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If SoundCloud, as a platform, has become synonymous with any genre of music, its undoubtedly rap.
Yet for most of the past month, the most-streamed song on SoundCloud wasnt by a rapper.
Namira is 37 years old, over twice the age of many a bubbling SoundCloud rapper.
Unlike SoundCloud R&B, none of his singing bears the slightest influence of hip-hop.
His fans are clearly from somewhere else.
A closer look at Namiras career shows his current success to be anything but surprising.
Namiras music was, quite literally,the soundtrack to a revolution.
Events would prove the hope to be mistaken.
The seaside setting of the video and boy protagonist harkens back to the Ehlam Maaya video.
