancing & arabic clothing as influences but never give credit to arabic culture Elyanna is not afraid of showing her pride of her arabic roots.

[@shyness8662]

true!

[@Aali-yahhernandeztorres]

Como que Shakira não dá crédito se ela literalmente tem influência da cultura árabe e sempre falou sobre isso????? Seu próprio nome é árabe

[@CA-gw8gf]

LOVE Her!!! My goodness - her voice is angelic God Bless You Ellyana!

[@yaqoubsaadeh3417]

so proud she’s representing palestine 🇵🇸

[@madrasaseries]

😍

[@billal-dz]

I see why Palestine is fucked up place . proud of whores ?

[@brahmaistrash.indiaisatoil5292]

With this bs ? She should help her people against the invaders

[@user-wq8fm9ed5y]

Proud??? This is haram, ya akhi. She does not represent Palestine one bit.

[@yaqoubsaadeh3417]

@@user-wq8fm9ed5y she’s half palestinian so she actually does represent palestine, she just doesn’t represent islam which she doesn’t need to..

[@SastimDokha_]

It's sad that so many people are hating on her and even calling her a disgrace to Palestinian culture just bc of the way she dresses and acts or for some of the things she says in songs and expect her to act and dress the way she wants she is Christian she can dress how she wants stop making expectations and expecting her to follow the rules and laws of islam. She is not muslim she does not need to present herself the way that u want her too. And for the people saying she doesn't represent Arab and Middle eastern culture bc she is Christian y'all need to learn history bc last time I checked Christianity originated in the Middle east

[@elizabethh.8002]

The misrepresentation of Arabs around the world is heartbreaking. Christianity ✝️ originated in Palestine. Jesus was a Palestinian Jew!

[@CA-gw8gf]

SHE IS AMAAAAZING!! I saw her perform live on her tour and WOW just WOW!!

[@j23lo5]

Her arabic songs are particularly moving. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@ubahmohyadin4503]

Please people, listen to her song called Olive branch. Literally made me cry.

[@TrueWalker88]

I have just discovered this sweet girl and I am an instant fan! She will go far and I wish her all the best. YGG, let that light shine ~ 💖

[@lukitasmol10]

❤ Long live South America and palestine

[@lifeshouldbebebetter7742]

Her hair so beautiful wow ❤️❤️❤️

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

So is mine 😉

[@kalyaamirouche6009]

Love love when she say " Palestine Nazareth" Free Plalestine and good luck to you Elyanna!

[@pandorasbox4238]

Beautiful, talented, and representing her ancestry... stunning. I love her voice. The addition of traditional instrumentation is magical.

[@Lindin80]

Spot on with it all. Took the words out of my fingers!

[@sarakay88]

I love her music and originality. True beauty

[@itprouk3685]

Palestinian talent and intelligence example

[@tamara_abran]

For the “haram police” out here saying she’s wearing inappropriately, SHES AN original orthodox Christian from a very well known orthodox Christian family in Palestine that always sang in church for choir. So y’all need to chill about judging others on “how modest” they dress. Do ur research and never judge. 🇵🇸❤💯

[@billal-dz]

Exactly, that’s why she doesn’t represent Arab culture. This is haram

[@Novgal]

@@billal-dz are you saying christian arabs are not arabs ? you realise that not all arabs are muslims right ? There are variety of religions and cultures in the Middle East not just the the culture of people living in your neighborhood!

[@user-uj8iy9tq9h]

​@@Novgal She is naked, in Arabs culture wither you are Muslim , christian, Jew you have to wear Descent clothes and not to shake your ass like awhore

[@MrFuadee]

❤❤❤

[@billal-dz]

​@@Novgal They are Arab, but they can represent their culture separately. only about 5% of araba are Christians, the majority are Muslims. The Islamic religion is against this BS.

[@deliabarrera510]

👏👏👏👏👏👏saludos desde Chile

[@user-ui3vu6rd2u]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@The.One.And.Only.Musab.]

Wallah I’m so proud of her, inshallah I’ll be there the 2nd Weeknd 🎉

[@billal-dz]

Woke

[@AAMM..]

😮

[@hannaelfar1816]

Love her confidence

[@allancarvajal6724]

so proud she is half chilean

[@danakhan7422]

Yes

[@user-db7dg9vc9z]

She is not ethnically Chilean but many Palestinians carry Chilean passport.

[@AMISRA2411]

@@user-db7dg9vc9z she lives in the states .It does not exist an ethnical palestinian either ))

[@yasminetaytay9067]

​@@AMISRA2411Just stop it. It's okay to be ignorant but you don't need to embarrass yourself, you zionazi 🤏🏻🧠

[@yasminetaytay9067]

​@@AMISRA2411✊🏻🌏❤🇵🇸

[@danakhan7422]

Legend ❤

[@retf054ewte3]

she looks amazing

[@kheaphey]

Congratulations.. love it 😁

[@RawanRawan-zl2fp]

So proud

[@ZahrahCute1990]

I am so proud of you.. i used to do that when i was 8 old .. writing a song on my room 😢 . Till i was 17 years old my daddy bring us back here in the philippines. I am a half Arabic and philipina ..And he is not supporting about our passion our art is to hard to have a Arabic father's 😢 but now I'm 33 years old i hope all girls dream came true 💖😮

[@tarmoutabiayre7758]

Art is peace 🎉, Peace on Earth 🌎

[@ChicagoILStateBabyGaza]

ما شالله الله يحميكم الله يحدينا

[@KHALEDIMWASI]

OUR QUEEN 🇵🇸

[@universal518]

I love her ❤❤

[@camilamoya4719]

🇨🇱 love you!!

[@AnSTruckService]

Good For Her, I don't understand the music nevertheless it moves my soul

[@HatGuy4]

Go girl. I’m so happy that she knows she doesn’t need to hide her true self. Arab representation👍👍

[@zakawadh8517]

i’m yemeni and so proud of Elyanna representing arabi music and Palestine 🇵🇸

[@ahmedabousaad841]

Funny , i am Palestinian and i don't feel proud of her .

[@artisthusnatalal3099]

I'm Yemeni I was there slowly to be like her. I started by entertaining women and in weddings and many of my Lebanese friends were telling me to go live in Lebanon and I'll be a very famous musician. But I was also never missing my night prayer at the same time. Through my night prayer Allah guided me and I stopped. I pray Allah to guide her and the rest

[@billal-dz]

yemeni and Woke? lol

[@billal-dz]

@@ahmedabousaad841 👊

[@mariajason3547]

@@ahmedabousaad841 Yes we know We expected actually...only her CHILEAN side will be supportive....

[@danakhan7422]

Queen ❤

[@billal-dz]

Haram

[@phdinmemery8427]

👑

[@franciscahammerschlag4103]

I wish you the best from Chile!

[@margueriteg5646]

She truly is an inspiration

[@elizabethh.8002]

Beautiful and talented! 🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸

[@SabberMolla-wi5mh]

Excellent 👌

[@someone-ib9uz]

Lovee thatttt

[@noufel1358]

Go elyanna we are proud of you

[@billal-dz]

we are not

[@noufel1358]

@@billal-dz Relax honey 😂😂 she a star your opinions does matter for her 😉

[@farahshanablih]

​@@billal-dz We are, you just hate the fact that she's Christian. And what you're doing is not what Islam teaches us, we're supposed to respect everybody not just muslims

[@billal-dz]

@@farahshanablih I don’t hate the girl. You are missing the point. All what I’m saying is that western media is trying to inject its agenda everywhere and wipe out the actual culture it gets into

[@aryanhassan4659]

​@@farahshanablih yeah.. you're a trolll

[@sbgrimsson]

When you sing in a foreign language you sing with your brain. But when you sing in your native tongue you sing with your heart.

[@palestinabaddie]

Beautiful Pali girl! 💗🇵🇸♡

[@ayo3085]

🇵🇸❤ From the river to the sea

[@palestinabaddie]

:3

[@someone-ib9uz]

Palestine will be free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@rainhawk5264]

F@ck pan-Arabs…. you crazy Semitic people claim illegally even cities in Anatolia from the occupying Turks even Anatolia was always Indo-European speaking Kurdish lands…

[@ghassandarwish5555]

برافو❤

[@rayasammari7286]

Super star ❤

[@hamzaelmoussaoui4935]

Queen ❤️

[@billal-dz]

Haram, you’re a Dayooth supporting this

[@s0ba310]

فخورة فيك ، انشري لغتنا و ثقافتنا للعالم و احنا ندعمك🇾🇪🇵🇸

[@anward-il6jc]

حررت فلسطين. بالعهر

[@mam264]

@@anward-il6jc العهر الفكري الي انتو فيه هو التعهر الحقيقي

[@shahad-sh6eh]

احبهااا

[@user-nx8eg8qv8u]

Wow she is Chilean and Palestinian mix. Exotic looking and Talented. It seems like she has embraced her Palestinian heritage and not so much of her Chilean.

[@samvel_mmiii]

Chile is the country with the biggest Palestinian Diaspora outside the Arab Countries

[@katiatannus3146]

Good for her

[@carolbautista1862]

❤

[@priscilladezambrano6592]

🇨🇱

[@exoot196]

❤❤❤

[@huhi7930]

I found her at coachella eyes opening hearing arab in coachella, if anyone have her setlist can share? I ask her fanbase at twitter they didn’t answer.

[@phdinmemery8427]

@Billal please touch grass

[@manueltroncosotoro4401]

Chilena/Palestina....Una bella combinación de culturas.... En Chile 🇨🇱 está la mayor comunidad Palestina del mundo....

[@ahedjumaa6674]

شكرا إليانا ❤ 🇵🇸

[@davidchiarappa4809]

So famous i love

[@nailaainous1784]

So beautiful to speak arabic

[@AMISRA2411]

Good she doesn’t say Allah uakbar

[@AMISRA2411]

Good she doesn’t say “Allah uakbar”🤣

[@AgnesTiku-dg3tw]

With famaly support every dream easy to reach and able to do.

[@suhelnafar2046]

Mabrook Elyanna!

[@billal-dz]

Mabruk the Haram?

[@AnastasiaDY]

@@billal-dz she's not muslim.

[@BaNDA-0]

आप अपना बेस्ट दे दुनिया आप को कोहिनूर बना देगी।

[@user-hw9ly4dn3z]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ramshamoon]

❤❤❤❤

[@nikkivn4219]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@saradigota7201]

She and rihanna should do a colabb!!!♡♡

[@salehbairat1553]

😍😍

[@carlopolanco2990]

Tiene la mezcla perfecta para brillar, la magia del medio oriente y el sabor de lo latino, será la nueva Shakira

[@danakhan7422]

The Arab liatino is so good like Salam haul , shakira

[@zeldatanit4346]

Es más árabe que shakira lol 😂

[@km-jd6ht]

Free Palestine🇵🇸🕊

[@mishleenkhoury7954]

So proud of her ❤

[@billal-dz]

Haram

[@phdinmemery8427]

Love from Lebanon 🇱🇧 ❤ 🇵🇸

[@mishleenkhoury7954]

@@billal-dz why haram

[@billal-dz]

@@mishleenkhoury7954 those are not our Arabic values. you shouldn't be proud of a girl who is promoting stuff like that.

[@ZX-wf5ju]

@@billal-dz they are christian DUH not all arabs are muslims

[@anagheemkh4750]

I love you❤❤❤

[@palestinabaddie]

baddie queen

[@spuriousnews1466]

🇵🇸

[@ShahJee101]

please listen her olive branch

[@rentakaofficial546]

From The River To The Sea , Palestine Will Be Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@halahab3788]

Her chilean genes tho 🤤

[@ytbbbbbb]

tqr

[@Faridylka]

Арабский язык очень красивый,и он должен стать языком международного общения.

[@DopeEgo]

what is she singing @4:00

[@sahra3022]

أصابك عشقٌ أم رميت بأسهم

[@sahra3022]

Not released yet

[@billal-dz]

Haram bs

[@Allinda.]

It's old Arabic poem in classical Arabic language. That's a Saudi singer sing it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pInSe3d-iqhpaas

[@abuesab97]

Awww! Love this!!!!

[@missliz85]

🤍

[@AliHussein-mm8km]

Amr diab

[@APOLO-oq3ce]

Go girl, you representing Africa too

[@billal-dz]

No thank you

[@lovenature1919]

What africa?

[@messi-mk3cq]

No! She doesn’t. Why would she represent us african, she is not Even african. WTF. 🤦‍♀️

[@linasaid374]

Maybe north africa😂

[@billal-dz]

Definitely not North Africa

[@jyp523]

Knicks in 4.

[@sammyhamawi6407]

The chile mnt has an iranian by the name of assadi

[@ridhasaniaracelina8170]

How about Ali gatie

[@mohasalmedeh2567]

She's an icon she is a legend AND SHE IS THE MOMENT very proud of her from yemen 🇾🇪💗🇵🇸

[@artisthusnatalal3099]

From Yemen too😃

[@s0ba310]

@@artisthusnatalal3099 and me😂😭

[@artisthusnatalal3099]

@@s0ba310 👍🤩

[@billal-dz]

Yamenee and Woke? lol

[@sammyhamawi6407]

Qatars mnt will play in the 2023 edition of the concacaf gold cup.

[@rayblox4859]

She is very cool to show her background and supporting it.

[@bellafawzi4694]

🇵🇸🇵🇸🍉🍉❤️

[@fatiefatie5276]

Shakira number 2

[@erna607]

She is the next Shakira !

[@ivanmartinez1757]

As part Moroccan and Hispanic I will be more proud of her if she embraces her Latin roots. She didn’t talk about her Latin roots is like she is denied it and cousin I will give you and advice, if you want to succeed in this country I will suggest you to care more about your Hispanic roots.

[@theconfusingchannel3170]

I don't think she has Hispanic roots...she holds a Chilean citizenship...but she is not ethnically Hispanic....

[@ivanmartinez1757]

@@theconfusingchannel3170 bro if she born there she is Chilean like or not.

[@theconfusingchannel3170]

@ivanmartinez1757 she is born in Palestine

[@nickreyes1725]

World has gone crazy

[@arafatsalahaldin207]

The new Rehana

[@madrasaseries]

Lily Rose Depp

[@Sriwijaya888]

Thats why I thought, she resembles her

[@madrasaseries]

😍

[@babsmart4449]

#FreePalestine

[@JA-xq6eq]

Not real news

[@sammyhamawi6407]

She should make a song with paloma mami

[@Gabster1990]

Is she the next Shakira?

[@messi-mk3cq]

To the haram police, she is Christian Palestinian/ and chilean (mix race).

[@imantali]

For your information this kind of attire is also forbidden in all religions not just Islam! Do your research! Salam

[@messi-mk3cq]

@@imantali i know. But Christian dont care about it as much as muslims do! She is palestinan Christian, and her mother is chilean also Christian. They dont care what she wears.

[@tocraneandcrane]

@@imantali "In all religions" lmao no way, there are at the very least over 4000 different religions in the world and even that number is believed to be higher in reality. There's no such thing as a universally agreed upon "forbidden attire", there's lots of different perspectives on clothing between the major religious groups of the world. Abrahamic religions aren't the only religions in the world you know lol, and even they have their differences. As for Elyanna, how she chooses to dress or her personal relationship with her faith is absolutely no business of yours whatsoever. All you know is that she was born into a Palestinian Christian family, that's it.

[@imantali]

Please read my comment again! I stated that all religions forbid this form of clothing and I still stand firm by that. And yes she can choose to wear whatever she wants! Please do not confuse religion with people’s choices!