Dana Salah | |
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| Born | Dana Salah 1989 (age 34–35) [1] |
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| Years active | 2014 – present |
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| Origin | Amman, Jordan |
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| Website | danasalah |
Dana Salah (Arabic : دانا صلاح, IPA Arabic pronunciation: daː[b]naː[b] sˤ[e]laː[b]ħ) is a Jordanian-Palestinian singer, songwriter, and producer. [2]
Salah was born and raised in Amman, Jordan, where she started writing music at the age of 9. [3] Following her education at Duke University, she pursued her music career in New York City. [4]
Under the artist name King Deco, her single "Move That Body," garnered over 11 million streams on Spotify, reached #6 on the US iTunes Dance charts, and peaked at #25 on the Billboard Dance charts. [5]
She returned to Jordan in 2021 and released her first Arabic single, "Weino," under her own name and incorporated sounds of the Daf and other traditional Arab instruments. It generated over 1 million views in 3 months on YouTube and was added to more than 1000 personal playlists on Spotify. [6]
In 2022 Salah became a Spotify EQUAL ambassador, making her the first female Jordanian artist to be featured on a billboard in Times Square. [7]
In response to the Israel-Hamas War also known as the Gaza Genocide, 25 Middle Eastern and North African artists, including Salah, collaborated on the single Rajieen. [8] She also released her single "Ya Tal3een" [9] in response, based off the coded Palestinian folk song "Ya Taali’een ‘ala el-Jabal". [10]
Amman is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of four million as of 2021, Amman is Jordan's primate city and is the largest city in the Levant region, the fifth-largest city in the Arab world, and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East.
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