| Nemahsis | |
| Birth Name: | Nemah Hasan |
| Birth Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genre: | Pop |
| Years Active: | 2021–present |
Nemah Hasan, known professionally as Nemahsis, is a Palestinian Canadian singer-songwriter from Toronto, Ontario.[1]
Originally from the Toronto suburb of Milton,[2] Hasan began her career on TikTok, posting beauty and fashion videos aimed at Muslim women alongside occasional videos of her singing Adele covers.[1] After being exploited by a company that hired her for an advertising campaign and then failed to pay her, in June 2021 she released her first original single and video "What If I Took It Off for You?", about social attitudes toward Muslim women who wear the hijab.[3] She followed up with the singles "Paper Thin" in October 2021 and "Dollar Signs" in January 2022,[4] before releasing the EP eleven achers in March 2022.[5]
She followed up with the new non-EP singles "Criminal" in October 2022,[6] and "I Wanna Be Your Right Hand" in February 2023.[7]
On October 12, 2023, soon after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, the singer shared on social media that she had been dropped by her label after refusing to "cool-down" her performative activism through 'posts online displaying support of Palestine', which were widely condemned by the music industry and seen as anti-semitic.[8] Her subsequent posts include a rendition of Team, by New Zealand artist, Lorde[9] with images from Hamas-controlled Gaza before and after Israeli retaliation.[10]
The Canadian music magazine Exclaim! named eleven achers one of the 15 best Canadian EPs of 2022.[2]
Hasan and her songwriting colleagues Brendan Grieve and Stevie Solomon were nominated for the SOCAN Songwriting Prize in 2022 for "Paper Thin".[11] In 2023, the Prism Prize named Nemahsis the winner of the Hi-Fidelity Award for artists using music video in innovative ways.[12]