Nemahsis is the stage name of Nemah Hasan, a Palestinian Canadian pop singer from Toronto, Ontario.
Career
Originally from the Toronto suburb of Milton, Hasan began her career on TikTok, posting beauty and fashion videos aimed at Muslim women alongside occasional videos of her singing Adele covers. 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. She followed up with the singles "Paper Thin" in October 2021 and "Dollar Signs" in January 2022, before releasing the EP eleven achers in March 2022.
She followed up with the new non-EP singles "Criminal" in October 2022, and "I Wanna Be Your Right Hand" in February 2023.
Accolades
The Canadian music magazine Exclaim! named eleven achers one of the 15 best Canadian EPs of 2022.
Hasan and her songwriting colleagues Brendan Grieve and Stevie Solomon were nominated for the SOCAN Songwriting Prize in 2022 for "Paper Thin". In 2023, the Prism Prize named Nemahsis the winner of the Hi-Fidelity Award for artists using music video in innovative ways.
References
21st-century Canadian women singers
Canadian women pop singers
Canadian women singer-songwriters
Canadian TikTokers
Canadian people of Palestinian descent
People from Milton, Ontario
Musicians from Toronto
Living people
Canadian Muslims
Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters